At the end of the fiscal year, June 30, the available cash balance in the United States treasury was larger than ever before in the history of the Government.
The
world longs for a more practical Christianity, longs for a clearer conception of God, longs for a better understanding of the Bible; it has for ages been praying for "unity of faith," that we might all be of "one Mind and one accord," having the same Mind that was manifest in Christ Jesus, that we might be a unit in regard to God and the plan of Salvation.
The
growing confidence which is placed in Christian Science by the public in general, and by some physicians in particular, is admirably illustrated by an article in your issue of May 3, wherein a physician is made to say:—
The first testimony was given by a lady who told of a gentleman who was healed of asthma, having come to this valley six years ago, seeking health through climate.
"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," printed from new plates, with lines numbered, and with important revisions by the author, is now ready for distribution.
The
mind that entertains and is habitually rehearsing the faults, idiosyncracies and disabilities of his neighbors, becomes a channel, thereby, through which ignorance or malice will work ill for all concerned.
The
world has not yet forgotten the strength and faith and womanliness of one who worthily stood by her husband, the United States Minister, during those awful weeks of the siege of the British Legation in Pekin.
The
erring material senses with their lying estimate of what is true, rebel against saying, "I am well," while still to mortal sense they are holding the field with a false, physical claim of sickness.
We
are confident that with a greater perspective the Annual Meeting of 1902 will be generally recognized as marking an epoch in the history of our Cause.
None
of our neighbors have shown us a more friendly and considerate spirit than the New Haven Leader, which sent a special representative to the Annual Meeting, and published two or more columns each day of very bright and breezy reports.
Dear Friend:—Gladly do I send you the desired information in regard to what brought me out of darkness into a little understanding of what our God is to us His children, as in Him we live, move, and have our being.
On account of what had been pronounced an incurable disease, from which I had been a sufferer for more than eight years, I was in an almost hopeless condition when I left Chicago with my family last November.
After many years of sickness and great suffering, which I felt I could not endure much longer without some relief, God sent to me the Truth as taught by Christian Science.
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