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Sir Humphrey Davy, when a young man, had an experience which serves to illustrate the nature of healing by faith. Davy was employed by Dr. Beddess, who had an extravagant theory of the curative pow...

Three or four citizens were having a confab at the door of the town hall, in regard to will power, and there was one of the group who dared go far enough to assert that a man of will power could dr...

There is an eastern story of a Sultan who overslept himself, so as not to waken at the hour of prayer. So Satan came and waked him, and told him to get up and pray. "Who are you?" said th...

"What are our joys but dreams? and what our hopes, But goodly shadows in the summer cloud? There's not a wind that blows, but bears with it Some rainbow promise. Not a moment flies...

We are ready to meet the profound thinker on the statement, that all is mind; and if this is divine science, as will be proven, it will at length destroy all human error, whereas the conservative t...

A knowledge of matter leads not to the establishment, but to the destruction of materialism; matter itself denies its own supremacy and bears witness to something beyond and above itself.—N. A. Rev...

I. Where Midian's hoary mountains in rugged grandeur climb, And rule her desert solitude in majesty sublime, Through lonely wilds and gorges, by springs among the rocks,The exiled seer, a...

Fleffel, an old writer, is chargeable with the following sonnet:— Well they are gone: my fortune first departed, And then my right good friends went after it: Departing likewise, as the swallows fl...

All pleasures must be bought at the price of pain. The difference between false pleasure and true, is just this: for the true, the price is paid before you enjoy it; for the false after you enjoy i...