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MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS

to the captive, health to the sick, salvation from sin to the sinner — and overcometh the world!

Go, and tell what things ye shall see and hear: how the blind, spiritually and physically, receive sight; how the lame, those halting between two opinions or hobbling on crutches, walk; how the physical and moral lepers are cleansed; how the deaf — those who, having ears, hear not, and are afflicted with “tympanum on the brain” — hear; how the dead, those buried in dogmas and physical ailments, are raised; that to the poor — the lowly in Christ, not the man-made rabbi — the gospel is preached. Note this: only such as are pure in spirit, emptied of vainglory and vain knowledge, receive Truth.


Here ends the colloquy; and a voice from heaven seems to say, “Come and see.”

The nineteenth-century prophets repeat, “Unto us a son is given.”

The shepherds shout, “We behold the appearing of the star!” and the pure in heart clap their hands.

Editor's Extracts from Sermon

Text: Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. Matt. xxii. 29.

The Christian Science Journal reported as follows: —

The announcement that the Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy would speak before the Scientist denomination on the afternoon of October 26, drew a large audience. Hawthorne Hall was densely packed, and many had to go away unable to obtain seats. The distinguished speaker began by saying: —