To
those Christian Scientists who are desirous of giving more time to direct service in the beloved Cause of Christian Science, but who because of any of the legitimate duties attendant upon human living find this impossible, there is comfort and help in Milton's familiar words, "They also serve who only stand and wait.
It
is sometimes said to those who have been reared in Christian Science: "If only the same privilege had been mine, I am sure I would not have had so much to meet!" A student of Christian Science who had heard this statement many times, turned to our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and found on <a class="tome-reference"
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In
the second chapter of the epistle of James we read, "Faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone;" also, "As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Ah
, Lord, so often as I go, I blunder all unthinkingly into a chilling thought that shrivels dawning joy, as frost will blacken tiny tender buds—or just the slightest careless touch will mar the feathered wings of gorgeous butterflies.
Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,
Recent articles in the News having shown the need for authentic information in Amesbury with regard to certain points in the history of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, the following information is furnished from dependable sources.
W. Clyde Price, Committee on Publication for the State of Utah,
In his "To-day" column recently appearing in your paper, an editorial writer, when commenting on a doctor's statement that a certain prisoner only imagined he was ill, said, "Christian Science will tell him all ills are imagination and error, none real.
Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
According to your report of a sermon recently delivered in a Lutheran church of your city, the pastor characterized Christian Science as a "delusion," and intimated that its moral and spiritual requirements are other than those of Christianity.
What
a glorious vision was that of the beloved John on Patmos! The heavens had opened to him and he saw God, God whom Christ Jesus had revealed, reigning in universal consciousness,—revealed truth, the Christ-idea, accepted by all,—"and death and hell.
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Before I left for camp as an officer in the Reserve Corps my sister sent me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
Having received so many blessings through Christian Science treatment and the study of Christian Science, I feel I should like to express my gratitude through our periodicals, so that others may know that Christian Science does heal, and permanently too.
In the year 1916, through the reading of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I was completely healed of hemorrhages from which I had suffered almost continuously for eighteen years.
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