The rapid consumption of our standing timber, by the lumber and wood pulp industries of the country, gives special interest to any information respecting the immense northern belt of timber stretching across Canada from the Atlantic to Alaska.
One
of the results of the prosperity which the state of California is now enjoying is the revival of the lumber interests and the remarkable demand for export of the product of its redwood forests.
Cheerful
acquiescence in the wise counsel of our Leader has made startling changes throughout the Field, and many have been called from comparative privacy to public activity.
with contributions from Henry Jewett, Mary Brookins, N. A. Hawes
Editor Sentinel:—As a native born Australian I have a very special interest in the growth of our Cause in that far-away continent, and am prompted to give the Field opportunity to read these notes of a late conversation with a representative of the work there.
Why
people sneer and deride a science old as Creation because it appears under a new title as a re-discovery, is an unexplainable mystery to me, unless viewed in the light that it seemingly demands of its followers too high a standard of spirituality.
In
the shoe department of a large business house this little conversation took place between a young woman purchaser and the pleasant salesman, who said, "How are the folks?
It
was my privilege this year, to attend for the first time the Annual Communion service of the Mother Church, and to listen to the deeply significant words of our Leader's message.
It came to me quite suddenly not long ago that it meant something to give one's first fruits as a freewill offering, and the withholding of them showed a lack of appreciation, and ingratitude for good things received.
Each seek when the Sentinel comes with its load of good cheer, and each month when the Journal double freighted brings its messages, I think I will surely tell the Field of what has seemed to me my greatest demonstration because of the great fear I had at the time, and because I have never been afraid to trust anything to Christian Science since.
I did not know that man's God-given right was to destroy every evil thought that presented itself to his consciousness, therefore these thoughts led me wherever they would while I gave them power to rule over me.
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