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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.