The trustees of the Carnegie Institute have received numerous letters urging them to take up the subject of economics and to make a thorough investigation of the relations between capital and labor, the rate of wages paid in proportion to the unit of work performed, private ownership of natural monopolies, etc.
At
an elevation of about six thousand feet above the sea, on the left of the road to Baalbek, is a group of the noblest specimens of the vegetable kingdom in the East, which are believed to be thousands of years old and the remnant of the far-famed cedars of Lebanon, of which David and Solomon sang, and from which came the timbers for the Temple.
The
position that Science and Health holds in relation to the Bible is that of a commentary, and from the number of commentaries that have been compiled, one must admit that there was a need of helps to the better understanding of the Scriptures.
Concerning
the statement that "there is no disease," attributed to Christian Scientists, permit me to say that these words cannot be properly understood without some accompanying explanation.
Let
us consider how newspaper is made in one of the great mills of the Adirondack Mountains, where the giant machines, rattling on, day after day, never stopping, are scarcely able to supply the demand of a single New York newspaper.
A special
Lesson Sermon for the Thanksgiving Day service to be held in the Mother Church and the Branch Churches is being prepared, and will be published in due time.
The announcement that the anthracite coal strike has practically been settled is cause for general thanksgiving, and the fact that it will be settled without final resort to brute force or starvation is something upon which the operators and miners on one hand, and the general public on the other are to be congratulated.
It
is said of a late Englishman, that while a man of unusual breadth of learning, even among England's legions of the erudite, he was strikingly unlike most scholarly men in what may be termed the wasteful hoarding of his knowledge, a lifelong habit of reserve in expression having made him a somewhat remarkable example of the "reticence of learning.
When Jesus gathered the little ones into his loving embrace and said to the grown folk round about him: "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God;" and added: "Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein;" did he mean you?
In
commenting upon the ethical value of Biblical stories like that of Abraham's offering of Isaac, the editor of The Outlook has recently referred to the potency of the.
A friend
recently said to us: "It seems to me you would be more closely following Jesus, whom you profess to emulate, if you would go into the slums with your work, feeding the hungry and rescuing the perishing, instead of erecting magnificent and costly temples of worship throughout the country.
What
a help is even a little understanding of the Truth to a man in business; how it does calm and encourage and inspire confidence! The knowing that he is really spiritual and that there is no reality apart from Spirit and its reflection, actually makes a new man of him.
with contributions from Miriam C. Blackwell, Julia J. Ricker, Clara Willson Thompson, Elizabeth T. E. Stuyvesant, S. F. S., H. E. W.
September 10, the Christian Science society of Easton was dissolved and reorganized as a church to be known as First Church of Christ, Scientist, being a branch of the Mother Church in Boston, Mass.
I had for years been groping in seeming darkness and despair, mortal mind constantly telling me that I was broken down in health, overwhelmed with trials, troubles, and difficulties, till the burdens laid upon me seemed greater than I could bear.
I wish to mention a healing of the morphine habit of nine years' standing, which was accomplished in four days' treatment, and another of snuff-taking of long standing, which was healed, also a case of consumption which the doctor had operated on, taking a part of one of the ribs out in order to draw off the pus which he said had collected; finally he decided the patient must die, but said if she would use cod-liver oil she might live a year.
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