with contributions from A. A. Sulcer, Robert J. Burdette, T. H. Taft
If anything were needed to show that the great mass of people are seeking for light and truth, the immense gathering of earnest, interested seekers after truth on Sunday evening, February 25, to listen to Judge Ewing's lecture on Christian Science, would be ample proof.
Every once in a while I make a little excursion into the domains of Christian Science, not with a view of becoming a convert, but simply on the "good in everything" principle.
The tenets of The First Church of Christ, Scientist,—the Mother Church,—printed on folded sheet for the use of branch churches of Christ, Scientist, with space for the names of churches and their by-laws, can be had at one dollar per hundred.
We trust there will be a careful and continued perusal of the article bearing the above caption, and now standing on the last page of the Sentinel under the head of Notices.
A Letter recently received from a young lady who is interested in Christian Science contains the following reference to the experience of herself and a friend:—
At
the last regular Wednesday night testimonial meeting of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, in the auditorium of the Pepper Building, a number of interesting personal testimonials as to the efficacy of Christian Science in healing mental and physical ailments was given.
In Holman Hunt's great picture, "The Shadow of Death," which represents Jesus as a young man in the carpenter's shop stretching himself at the close of a weary day, and with his outspread arms making the shadow of a cross on the wall, there is a minor feature that is full of suggestion.
As growth in Christian Science implants in the consciousness of each student the beautiful images of thought which Truth places there in the room vacated by the thoughts which we had cherished as real until their worthlessness became apparent to us from the opening of our eyes which had been blinded, we see through thought's vistas views above any that we had imagined.
As our periodicals appear at their appointed times, monthly, weekly, and quarterly, keeping us supplied with messages from Christian Science and Christian Scientists, the fact that we can have so much done for us in return for so small an effort on our part becomes more and more apparent and also more wonderful.
The beauty, grandeur, and power of Christian Science burst upon my darkened sense nine years ago, when, sad and discouraged in mind and sick in body, after years of hopeless invalidism.
In the year 1893, after several years of suffering and invalidism, which had baffled the skill of many physicians, my brother, now a Reader in one of the Brooklyn churches, induced me to try Christian Science, and took me to a Christian Scientist in Toronto.
"If it were attempted to run a line through society which should separate the wise from the foolish," says the Christian Register, "probably no two persons could be found who would agree as to just where that line should lie.
Circumstances make it necessary again to request our co-workers throughout the Field to observe the following rules in sending in their orders to the Publishing House:—
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