The habit of hiding coin and other valuables in secret, out-of-the-way places, seems to have been very general in past times when security vaults were unknown and pillages were frequent.
It is gradually dawning upon engineers the world over that the world's coal supply is not likely to last forever, and that the time is not very far distant when artificial fuel must be resorted to.
What a wonderful example of Christian courage and childlike faith was manifested by Chrysostom, who, when threatened banishment by the Roman Emperor, said : "Thou canst not, for the world is my Father's house; thou canst not banish me.
If
Christian Scientists do not watch the "little things," but allow them to pass undiscovered, these "little things" become avenues for error to effect its work later on, and they will then wonder why it is that they are having "such a hard time.
An
esteemed contemporary has recently well said that, "Many of our church methods and practices which have grown venerable with age, need to be treated as Hezekiah treated the brazen serpent that Moses had made.
