The memorial arch erected to the memory of the thirteen missionaries of the American Board of Boston, who suffered matyrdom in China in 1900 was dedicated at Oberlin last week.
IN
view of the change in the date of Communion service in the branch churches from June 14 to July 12, the following will be the order of the lessons:—
THE
announcement that the Great Seal of the United States is to be recut, and that during the process the government employs a greater force of inspectors to keep an eye on the single workman than in the construction of a five-million-dollar battleship, gives added interest to the following sketch of the history of the seal, and its use, which we have taken from the columns of the Boston Transcript.
EDNA WADSWORTH HUDSON
with contributions from HENRY WILDER FOOTE
A shadow, that is all, A dream or an illusion; A sense of mistiness, Of mistake or confusion; It's just a thought which doth appear to be, When something seems between thy God and thee!
MARY IRVING KEITH
with contributions from DEAN STANLEY
Waste not the time men call "to-day," Spurn not the things at hand; The future holds no recompense For those who idly stand And wait The chances of a better fate.
JESUS'
suggestive words, "How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!" have been supposed to appeal especially to those who, like the rich young man, have large wealth; but when these words are considered in the light of the Master's other saying, "A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth;" they come to have a meaning which is of much broader application.
THE
need of knowing, as well as the certainty of knowing the truth has shown me recently the necessity of taking a higher step, and of absolute reliance upon God, divine Principle.
DURING
a recent snow and sleet storm, which prostrated the telegraph and telephone lines, and caused the newspapers to print scarehead warnings against "live wires," one of our officials, in walking toward the station, overtook a man standing in the snow in apparent distress.
"WE
can do more good by being good than in any other way," says Rowland Hill, and he thus embodies a thought, which has come down the ages with all the force given it by the impetus of Jesus' example, and which is to-day reiterated and emphasized in the life of one whom Christian Scientists love and revere.
When the subject of Christian Science was presented to me a little more than six years ago, it did not appeal to me because of its healing qualities, it came to me as "a beautiful teaching.
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