The
project of separating the continents of North and South America, and establishing free navigation between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by a ship canal through the Central American isthmus, is by no means of recent origin.
"If it were attempted to run a line through society which should separate the wise from the foolish," says the Christian Register, "probably no two persons could be found who would agree as to just where that line should lie.
As our periodicals appear at their appointed times, monthly, weekly, and quarterly, keeping us supplied with messages from Christian Science and Christian Scientists, the fact that we can have so much done for us in return for so small an effort on our part becomes more and more apparent and also more wonderful.
As growth in Christian Science implants in the consciousness of each student the beautiful images of thought which Truth places there in the room vacated by the thoughts which we had cherished as real until their worthlessness became apparent to us from the opening of our eyes which had been blinded, we see through thought's vistas views above any that we had imagined.
In Holman Hunt's great picture, "The Shadow of Death," which represents Jesus as a young man in the carpenter's shop stretching himself at the close of a weary day, and with his outspread arms making the shadow of a cross on the wall, there is a minor feature that is full of suggestion.
At
the last regular Wednesday night testimonial meeting of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, in the auditorium of the Pepper Building, a number of interesting personal testimonials as to the efficacy of Christian Science in healing mental and physical ailments was given.