July 23, 1904
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The Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department has received a copy of an enactment of the Philippine Commission providing for the administration and temporary leasing and sale of the land commonly known as the Friar Lands, for the purchase of which the government of the Philippine Islands recently has contracted.
Article
The
Corner-stone of the new auditorium for the Mother Church in Boston was laid Saturday, July 16, at eight o'clock in the forenoon, and those who participated in this "simple, prayerful, devout" service, were much gratified that, in the orderly progress of the work, this ceremony became possible upon the birthday of Mrs.
Article
For the past year and a half we have held our services in churches of other denominations, and as we felt the need of a home of our own we have rented a very pleasant room in Syndicate Block on Broadway, which has been tastefully fitted up, and with our new chapel organ we feel happy and grateful that this demonstration has been made.
Article
We
have had several lectures delivered in this city by members of the Board of Lectureship, and all have been greatly enjoyed, not only by Christian Scientists but by the masses of the people.
Article
The author of the Christian Science text-book takes no patients, does not consult on disease, nor read letters referring to these subjects.
Editorial
The
dedication of the Church in Concord, our Leader's splendid gift to the Christian Scientists of her home city, is an accomplished fact, and this building will stand as an enduring testimonial to the re-establishment of spiritual healing as a practical, demonstrable, and necessary feature of our Master's complete and saving gospel; but more substantial, more enduring even than this granite pile is the Dedicatory Address which Mrs.
Editorial
In
its dignity, its chasteness, and the uniqueness of its form as well as of the end it subserves, a beautiful church is the highest symbol of the temple "not made with hands,"—a consciousness which is the place of the Divine indwelling.
Editorial
In
the intervals between the recent dedication services, there were many joyous meetings of old friends who had come from all over the land to share with our dear brethren in Concord the blessings of the occasion, and how gladly did they express their appreciation of the words of truth to which they had listened.
Letters
We
are pleased that our Leader has given us permission to publish the following letters and telegrams which are but a few of the many she received upon the occasion of the dedication of the church edifice, her gift to the Church in Concord.
Poem
The
hand of Love supernal rolls the heavy stone awayThat marked my sepulchre and, leading forth into the day,Bares to the sabres of His sun my shadowy bonds of clay.
Article
The Christian Scientists of Belfast, Ireland, have been very greatly encouraged by the success of the lecture delivered by Judge Septimus J.
Testimony of Healing
I would like to give my testimony to the Field, telling briefly what Christian Science has done for me.
Testimony of Healing
I give the following testimony with a heart full of gratitude to God, to our beloved Leader, and to the one who, thirteen years ago, came to me in an hour of great suffering and despair, and said these words to me, "I want to tell you that Christian Science can heal you.
Testimony of Healing
In grateful acknowledgment of the benefit which I have received through Christian Science.
Testimony of Healing
When Christian Science was presented to me I was a liberal or skeptic; and my first impression of its teachings was that it was nothing more than mental suggestion or transferrence of thought; but an honest desire to know the truth for truth's sake, soon dispelled this illusion, and as I continue to study the Bible in connection with Science and Health, it imparts a knowledge of divine Principle which illumines the Bible and makes practicable and demonstrable to-day the teaching of Jesus Christ.
Testimony of Healing
How gladly I testify to what Christian Science has done for me.
Testimony of Healing
Christian Science has been the means of bringing into my experience so much joy, harmony, and peace, and has so enlarged and brightened my mental outlook, that I have reason to be very grateful for its many blessings.
Testimony of Healing
I was a skeptic,—athirst in a desert land, when the "waiting harpstrings" of my "mind".
Article
Thy present paralysis of the churches affects all Western Christendom, and only a cause co-terminous with modern civilization will explain it.
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