The appropriation bills that have passed Congress and those that are still pending call for unprecedented sums of money, and it seemed likely that the present Congress would make a record for extravagance before its adjournment on March 4, that would astonish the world.
The Christian Science Journal is in the middle of its eighteenth year, which is evidence that it is a periodical which has a field, fills it, and has come to stay.
Our blessings should be sought, not claimed,—Cherished, not watched with jealous eye;Love is too precious to be named,Save with a reverence deep and high
In
the course of an able address delivered before the Massachusetts Legislature Tuesday, February 12, 1901, on the occasion of its first celebration of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, Senator Hoar referred to the Golden Rule as the solution of some of the serious problems which are now confronting our nation.
At
the celebration of the ninety-second birthday of Abraham Lincoln by the Middlesex Club at the Hotel Brunswick in Boston, Tuesday, February 12, 1901, Senator Joseph V.
Another
Christian Science healer—this time in Cincinnati—has been acquitted of practising medicine illegally, and this closes the old year with an unbroken series of victories for the "irregulars" over the forces of the recognized schools of medicine.
In
regard to legislation to regulate the practice of medicine, it may be well to observe that the choice of medical attendants and advisers is a matter which each man has a right to make for himself.
Christian Scientists claim that a measure introduced at Albany, pursuant to the recommendations of the so-called regular practitioners, is a blow at personal liberty and permits the Board of Health of the State of New York to exercise autocratic powers in dealing with people who may have offended it.
The
Bell Bill aimed at the Christian Scientists is not only assailable on the ground of unconstitutional interference with religious liberty, but with personal liberty as well, for the right of people to employ whatever kind of healers they choose cannot be taken away by statute.
One
of the most impressive features to me, during the Communion week in Boston in June last, was the wonderful ease and quietness with which the great crowds of Christian Scientists handled themselves.