The following message was sent on the 16th by President Roosevelt to their Imperial Majesties, the Empress Dowager and the Emperor of China, Pekin, in commemoration of the opening of the last link of the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company's cable connecting the United States and China:
Whosoever
imagines that because Christian Science is metaphysical, it can be understood only by those who have special intellectual gifts, altogether mistakes its nature.
What
a pitiful mistake it was, on the part of mankind, to have ever conceived the notion that God's creation was marred by sin, when at most it was only obscured thereby—hidden to mortal sense by a material concept.
When
there came through the Sentinel the first appeal for additional funds for the building of The Mother Church, it was difficult for me to know my duty.
We
occasionally hear people say that a certain article in our periodicals has been very helpful to them and that they would like to give it to some friend, but that it is now out of print, and they cannot understand why this should be so.
Do
you suppose the tiny, struggling sprout In some bleak spot, some barren, stony waste, Knows inward joy that it gains, day by day, A greener color from the sun's warm ray, Feels gratitude that it makes better haste, Measuring increase by some mark about?
The special correspondent of the Portland Express, who has been touring New Hampshire during the past month, in the course of a letter dated from Concord has this to say concerning our best-known and best-beloved resident:—
The Ohio senate has voted down the bill giving fees to Christian Science healers, and Senator Lamb is quoted as saying he doesn't believe a man can preach with power on a stated salary.
No one will dispute for a moment that the greatest need in the world to-day is for some such efficacious plan of moral and physical salvation as that which Christian Science offers.
with contributions from Charles J. Adams, H. W. Hoyt, William McIntosh
An audience that filled to its utmost capacity the beautiful auditorium of First Church of Christ, Scientist, last evening [April 2], greeted the lecturer, Mr.
To the beloved members of my Church, The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston: Divine Love bids me say,—Assemble not at the residence of your Pastor Emeritus, at or about the time of our Annual Meeting and Communion service, for the divine and not the human should engage our attention at this sacred season of prayer and praise.
It
is an encouraging sign of the times that the demand for Christian works and Christian living rather than for mere profession is becoming more insistent, and this demand is well expressed by the Medford.
An editorial in the Sentinel of September 30, 1905, in regard to humanity's intense fear of consumption, reminded me of the great benefit I have received from Christian Science.
There is in man a power to see the invisible, to hear the inaudible, to know the unknowable, to enter into the non-sensuous and the spiritual; but this power lies in many a man dormant.
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