A recent editorial in the Boston Herald gives the following interesting statistics regarding the growth of the United States during a period of forty years; in 1860 the population was 31,443,321, and in 1900 76,303,387.
A custom of our church, First Church of Christ, Scientist, since 1897, has been to send a yearly offering to the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass.
It
is not wealth I'd wish for thee, dear friend,Nor fame, nor power thy destinies to bendTo suit thy will; nor love, nor peace, nor joy,Nor health, nor e'en content without alloy.
The January Success contains an interesting article showing what may be produced from a number of bars of iron, one each being placed in the hands of various mechanics.
IT
is fortunate that there is in this day a Church of Christ—a body of people—whose belief in the teachings of the Christ is so implicit that they stand as his stanch defenders against modern assaults upon his teachings.
To provide for those who have copies only of the 226th, or later editions of Science and Health, references are here given which will enable them to study the Bible lessons.
A thought
came to me recently which has helped me greatly to understand that every honest Christian Science treatment has its effect in destroying some part of our false sense of things which is keeping us from realizing the true.
For a long time it has seemed to me that I ought to write something of my experience with Christian Science; for the testimonies found in the Sentinel have often been very helpful to me.
"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty".
with contributions from Washington Gladden, F. G. Peabody, Henry A. Manning, J. W. Miller
If this is the whole of the religious life,—to know God as our friend and the friend of all men, and to enter into that mutual friendship with which He evermore seeks to bless us,—then other things will surely follow.
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