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"Faith with Works"

with contributions from Mary

Many spiritually minded men and women in this age, like Simeon and Anna of olden time at the birth of Jesus, waiting and watching for the Mind of Christ to more fully possess them, are bidding "All Hail" to the spiritual idea now dawning upon us, the promised Comforter of our Master—Christian Science, so named by its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker G.

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The Phoenix

BY EDWARD EVERETT NORWOOD

From the land of ancient Egypt,On the banks of storied Nile,Comes a lesson, old and musty,To keep our hearts from guile.

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Religious Items

Speaking of the Ecumenical Conference to be held in New York next April the Church Standard says one of the special features will be a missionary exhibit.

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Weapons not Carnal

When in the year 254 an epidemic broke out in Carthage, the Christians, answering an appeal made to them by the venerable Cyprian, though they had just suffered a violent persecution, by their zeal and self-denying courage saved the city from pestilence.

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An Interesting Incident

N. B. E.

An incident of much interest occurred at our State Prison on Sunday, Dec.

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Is Death a Saviour?

BY E. F. V.

Many people are taught that some glad day our Heavenly Father, in the holy purpose of His will, will send His messenger, Death, to claim our suffering friends; and if they are Christians they will be ushered into Heaven and be made free from all physical ailments.

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A Little Child's Faith

BY MRS. MELVIN GRIMES.

When the Thirteenth Minnesota Volunteers marched away, there went with them, as one of their number, a young brother of mine, a boy of scarcely eighteen.

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Why I am a Christian Scientist

BY J. W. RUSSELL.

To me religion was nothing but an undefinable superstition.

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The Immutable Promises

Ross C. Houghton

Some Christians, as in time of trial they look at one of God's promises, are like an old man, a friend of mine, when he first looked upon the narrow suspension bridge just overhanging the falls of Niagara, with the raging, foaming water far beneath.