It is gradually dawning upon engineers the world over that the world's coal supply is not likely to last forever, and that the time is not very far distant when artificial fuel must be resorted to.
The habit of hiding coin and other valuables in secret, out-of-the-way places, seems to have been very general in past times when security vaults were unknown and pillages were frequent.
Christian Science
is absolute: it teaches that Jesus, the first great demonstrator of Christian Science, knew the absolute principle of scientific being, and through this understanding he overcame all forms of error, sin, disease, and death.
Whether
right or wrong in their peculiar views—which seem absurd to many—the Christian Scientists in some things set religionists in general and the world at large a commendable example.
It has been shown by actual count, by a professor at the University of Minnesota, that a two-year-old child may use in a day more than two thousand different words, repeating each of them, of course, from two or three times up to three hundred and fifty times, so that the total number spoken may reach ten thousand.
The command to preach the gospel does not mean to Christian Scientists that they shall intrude their views upon their friends and neighbors, nor even upon their own families, if they are not ready to receive the good tidings.
A religious contemporary has recently said that the scholars of the world are rapidly giving up their faith in miracles; but they are doing nothing to lessen the appetite for miracles, which is now eager and clamorous.
Recently the Chicago Record-Herald published the result of a count of the attendants at the Sunday morning service of 125 of the 666 churches in that city.
The
practical efficiency of Christian Science in the adjustment of business difficulties is being daily testified to by thousands, and the experiences which follow are of the many which could be told.
"Till
we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ".
Hearing
frequently of instances where over-zealous, well-intentioned Christian Scientists have unwisely presented thoughts of truth, in their impetuous desire to lead sufferers and seekers to its light, one is very forcibly reminded of the injunctions to bridle the tongue and to let our light so shine before men that they may see our good works and glorify our Father in heaven.
A question was raised in a recent Wednesday evening meeting at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Toronto, by a gentleman who stated that he was not a Christian Scientist.
I desire to give through our periodicals an experience which has meant much to me, and which I hope will help some seeker for Truth, as much as it has helped me.
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