The
historic old missions of California, relics of a picturesque past and monuments of the earliest civilization on the Pacific coast, are to be preserved.
The
National Educational Association at its recent annual meeting "resolved" that it would be well if the Bible might be studied in the public schools as literature; the implication.
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.
