Between seven and eight hundred delegates to the World's Fourth Sunday School Convention to be held at Jerusalem, April 18, 19, and 20, sailed from the North German Lloyd pier at Hoboken at 3 P.
As Christian Scientists, we are many times asked to state in a word what Christian Science teaches, and I always refer such inquirers to our church tenets.
Throughout
the history of the children of Israel we find a conspicuous separation from the customs and practices of other nations, and this was made necessary by their laws and the teachings of their prophets.
That the curative power was not in the clay is evident from the fact that the blind man whose eyes Jesus had anointed with spittle and clay was commanded to go and wash.
In his conversation with the woman of Samaria at the well, Jesus not only revolutionized the Samaritan ideas of worshiping God in a particular mountain, but he also spoke in favor of a departure from the ancient Jewish custom of worshiping God at Jerusalem, offering as his reason therefor his clear and pointed definition of God as Spirit.
It was not for physical healing that I came into Christian Science, but because I recognized it immediately as the teaching of Christ Jesus,—primitive Christianity,—but my healing came afterward.
Christian Science came to me when I was a miserable woman chained with muscular rheumatism, so-called, and with nothing to look forward to but an invalid's chair.
It is nearly three years since I began the study of Christian Science, and no words can express the joy and uplifting which I experienced as I realized that I had found the truth for which I had prayed.
I desire to tell others how wonderfully I am assimilating this blessed Science, which gives me such freedom from sorrow, sin, sickness, and trouble of any kind.
I was able to have some few months of treatment and occasional visits to a dear Christian Science practitioner whose loving ministry proved very helpful at that time, as well as on many subsequent occasions.
A few weeks ago I attempted to catch one of our horses which had escaped from the stable, and just as I was about to take her by the forelock, she turned and kicked me high above the knee, throwing me some distance with great violence.
It is not, on the face of it, easy to understand why a gross and notorious sinner should be nearer to God's kingdom of grace than the intelligent and cultured transgressor whose outward life conforms to the standards of decorum.
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