To the Editor of the Sun:—Will you kindly grant me space in your columns to correct some errors in the lectures on Christian Science, recently delivered in your city, by Rev.
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effect of the Spanish-American war of 1898 has been to open the eyes of Spain to the necessity of building herself up—of seeking to regain some of her old commercial prestige.
There are six hundred clocks in the Treasury Department and a man named Fleming is paid forty-five dollars a month for winding them and keeping them in repair.
In
a recent issue of the Sentinel we republished from the Midland an account of a lady who went to a famous New York physician for medical advice and treatment.
We occasionally read an article or a sermon wherein, by labored effort, an attempt is made to disparage the Christian Science text-book, and then, by way of conclusion, the charge is made that the price is so high as to prevent many from buying it.
We
have been taught that true liberalism is the loosing of the bands that have held us in bondage to tradition, with its time-honored thought-grooves, wherein man has seemingly lost himself.
Jesus
said, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God," and "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
My father was an independent thinker and prided himself on being unbiased, unhampered, and free in his thought, hence I knew no religious training and grew to young womanhood questioning always any religions presented to me, seeing no mercy or justice in a God who could permit poverty and misery and joyless lives, such as I saw and read of.
For several years I have been a student of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," but there was one point that was never settled satisfactorily.
Concerning the hymn "Lead, Kindly Light," a writer in the Universalist Leader says; "Some additional particulars concerning Cardinal Newman's hymn may be of interest to the reader.
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