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230 at the Mass, thus signifying subservience to Romish domination; or by forswearing their Saviour in some other way; but they would not, and by the power of Mind these sufferers were raised above materialism. To them the body no longer existed, and could not suffer. They were triumphant over pain and death. The sword and fagot became naught, because neither steel nor flame could touch the Immortal Principle of Life.

As the railway is dotted with telegraph-poles, sustaining the wires over which run the messages of life, so along the line of Christian history may everywhere be seen the upright lives which bore aloft the wonders of Christian Healing. Sometimes the healing power lessened, till it was almost lost, but anon it reappeared among the Waldenses or Covenanters. As the Parsees will never allow the sacred lamp to expire in their temples, because it is the symbol of the creative effulgence, so the healing fire has never been extinct in the Christian Church, even when its Principle was not well understood.

This third side of our City's outline joins the fourth; which in its turn touches the first side, the Bible, forming the last angle of a perfect square.

So wrote Bishop Berkeley, on his way to the New World, more than a century and a half ago. He was a great Natural Scientist in his day, and held opinions concerning “absolute idealism” which advance his memory near the border-line of Christian Science; but even Berkeley could not foresee the immense gains which Natural Science would make in the next century. Upon the western slope of the mountains the last sunbeams linger. If