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November 3, igog.
and every other kind 1
same reports to make o
arcs. If the patient
"helped"; and if he dies
enough or lacked some
subject are people so ea:
ter of cures, and 011 110
lakes.
It is thought that "
Christian Science since
persuades its victims o
however, spread as rap
are numerous now hav
first few years, when al
they get a good start, tl
There are fools enough
he made for faith in err
cause some dupes are ii
lrnth or ualup of tlipir m
intelligent persons are r
telligent only among tl
they generally act with*
intelligence they have is
take their religion on fa
ignorant, so take it be<
who investigate is small
THE BETTE
In the "British Weekl
lowing question:
E. W. E.?"I have 1.
twenty years of age, i
We were always strong
and more sr? a<s hp mi
Christian. He was cut
promised to be a life c
is a sore trial, yet I am
in a Christian spirit. C
which you think would
There is no book of
New Testament, and il
any specific passage a
life and death and the
view of what Christ ha
nity. It is frequently b
in which so many who
have in the presence
minds are and how littl
gospel. I confess that
consolatory literature v
do like Elizabeth Wat
and Death," and there
"On Death and the 1
Smith's "Dreamthorp."
not brace us and chalh
may somewhat avail yc
to me with a sorrow lik<
truths which we are ap
1. You are not alone
universal lot of the ch
consolation of philosop
Schiller, "can not be ai
haps you feel that this
V
THE PRESBYTERIA
ol practitioner has about the
f his cases. None report failis
not cured, he is at least
, he did not take the cure long
necessary faith in it. On no
sily humbugged as in the matsubject
do they so readily try
mere must dc sometinng in
it spreads rapidly and easily
f its merits. False religions,
idly as true ones. None that
e risen slowly except for the
1 are necessarily slow. When
liey become almost irresistible,
to supply all demands that can
or when sensational. And beitelligent
is no evidence of the
ligion. As stated, the so-called
nostly shallow and pass for inlie
ignorant. On this subject
3ut investigation, so that what
not used. Christian Scientists
ith. The "intelligent," like the
:ause others do. The number
i.?Christian Advocate.
:r life beyond.
y" we find an answer to the foljst
a very dear and good son.
,vho was my right-hand man.
jly attached, and getting more
rly in life developed a strong
down on the threshold of what
>f great usefulness. To me it
anxious to fight manfully and
'an A'ou refer me to some book
be Uelptul:'"
consolation comparable to the
:s comfort lies not so much in
s in its general conception of
attitude which it inculcates, in
s done, toward Time and Eterorne
in upon me by the manner
call themselves Christians beof
death, how heathenish our
e imbued with the spirit of the
I have no liking for most of the
/hich I have come across, but I
erhouse's "L.ittle Rook of T.ifn
is a beautiful chapter entitled
"ear of Dying," in Alexander
Nothing is helpful which does
mge our manhood. Perhaps it
>u and others who have written
e yours, if I set before you some
t to lose sight of.
in your sorrow. Death is the
ildren of men. This is a trite
?hy in all ages. "Death," says
? evil, lor it is universal/' Fer
is too theoretical to have any
N OF THE SOUTH.
practical value, and that it is
than an alleviation.
''That loss is common wo
My own less bitter, ratli
Too common! Never m
To evening, but some hear
Yes, but it should quell our
our complaining. There is ai
anecdote which Lucian tells
Dcmonax: "One was mournii
shut himself up in darkness, an
and said he was* a wizard, an
ghost if only he named to h
never mourned for anyone. T1
at a loss, for he could not. metl
'Then, you absurd person,' qui
that you alone are suffering ir
no one who has not mourned i
2. You do not know what y
away from. There is no tellinj
have brought, what sorrow, wh
Many a bright morning is clou
an evening of weeping and a
in the north the other month,
ment which the townsfolk hav*
of a brave soldier; and I felt
only he had fallen on the field
pire would have mourned hei
untimely death, but his na
wreathed in honor, and shone
But he lived, and his end wa
memory is clouded over with ?
what may come, and if only v
God that our dear ones are ta
to come, and recognize in de;
but a mprrifnl rl(>1ivAron?o
3. These, however, are but n
helpful as they are, they are
splendid hopes which Jesus hz
you have to comfort you in yc
son was a Christian; his call
for it. You think it hard th
taken away from his service
upon it; but what does this
like a great factory, and this y
est room ; and what wonder is
sees a good workman here, h
for higher work," call him to
him to a nobler task? "Lift i
saint; and. as thev lifted him
its bonds, and went homewar
"lifted higher." Death was hi
you: Do you really believe )
Do you believe that it is bel
with Him? that it is not the
beginning, the entrance on
where all the faculties which 1
will find their perfect exercise
rupted? I know that you beli
up to your splendid creed ? li
on your glorious inheritance.
The world must be won ma
al touch is always the touch
9
rather an aggravation
uld not make
icr more;
orning wore
t did break."
discontent and silence
1 abiding lesson in this
of his ideal wise man,
lg for his son and had
d Denionax went to him
id could raise his boy's
im any three that had
lie man faltered and was
links, mention any such,
oth he, 'do you suppose
ltolerably when you see
'or his portion'I*"
our son has been taken
g what the future might
iat disaster, what shame,
ded at noon and ends in
night of storm. I was
and saw there a monue
erected to the memory
; the pity of it. Ah, if
of his glory! The Em
hero and bewailed his
ime would have been
on the page of history,
s 4 black tragedy. His
shame. We never know
^e knew, we might bless
iken away from the evil
ath not a cruel disaster.
tatural consolations, and.
i ? ?
tiuiuiteiy less tnan tne
is brought. Think what
)ur heavy sorrow. Your
came, and he was ready
at he should have been
ere he had well entered
mean? The universe is
vorld of ours is the lowit
that, when the Master
e should say: "He is fit
' an upper room and set
ne higher," said a dying
his laboring spirit broke
H anrt 11nurirrl
? M..V. M|/v?aiu. JL1V w <*.->
is promotion. I put it to
what Jesus has told us?
iter to depart and to be
end of life, but only the
a fuller and nobler life
lave been developed here
, unfettered and unintereve
it, but are you living
fave the courage to enter
n by man. The personof.
power.