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Our speculative theories on health admit that food sustains the life of man, and then discuss the certainty that food can kill a man. —It is not the body, but mortal mind, that says food is undigested, that the gastric juices, the nervous tissues, and mucous membranes are diseased.

The common adulterations of bread are —alum, sand, sulphate of copper, rice, potatoes. These create dyspepsia and diarrhœa.

Text: "Ye do greatly err, not knowing the scripture, nor the power of God. " Matt.

The scepticism of the age strikes deep. It asks not merely, Is the Bible inspired? but, Have we a Bible? It not only questions whether a miracle is possible; it demands whether the Christian religion is supernatural.

The science of Mind explains cause and effect, lifts the veil of mystery from soul and body, reveals the scientific relation of God to man, unwinds the interlaced ambiguities of being, sets free the imprisoned thought, and explains the divine Principle of man and of the universe. — M.

I rejoice to bear testimony to the blessed worth of the Science I found my faith upon. It bears unmistakable evidence of being the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ, brought out more fully practicable than by any other presentation of religious thought since the early Christian period; and when understood, gives to every earnest worker proofs of its divine origin in its application to the healing of disease and sin.

"In the beginning;" when the particles of nebulous matter without form and void, were moulded into earth, when the spirit of good drew aside the curtains of long night, calling light, life, and beauty into being with the trees and flowers, the grasses and herbs, and giving life to all animated creation, He said, "Let us make man in our image, and after our likeness. " "So God created man in His own image.

From the Standard: "There is a sort of science that assumes to ignore the spiritual. But really, does not science, by such disowning, stab itself? There is much in the natural world that can not be seen, heard or felt, but it includes in itself that which is the most real and most powerful.

"Still behind the steps I hear Of my life-companion Fear," writes even the poet. Fear, it is the Atlas that bears the world upon its shoulders.

"The paramount issue of the present campaign," we are told, "is moral rather than political," and "the whole question hinges on the moral character of the presidential candidate. " If these words are true and the coming election is to be decided in accordance with them, how much encouragement is given us to go on, hoping all things, enduring all things! If the great clan of politicians are forced to admit that a man cannot be nominated and elected to office on account of public services or ability, unless his private character supports his candidacy, a great step has been gained.