In
the National Museum at Washington is a department devoted to the History of Medicine, which aims to present the chronological development of materia medica, and which affords a striking illustration of the erroneous derivation of the "science" which claims to heal suffering humanity by means of matter.
Among
the very interesting Biblical narratives, the true meanings of which have been unfolded to me by the light of our text-book, Science and Health, none have impressed my thought more forcibly than the story of Naaman in Second Kings.
As
the individual student advances in Christian Science, and the deep things of life begin to be understood in part, and take on even deeper significance because of the budding and unfolding of truth in his consciousness, one of the lessons which is sure to be learned in time, and generally in a short time, is that Christian Science reveals a Principle from which can be logically explained all things that come up in daily life, and therefore one is no longer obliged to dismiss as unexplainable, or charge to chance the things that come into his experience.
One
of the blessings that follows the study and demonstration of Christian Science is the continual unfoldment, expansion, and elevation of our thought of God.
Editor
with contributions from Ida G. Stewart, Mary Baker Eddy
The
second annual meeting of The General Association of Teachers in the United States was held at Chicago, October 24 and 25, and was largely attended by members from practically every state in the Union.
One
of the addresses delivered upon the occasion of the dedication of a monument to the memory of the Jewish soldiers who died in the Civil War has occasioned no little comment, and this is not to be wondered at in view of its radical plea for the righteousness and necessity of war.
The second Annual Meeting of The General Association of Teachers is another milestone passed in the forward march of Christian Science, and the spirit which characterized it, no less than the number of those in attendance, gave proof of the good already accomplished by this agency.
There'
s nothing that wins like winsomeness, and many a man's determination and consequent career for good could be traced to some very simple but very genuine expression of the spirit of Christian brotherhood.
Again,
according to press reports, a physician of prominence, speaking before the National Prison Congress, has strongly urged the wisdom and necessity of relieving the communal burdens by painlessly ending the life of the "mentally irresponsible," the "hopelessly defective," that these unfortunates may find their only means of escape from unspeakable conditions.
For the benefit of those who may be discouraged by delayed results, or who may be similarly afflicted, I wish to relate the healing of my niece, who was injured in an accident which occurred five years ago while she was spending the summer in a small country place.
I can no longer refrain from expressing my deep gratitude for the great blessings which I and my family have received since we came into Christian Science.
It is now seventeen years since my attention was first called to Christian Science through the healing of a friend who had been a great sufferer from asthma.
Three years ago, in a time of great need, and in answer to a life's unceasing quest of truth, a heart's constant hunger for love, I found in Christian Science the revelation of Truth that met and satisfied all my needs,—healed all my ills.
When I began to read The Christian Science Journal I thought it must be the truth, but I was afraid that if I accepted Christian Science I would have to give up my dear orthodox church, so I laid the literature aside and expected never to have anything more to do with it.
If one were to ask for the causes of that decay of conviction which has come upon so large a part of Christendom, he might discover that it lies in the cowardice which dares not make its venture, take its chance and unfurl its sail to the winds of truth.
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