September 12, 1903
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THE
influence of Christian Science on the world, and particularly on Christian Scientists, is in the highest sense educational.
IF
the Bible makes anything within its lids emphatic it is obedience to the statutes and the commandments of God.
IN
his letter to the Ephesians Paul refers to the church as "the body of Christ.
Now that Christian Scientists from over the world have again had the great pleasure and privilege of attending the services and meetings in Boston during the Communion season, what have they gathered from them?
MORE
and more it comes to me that, "The song of Christian Science is work—work—work—watch and pray' ".
In Christian Science, the nothingness of matter is a logical conclusion, deduced from the Scriptural premise that God, Spirit, is all.
The life of our Lord proves that Christianity involves practice as well as preaching.
I pray you with all earnestness to prove, and know within your hearts, that all things lovely and righteous are possible for those who believe in their possibility, and who determine that for their part they will make every day's work contribute to them.
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A COMPLETE CONCORDANCE TO SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES
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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.
Will
those beloved students whose growth is taking in the Ten Commandments and scaling the steep ascent of Christ's Sermon on the Mount, accept profound thanks for their swift messages of rejoicing over the Twentieth Century Church Manual?
WITHIN
the past few weeks some daily newspapers have had considerable to say about the new edition of the Church Manual, and through them an effort has been made to convey the impression that radical changes have taken place in the internal economy of the Christian Science denomination.
IT
was one of the rarest of June days and the old appletree in the garden was the scene of an unusual stir in the affairs of its feathered family.
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The first Annual Meeting of the Association of Teachers organized under Article XXXIII.
If I were to tell you all that has come to me through Christian Science it would take many pages, but I would like to relate one experience which shows conclusively the working of Truth and Love in an impersonal way.
I always had poor health, and as a child could never play as other children did without a sick spell.
Four years ago, I had nervous prostration, and then the grip; this left me with chronic nasal catarrh, which went to my stomach and caused nervous ulceration and severe constipation.
Having just had such a clear demonstration of the power of Truth over error, I wish to tell of it, hoping it may prove helpful to some one else.
So many blessings have come to me, during the late Communion season, that in return I send a few testimonies of what Truth can do in the way of healing sickness and sin.
If any one has reason to be grateful for Christian Science, it is I Christian Science found me in a pitiful condition.
I was a physical wreck, had taken medicine until it had but little effect on me, yet I thought I could not live without it, since I had no other God to which I could go as a "very present help" in sickness.
I know that I am standing on the solid rock of Truth from which nothing can ever move me.
I was led to Christian Science by one who, on three occasions, in reply to my expressed wishes to be rid of my physical ailments, suggested that I try Christian Science.
I wish to express the gratitude that I feel for Christian Science.
It is now about six years since I came to Christian Science.
It is to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" that I owe all the peace, happiness, and harmony realized by me during the past five years, and in that interval, I have also learned to love and study the Bible as never before.
Stevenson has said—we quote from memory and not with exactitude, "There is one person whom it is my duty to make good, that is myself.
