The
corner-stone of the new Temple being erected by Second Church of Christ, Scientist, at 68th Street and Central Park West, New York City, was laid on Easter morning at seven o'clock.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.
Those
who are familiar with Bulwer Lytton's famous tale of "The Coming Race," in which he pictures an ideal state in human progress, can readily appreciate how far his ideal is surpassed by every-day life in Christian Science.
In
that darkest hours of slavery, just before the dawn of freedom, how dreary must the future have seemed to many a negro mother, as she sat in the stillness crooning a cheerless song to her drowsy babe! The tears must have often dimmed her eyes, as she thought of the life of bondage into which her child had come, with no prospect of happiness before it, unless its owners should chance to be kind-hearted.
The
following is a copy of the most memorable judicial sentence which has ever been pronounced in the annals of the world—that of the death sentence against the Saviour, with remarks which Le Droit has collected, and the knowledge of which must be interesting in the highest degree to every Christian.
Several months ago I received a telegram from a distant part of this State to treat a two-year-old baby for flux, and just one hour after I had received the telegram the baby was healed and at her play.
