The
patience, faithfulness, and intelligence of "man's knowing friend" are nowhere more conspicuously shown than in the handling of sheep, and in the north of England the training of sheep-dogs has become really a fine art.
God
is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever, no matter how uncertain, finite, or inadequate may be the terms used to explain Him, or how sacrilegious or idolatrous the mortal mind pictures may be that seek to satisfy human desire and finite senses by making a God in the image of man.
"It is well known," says the Revue Scientifique, "that certain spiders can be transported by the wind, owing to a very light silken thread that they emit from the spinneret which is blown along by an ascending current of air.
The
"limited express" with its burden of humanity sweeps past on its time-exterminating, space-destroying mission, grand in us triumph of mechanics, regal in its luxurious appointments, proud in its relations to commerce, to government, and to social life.
The
following paragraph from a private letter voices a thought which is most heartily appreciated by those who have been called to arrange the Bible Lessons.
In a recent circular to the Branch Churches, issued by the Board of Lectureship, the request is renewed that after deeming upon a lecture, the churches give the lecturer as early notice as may be, so that it may be possible to effect an economy of time and expense.
Healed
by Christian Science ten years ago of a tumor on my eyelid which nearly closed my eye and which had been removed three times by surgical operations, each time returning with conditions more alarming than the first, I rejoice to say that it has not returned since, and it cannot, for God is the healer.
Obviously
the Christian minister who is unable to comprehend the works of Christ Jesus as included in the doctrine that sin and sickness are healed by one and the same method, and that both have mental causation, is at a serious disadvantage in reclaiming the sinner.
While the changes are going on which have been brought about through the wise suggestion of our Leader in regard to rotation in office, it may be a help to remember that in the cycles of the harmonious activity of infinite Mind, the forever unfolding of Truth's ideas, each individual man has his own place, his own work, his own development, his own individuality, and that he never has had and never can have another's place, any more than he can possess the individual consciousness of any one else, because the individuality of God is expressed in the individual identity of every man.
I should be very ungrateful to God if I did not thus publicly thank Him for this great proof of His love, and at the same time did not acknowledge my gratitude to that noble, unselfish woman, Mary Baker G.
Isabella M. Stewart
with contributions from Rosina B. Willis
In looking over a heap of letters to see what could be torn up, I came across one which gave such a good demonstration of the power of Truth to meet every condition of error that I decided to write it out for the Sentinel.
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