The
following is a copy of the most memorable judicial sentence which has ever been pronounced in the annals of the world—that of the death sentence against the Saviour, with remarks which Le Droit has collected, and the knowledge of which must be interesting in the highest degree to every Christian.
In
that darkest hours of slavery, just before the dawn of freedom, how dreary must the future have seemed to many a negro mother, as she sat in the stillness crooning a cheerless song to her drowsy babe! The tears must have often dimmed her eyes, as she thought of the life of bondage into which her child had come, with no prospect of happiness before it, unless its owners should chance to be kind-hearted.
The
first Christian Science church established in the South was dedicated in Atlanta, April 2, in the presence of a large congregation of interested people, among whom were a number of distinguished guests from a distance.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.
Those
who are familiar with Bulwer Lytton's famous tale of "The Coming Race," in which he pictures an ideal state in human progress, can readily appreciate how far his ideal is surpassed by every-day life in Christian Science.
The
corner-stone of the new Temple being erected by Second Church of Christ, Scientist, at 68th Street and Central Park West, New York City, was laid on Easter morning at seven o'clock.
We
learn from the Boston papers that scores of people have left the Chelsea churches to go over to "that peculiar people known as Christian Scientists," at the door of one of whom an effort has been made to place the responsibility for the death of a Chelsea woman who preferred Christian Science treatment, she being in her right mind at the time, to that of a regular medical practitioner.
I believe it is not only proper, but our duty, to acknowledge benefits received, from whatever source they may come, and in making this acknowledgment, it is with the thought it may meet the eye of some one who is bound with the same chains of slavery that I was bound with.
Before our lecture came, I was thinking of the good I knew it would accomplish, and how I hoped I should be ready for any work presenting itself, afterward.
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