It
is generally conceded that education is not a pouring in, nor a storing away of information in the human mind, but rather the drawing out and setting in motion of the latent capabilities of the individual; that it is the building up and rounding out of true character,—cherishing and expanding those primal elements of real manhood and womanhood that make for righteousness, that enable one to be and to do that which is highest and best.
It
would seem that the United States, with its extensive coast line on the Atlantic and Pacific and its numerous harbors from Maine to Florida and from Washington to southern California, had already a sufficiency of seaports, but there are citizens of Chicago who seem to think otherwise, and who have given evidence of their faith, not only in their city but in the future of this country, by building and launching several steamers for salt water service.
The
grand privilege of the Christian Scientist is the understanding that Spirit ever demonstrates its allness, and that matter ever demonstrates its nothingness through the false claim to the spiritual.
In
August, 1899, there was one copy each of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and "Miscellaneous Writings" in the library of the Illinois State Penitentiary located at Joliet, Ill.
