February 12, 1903
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The Elkins Bill amending the Inter-State Commerce laws on the points of rebates and discriminations by common carriers has been adopted by the Senate without debate.
Some
seem to think that because Christian Science is based upon the propositions that all causation is mental, and that the divine Mind and its manifestation constitute all reality, the adherents of this faith utterly ignore the material universe and its conditions, and expect to depart from earth immediately, and take up their abode in the spiritual realm.
God's
way of deliverance is surely the best at all times, and always a safe one.
Nothing
in all the realm of astronomy impresses the imagination more than its enormous distances.
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There was a large audience at the Isis Theatre last evening [January 8], to listen to the very able address of Carol Norton, C.
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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.
Some
of the practitioners whose cards appear in the Journal complain that they frequently receive letters and circulars soliciting them to purchase merchandise, subscribe for the stock of newly organized corporations, embark in real estate speculations, and in various ways engage in business enterprises of which they have no information other than that the authors of the letters and circulars claim to be Christian Scientists.
It
is related of Napoleon that once when some one offered "circumstances" as an excuse for failure, he arrogantly replied, "Circumstances! I make circumstances!" The sad sequel to his long–continued bravado is familiar to all.
Clear
thinking is distinctly Christian, and every statement of Truth and its manifestation must be sane, self–consistent, and logical.
We
are permitted to use the following excerpts from two letters written by a gentleman living in a small town in England, who has had no opportunity to know anything of Christian Science save through the friend whose reply letter, in part, is also appended.
Through
the agency of a little child, in fact with a mere babe as teacher, I have been privileged to learn a helpful lesson showing the folly of a much used statement: "My progress in Christian Science has been very slow.
In
journeying up the hill of Christian Science we find many paths open to us.
About
a month since, a gentleman called on us socially but almost immediately excusing himself for his abrupt departure, he said he felt one of his frequent attacks of head pain coming on, and that he must get home right away.
One of the things that chiefly impresses an American Christian who travels widely in heathen lands is that heathenism is far more than a superstition or a creed; it is an atmosphere and a type of character.
After some preliminary consultation between First and Third Churches of Christ, Scientist, of Cincinnati, action which authorized the following letter was taken by Third Church:—
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Applications for membership in the Mother Church must be in the hands of the Clerk on or before May 20.
I wish to express my gratitude through the Sentinel for what Christian Science has done for me.
When Christian Science was first brought to my notice.
Three and a half years ago, I came from Australia to London straight to Christian Science.
It is not quite a year since I was entirely relieved of an excruciating form of neuralgic headache, or, as the oculist termed it, astigmatism.
What else can I, a lame old man, do but sing hymns to God?
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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.
In a recent editorial we made an observation, to which we did not suppose that any objection could be raised, that the Divine Revelation which God has been pleased to make to man is necessarily imperfect, since it is impossible for anything more than a partial revelation of the eternal things of God to be communicated to a finite and temporal creature like man.
