A BEDTIME SONG
Sway to and fro in the twilight gray,— This is the ferry for Shadowtown. It always sails at the end of day,Just as the darkness is closing down. Rest, little head, on my shoulder,—so! A sleepy kis...
AMONG THE LAKES
Your card is at hand, which informs me that mine, containing ten dollars, was not received. I was comparatively at ease concerning its loss; except being decidedly tried with myself, for having ris...
LITTLE CHILDREN
Candid and curious, how they seek All truth to know and scan; And ere the budding mind can speak, Begin to study man. Confiding sweetness colors all they say,And angels listen when they try to pra...
HOW THE GRAIN WAS PICKED UP
In one of our New England towns there lived a little girl whom we will call Minnie. She was left an orphan in earliest infancy. In process of time the babe found a welcome in the home of a farmer i...
HEROD AND THE STAR
In the Gospels we read, in connection with the first Christmas, of the Star which guided the Wisemen, or Magians, to the manger where lay the newborn Jesus, in Mary's arms.God speaks to us today, a...
LOVE'S MESSAGE
A fair little girl climbed up in a tree, "To see how Heaven looked," she said. Small notice she took of the long ascent,Seeing only the sky o'erhead. She mounted far up to the topmost br...
SPIRITUAL PERIL
There comes to our notice, from time to time, reports that Christian Science is a dangerous study, inasmuch as it unfolds the Scriptural fact that God is too pure to behold iniquity, notwithstandin...
Agates
The meek are not those who are never angry, for such are insensible; but those who, feeling anger, control it, and are angry when they ought to be. Meekness excludes revenge, irritability, morbid s...
OVARIAN TUMOR
Dear Journal: I wish to write you of my experience. I am willing the whole world should know that I once walked in darkness, but now I see a great light; once I was blind, but now I can see.Knowing...
Agates
To be a Christian, means a great deal more than believing in certain doctrines, going to church, or even talking about religion. It means living it. It means having Christ in every deed. We can not...