Stung by Hornets
In July of last year, my little daughter, four years old, walked into a hornet's nest in a blueberry swamp, and was quickly covered by the hornets. She was very badly stung, before anyone could rea...
Given up to Die
Mrs. B. was given up by several physicians; at the longest not over two months allotted for life here. Some called it change of life; some, humors in stomach; some cancer in stomach, liver complain...
Humbug about Meat
The belief in meat is ubiquitous with the Anglo-Saxon. No one can be strong without meat, it is asserted. "Many people seem to look upon meat almost as though it formed the only food that real...
Holy Character and Happy Life
God has a host who measure the strength and completeness of their union with Him by their holy living, rather than by their high emotions. As saintly as Paul, or Wesley, or Fletcher, or Carvosso, o...
ON TIME
Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race; Call on the long, leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's face; And glut thyself with what thy womb devours, Which is no more t...
"SING UNTO HIM A NEW SONG."
Song, or music, has always exerted a wonderful, incomprehensible power, which men have long endeavored to understand and define. The early Greeks recognized this power, and worshiped it in the form...
But man, proud man,
But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured. His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, As make the a...
THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE
Thoughts suggested in answer to an inquiry by one who is seeking to learn the application of Truth, whereby sickness as well as sin may be overcome.It is a principle in Science, that to reach a cor...
A CARD
I celebrated my seventy-first birthday at my home, on Feb. 3, 1887. I am hale and hearty, thanks to Christian Science. I believe it to be the grandest Truth, the most beneficial to health and purif...
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...