December 25, 1902
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The House Committee on Interstate Commerce has ordered a favorable report on the Department of Commerce Bill.
The
attempt of denominational editors to misrepresent the Christian Science, when examined in the light of Truth, shows a lack of consistency.
Christian Science
demands absolute perfection of its adherents, and yet they recognize that perfection must come by spiritual growth.
As in the science of mathematics, if we incorporate error or falsity into our statements we find error and falsity in the conclusion, so in our problem of life we must include in our premises only those things which we wish realized in our experience.
Recent events have revealed that the public is deeply interested in this new-old religion; that prejudice is gradually yielding to fair judgment; that kindness and generosity find a larger place in the minds of men than heretofore; that the trend of opinion is more or less characterized by justice, and that opposition is confined within comparatively narrow limits.
The prayer of enlightened faith, by which Christian Science heals, is the prayer which understands or realizes that all good is already accomplished, and that God has never willed that man should be sick, or that he should be a sinner.
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The author of the Christian Science text-book takes no patients, does not consult on disease, nor read letters referring to these subjects.
There shall be a Building Committee which shall consist of not less than three members of this Church in good standing, elected by a majority vote of the Christian Science Board of Directors and with the approval of the Pastor Emeritus.
We
are informed that some of the smaller churches, when electing new Readers, have been impressed with a lack of available material within their own ranks, and have felt compelled to draw upon other fields, a condition that should not exist after three years of active public work.
Whoever
takes the time to look through the pages of current religious literature will be impressed with the warring incongruities, the turmoil and tussle of the world's expressed convictions.
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Per capita taxes, contributions to the Mother Church, or contributions to the Building Fund, should be sent by check, post-office money order, or express money order.
It
has been said that the life of a Christian Scientist should be characterized by an uncommon amount of common sense.
Gazing
out of the window of the Century Building just above the arched entrance of massive rock masonry, fixed and unchangeable in its entirety, I saw its reflection in the window of the building opposite.
We are glad to send you an encouraging message from this little town situated in the heart of the Rockies.
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These
reports from the Field are made impersonal for obvious reasons.
If you let a single ray of light through the shutter, it will go on diffusing itself without limit till it enlightens the world; but the shadow that was never so wide at first, as rapidly contracts till it comes to naught.
After two years of spiritual and helpful comfort received from reading our weekly and monthly publications, I am constrained, in this season of thankful acknowledgment for all our blessings, to contribute my mite to the overwhelming evidence of the might and power of the Christian Science thought.
I wish to tell of my experience with quinsy sore throat.
It is with hearts overflowing with gratitude for Christian Science that we send a report of a few of the many demonstrations of the power of Mind over matter which we have had in three years' growth of the movement on the Llano Estacado of Texas.
About a year ago I was asked to treat a lady who had been in very feeble health and had suffered intensely for many years.
I was suffering day and night with sciatica when my dear mother wrote me to try Christian Science.
To introduce myself I would say, that we as Christian Scientists stand alone in this part of our state, Michigan.
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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures with latest revisions and additions, and numbered lines.
