It seems eminently fitting that the new Symphony Hall in Boston should have proved on its opening so complete a success, for Boston possesses a high record for the study and presentation of the best music.
We have received letters from various places in Indiana and Ohio that a man claiming to be a Christian Scientist is traveling about the country and, upon the strength of plausible stories, has succeeded in obtaining money from a number of the Scientists.
Courage, faint heart! the stars shine still,As they have shone ten thousand years;The planets all their work fulfilThroughout the night, and have no fears.
Editor Herald:—In your issue of October 5, your columns gave some remarks about "Christian Science in Pekin," showing, by way of illustration, that the doctrines of Christian Science do not prevent its belivers from at least exercising sound judgment and effective action in a trying emergency such as the siege of the legations.
In
my work in Christian Science I am often told by those who are investigating and have but reached the numeration table, even if they have got that far, that Christian Science seems transcendental, and in each of these cases the word is used in the sense of that which is "vaguely and ambitiously extravagant in speculation, imagery, or diction.
While
riding on an electric car recently, I had three illustrations presented to me, which, rightly understood and applied, were useful lessons in Scientific demonstration.
Soon after I came to Fitzgerald I met with an accident which seriously injured my knees and ankles, resulting in my being a confirmed invalid for more than three years.
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