The Republican National convention, which was held at Philadelphia last week, nominated William McKinley for President and Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York for Vice-President.
Among
the several exhaustive papers on different subjects read at the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, that by Elwood Mead on "Needs of Irrigation" attracted great attention.
The
recent publication in the Mail of letters said to be the correspondence of Agrippa and Christ, in which the former asks the latter to come into his territory and heal him.
One
of the positive proofs of the utter misconception of the teachings of Christian Science on the part of many of its critics, is the fact of their insistence that Christian Scientists do not believe in prayer and hence are a prayerless people.
To the Editor of The Standard Union:—Will you kindly grant me space to reply to the criticisms on Christian Science contained in your account of a sermon preached by the Rev.
By all odds the best piece of macadam road bed in the city of Concord is that new piece constructed last summer from Fruit Street west, past Pleasant View, on the Hopkinton road.
While
there was no formal or public announcement of the fact, it was an open secret among the visiting Scientists during their recent gatherings in Boston, that the beautiful and spacious grounds of the Rev.
In the multiplicity of our labors we have thus far omitted to mention one of the pleasant events in connection with the recent annual gathering in Boston.
We
observe that a little story is going the rounds of the newspapers to the effect that I brought the testimony meeting held in Tremont Temple, Boston, June 6, to a sudden close because one of the speakers spoke of the healing of a person who had been pronounced dead by the physicians in attendance.
Being
a child of a Methodist minister and a Methodist mother, one brother a Methodist Evangelist, four others and two sisters, pillars in the Methodist Church, and having borne the stigma of being the "black sheep" of the family on account of never having professed religion, I tried conscientiously to embrace orthodoxy, but failing to find satisfaction, I turned to Spiritualism.
Dear Sentinel:—The days slip by and I find I have not done what I assured myself I would do on my return from Boston: that is, just to send a word on paper, no matter how inadequate it might be, to express my sincere thanks to all who worked for our last Communion service.
I had no intention of accepting Christian Science when I went to a healer last July for treatment, but I had heard of the cures wrought by it, and I wanted to be healed, no matter by what means it was done.
James Van Inwagen
with contributions from John Ruskin
I was attracted to Christian Science about four years ago, on account of its religious phase, but have since had the most practical proofs of its healing efficacy.
The Congregationalist publishes the following prayer of Jeremy Taylor: "O Almighty God, give to thy servant a meek and gentle spirit that I may be slow to anger, and easy to mercy and forgiveness.
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