While
the newspapers of to-day are unquestionably marvelous as achievements, when compared to those that were considered the most finished productions of the press a few years ago, the limit to this improvement has by no means been reached.
'Tis
not the sunshine or the blessedness of life,Nor love, the healer of despair,Nor laurels torn from sullen fields of strife,Nor nightfall's certitude of care—I most thank God for; 'tis the lash!That cuts my faceTo one swift surging consciousness,That I all but betrayed a royal placeAnd pawned my soul for fate's caress.
Looking
at life from a mortal, material standpoint what a sad scene presents itself! The daily record of events presents the medley of life and death, day after day, in varied tales of crime, disaster, sorrow, suffering, as the panorama—the dream of the false sense of life—moves on.
Just
outside of the city of Geneva, in Switzerland, there are two rivers which come together at an acute angle; the one to the left is muddy and turbid, while that to the right is as clear as crystal; you can look down through its liquid depths, clearly distinguishing that which lies at the bottom of the river.
We
think it well, thus early in the new year, to republish the remarks, under the above title, which appeared in the Sentinel of February 23, and the Journal for March, 1899.
We
have recently spoken of the satisfaction afforded us by the generous manner in which our co-workers of the Field have supported our publications, in the way of writing articles and testimonials.
Word comes to us from Michigan that a man claiming to be a Christian Scientist is traveling about the country and, upon the strength of plausible stories, getting money from Christian Scientists.
In the article entitled "Unique Gift from Germany," appearing in a recent issue of the Concord Monitor, and republished in the Sentinel of January 4, the following statement occurred :—
In
the editorial column of the Sentinel of December 7, under the title, "Honest Objections," we read an able argument on the price of our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," as compared with the price of other text-books, college books, law books, medical books, etc.
God's
New Year! All God gives is good, then we have nothing to fear for the new year, for we know that "all things work together for good to them that love God.
I first heard of Christian Science about eight years ago while living on a homestead in Nebraska, and to enumerate the blessings my family and I have received in those eight years would fill volumes.
Ten years ago I fell from a step-ladder causing such injury that I was never free from pain, although I immediately consulted one of our best physicians, and went every day for treatment.
A copyright case was decided last summer in the London courts, which establishes the question of who it is that really holds the right to publish either the old "authorized" or the new revised version of the New Testament.
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