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Light a Healing Power. 



Apart altogether from the cheerfulness and mental serenity 

 (important auxiliaries in the eradication of disease !) which the 

 bright rays of the sun invariably engender, light has a thermic 

 influence upon the mind and body when prostrated by serious 

 ailments, and certainly acts beneficially by chemically purify- 

 ing the blood of the patient, as well as the atmosphere of the 

 apartment he occupies. I. L. 



Children of the Light, "- 



There are children of light and children of darkness. The 

 latter shun the bright, the pure azure shining sky of truth 

 with all its loving beams. Their world is like the world of in- 

 sects, and is the world of night. Insects are all light-shunners. 

 Even those which, like the bee, labour during the daytime, 

 prefer the shades of obscurity. The children of light are like 

 the birds. The world of birds is the world of light of song. 

 Nearly all of them, says Michelet, live in the sun, fill them- 

 selves with it, or are inspired by it. Those of the south carry its 

 reflected radiance on their wings ; those of our colder climates 

 in their songs ; many of them follow it from land to land. 



T. B. 



"Consider the Lilies." 



The water-lilies never grow in foul water, and always 

 prefer that which is in steady though slow movement, loving 

 especially the little bays along the edges, where they can 

 spread their broad leaves upon the surface undisturbed, and 

 expand their argent cups, brimming with golden stamens, to 

 the light of the sun. Towards evening they close their petals 

 in a kind of sleep, and during the period of their highest life, 

 which is that of the preparation of the seed that is to renew 

 the plant, they not only close, but sink below the surface of 

 the stream. LI. 



