WHY MAJOR WENT TO CHURCH
I once visited a pleasant countryhouse, the owner of which had a powerful and sagacious dog, called Major. This dog was highly prized by his master and by the people of the neighborhood. He had sav...
AN INVOCATION
Hear our prayer, oh gracious Father, Author of celestial good, That Thy laws, so pure and holy,May be better understood. As the dew, before the sunlight, Melts, and fadeth from our sight, So may e...
THE STORY OF THE ASS WITH TWO EARS
Once upon a time there was an Ass who was a very good Ass, but whose life were very agitated. This was because of a little difficulty of hearing, with which he was afflicted. When his right ear hea...
Agates
According to Demetrius, Truth lies at the bottom of a well, whose depth, alas! gives little hope of a release. To be sure, one advantage to be derived from this is, that the water serves for a mirr...
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
I have suffered with violent headaches for over eight years. At first they were only occasional; but as they grew more and more frequent I resorted to various remedies, without avail. During the la...
Letters
METAPHYSICAL HEALINGSays Jesus: "Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven."Says Agassiz: "Every scientific truth g...
JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS
Dear Journal: About seven years ago I was attacked with a disease the physicians called Loss of Motion, for want of a better name. The disease began in my feet, and gradually worked up until it rea...
MORPHINE-HABIT CURED
For fifteen years I have had a stomach-trouble, which baffled the skill of the best physicians in New Hampshire. Medicine failed to remove the cause of the most distressing vomiting spells, which w...
ADDRESS OF WELCOME
Delivered by Dr. E. N. Harris, C.S.B., to the Delegates convened at the First Annual Meeting of the National Christian Scientist Association, held in Boston, April 13 and 14, 1887.Mrs. President, a...
AN ACROSTIC
Life,—whence flows eternal beauty, Inspiration, faith, and duty,— Frame our thoughts aright, that weEmblem of that Life may be. Truth—may Thy fair buds, unfolding Round our pathway, help in mouldi...