It
would seem that the United States, with its extensive coast line on the Atlantic and Pacific and its numerous harbors from Maine to Florida and from Washington to southern California, had already a sufficiency of seaports, but there are citizens of Chicago who seem to think otherwise, and who have given evidence of their faith, not only in their city but in the future of this country, by building and launching several steamers for salt water service.
It
is generally conceded that education is not a pouring in, nor a storing away of information in the human mind, but rather the drawing out and setting in motion of the latent capabilities of the individual; that it is the building up and rounding out of true character,—cherishing and expanding those primal elements of real manhood and womanhood that make for righteousness, that enable one to be and to do that which is highest and best.
A new form of application blank for membership with the Mother Church has been prepared, which can be had by applying to the clerk, 30 Norway Street, Boston, Mass.
Whether
our good friend, The Watchman, a Baptist journal, is aware of it or not, the sentiments contained in the following articles—"A Sunny Disposition," and "The Sanctity of Home"—are in exact accord with the Christian Science doctrine.
For some time past the members of the congregation of the Christian Science denomination, known as the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, whose place of worship is on Main Street, between McKinney and Lamar Avenues, have felt the necessity of making arrangements for larger quarters, as for several weeks many were compelled to stand during the services.
Over the field when the day is fair,The sower scatters the seed abroad,Stays not to mark where it falls, his careBut to leave it with his God,Who sendeth the rain and the sun's bright rays,And a hundred-fold in the harvest days.
For
three consecutive years it has been my privilege to attend the Annual Communion service in the Mother Church, and each time I have returned home with a happier heart, and with renewed animation and determination to do better work in the Master's vineyard.
Through reading and receiving much benefit from the many testimonies published in Journal and Sentinel, I am frequently reminded of my own failure to relate some of the benefits I have received through Christian Science.
Before coming into Christian Science an attack of headache, fever, and sore throat would appear about four times a year, and I would be kept from school for nearly a week.
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