Beginning
to-night with the first appearance of the new moon, and ending to-morrow night with the earliest shining of the stars in the sky, the first day of the month of Tisri is observed by Jews everywhere throughout the world as the introduction to the 5660th year since the creation of the world, and as the beginning of the ten days of repentance preceding the day of atonement.
It is the generally accepted doctrine of the great mass of Christians to-day, that the healing and other wonderful works of Jesus were miracles wrought among men to attest the verity of his words and to give credence to them as of divine origin; but that these works were only for that period and are not to be repeated, at least until his second coming.
Possibly
a scrap of my experience in the study of Christian Science may be helpful to some one who, like myself, has been seeking for a religion that will satisfy, therefore I give briefly a few thoughts, hoping that good may be done.
There
was a testimony given in one of our Wednesday evening meetings recently, that led me into a train of thought which ended in my having a clearer thought and a kinder one, I hope, relative to those dear ones who have not yet caught a glimpse of Truth, as it is revealed in Christian Science.
Probably
nine-tenths of the people in the civilized world regard children as so many little animals, embryomen and women, dependents to be fed and clothed, kissed and petted, but standing on a very different plane—a lower one, too—than themselves.
I have heard it said that if Christian Scientists have power to heal sickness as they claim, it naturally follows that they have power to produce sickness as well.
Upon
reading in the Sentinel the statement that better Scientists were needed more than numbers, the questions came: Are you meeting this demand upon you?
Bertha Gunther-Peterson
with contributions from Marie Schoen
Dear Sentinel,—We wish to tell the Field that since June first of this year, we have been chartered by the German government as Erste Kirche Christi des Scientisten in Deutschland.
with contributions from Theodore L. Cuyler, Edward Everett Hale
It has been reported around the world that the Russian ecclesiastical authorities have changed the Fifth Commandment so as to read, "Honor thy father and thy mother, the emperor and his officials, that thy days may be long in the land.
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