Beneath the superficiality and sham, the pride and prejudice of mortal sense, there is an inherent love for the genuine, the beautiful and the good, which witnesses ever and again for the image of God; and false fetters of educated belief and conventional habit are cast aside as the husks that they are, —the higher consciousness, the true man, claiming his own.
THE
story of Abraham, as given in Genesis, is of profound interest, showing, as it does, what is possible to one of large and noble character in the most trying circumstances and with no guidance save that of the divine Mind.
Modern Medicine, in its review of the recommendation recently made by Sir Lauder Brunton, an eminent English physician and surgeon, that certain drugs be administered for the purpose of counteracting the effects of irritating occurrences and depressing news, advances the opinion that in certain cases of bad temper "moral remedies are necessary as well as physical," but it does not advise how nor by whom these moral remedies shall be administered.
IN
moments of doubt and despondency, men often express the wish that they might again possess the simple faith of their childhood, and the general thought of the impossibility of its fulfilment renders this longing deeply pathetic.
BETWEEN
thirty and forty years ago, advanced thinkers began to urge the necessity for progressiveness in religion as well as in all else, and some preachers courageously echoed this sentiment, even at the risk of being accounted heretics for so doing.
THERE
are few errors of human sense which are more general in their distribution, or more persistent in their hold, than is that of mental laziness, —the inertia which is averse to hard work, and which seems to be indigenous to all countries and climates, and all conditions of men.
As
the years pass, material theories of God and man prove their inadequacy; the heart of humanity cries out after "the living and true God" and can be satisfied with nothing less.
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The
following news item, which we copy from The Toronto Daily Star, marks the close of another prosecution of Christian Scientists in the Canadian courts.