Before
the gray winds come and the birds go; while yet buckwheat bloom is sweet to the bees and the rising sun awakens nymphaea on the bosom of the misty pond; while yet the fields are fragrant with rowen clover, and the grouse and the wood-hen cluck to their late broods in the hazel thickets; while the lush greens of summer still possess the fields and crown the hills with sumptuous repose in the long day—in short, just now, let us give grateful praise to the uncommon loveliness of the season.
Hearing
frequently of instances where over-zealous, well-intentioned Christian Scientists have unwisely presented thoughts of truth, in their impetuous desire to lead sufferers and seekers to its light, one is very forcibly reminded of the injunctions to bridle the tongue and to let our light so shine before men that they may see our good works and glorify our Father in heaven.
"Till
we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ".
The
practical efficiency of Christian Science in the adjustment of business difficulties is being daily testified to by thousands, and the experiences which follow are of the many which could be told.
It has been shown by actual count, by a professor at the University of Minnesota, that a two-year-old child may use in a day more than two thousand different words, repeating each of them, of course, from two or three times up to three hundred and fifty times, so that the total number spoken may reach ten thousand.
