PROSPECTUS
The ancient Greek looked longingly for the Olympiad; the Chaldee watched the appearing of a star, to him no higher revelation than the horoscope hung out upon empyrean. But the meek Nazarene, the s...
SYMPATHY
Step not within the shrine where sitteth sacred grief, With cheek as pale As his, who but an hour ago, like autumn leaf Before the gale, Outpoured his momentary thrill of life, so brief!...
A CASE OF FAITH CURE
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...
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
"Must I have faith in Christian Science in order to be healed by it?"This a question that is being asked every day. We have not found it impossible to heal those who, when they commenced...
THE OAK ON THE SUMMIT
Ah! solemn mountain at whose feet I stand, Clouds do adorn thy brow, skies clasp thy hand; Nature and God, in harmony profound,With peaceful presence have begirt thee round. And thou majestic...
TOO MUCH WILL POWER
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...
SLANDER
What has an individual gained by losing his own self respect? Or what has he lost when retaining his own, he loses the homage of fools, or the pretentious praise of hypocrites, false to themselves...
He that never doubted the existence of...
He that never doubted the existence of matter, may be assured he has no aptitude for metaphysics.—Yurgot.
A TIMELY ISSUE
An organ from the Christian Scientists has become a necessity. Many questions come to the College and to the practising students, yet but little time has been devoted to their answer. Further enlig...
AN EASTERN ITEM
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...