I have
just returned, says a correspondent of the Cleveland Plaindealer, from visiting the most remarkable church in the world, a place of worship situated seven hundred and fifty feet underground in the heart of a coal mine, and fashioned entirely with pick and shovel by hardy toilers in the fossil woods.
As we cannot learn the mechanism of a watch by taking a telescope to pieces, so these vivisectors say, as we have learned nothing by vivisecting animals, we must have human beings to vivisect!
Some
of the daily newspapers of New York and elsewhere are publishing a list of what they are pleased to call Christian Science casualties or deaths, occurring under Christian Science treatment.
At
the close of a day of steady snowfall, which the warm breath of April had, at every street crossing, quickly converted into mud of uncertain depth, the thought came: "This is Wednesday evening; surely the gathering at the dear church will be thin to-night, yet I cannot afford to stay at home.
The
first thing that attracted my attention to Christian Science, was the beauty of a life that came under its sway The world is full of doctrine; whole libraries teem with it; whole communities overflow with it—of the positive as well as of the negative variety.
It
may have been a dream—but beautiful at first:I found myself upon a breezy eminenceAt sunrise; and the hill was one great flashing opalIn the bright morning sun, blushing resplendentlyBeneath his passionate June kisses; and the oaksThat crowned the hill stretched out their glist'ning, pleadingarmsFor more—and more—and more.
Is it in accordance with the teaching of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in treating disease, to have lists of causes of special sins for each disease?
As there is so much interest being manifested in the distribution of Christian Science literature, I will relate for the encouragement of many who are engaged in this splendid work, how seed, when not even intentionally sown, but carelessly or accidentally dropped by the wayside, spirings up and bears fruit.
Dear Sentinel:—Although I had seen the great benefit one dear to me had received through Christian Science, it seemed as though there was nothing tangible in it.
To correct an erroneous impression that I am not receiving subscriptions for the support of the Mother Church, I will state that I am always glad to receive contributions or subscriptions.