To make the final payments to the Panama Canal Company and the Republic of Panama it is probable that another call on the banks for about $20,000,000 will have to made.
A measure
recently introduced in the Iowa Legislature illustrates the necessity for careful and prayerful watchfulness upon the part of Christian Scientists.
As
we see the benefits resulting from Christian Science treatment in our own cases or the cases of others of which we have positive and undoubted knowledge, as we read in our periodicals of innumerable cases healed through Christian Science after so-called medical science had failed, we are no longer surprised at its rapid spread, or that the question, "What is Christian Science?
It
has been the custom of the modern church to attach more and more importance to the celebration of the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion, and to-day this celebration is regarded by numbers of good Christians as the principal and all-important part of their religious observances.
We
print in another column a letter from a minister of the Methodist Church, written after he had attended a Wednesday evening meeting in one of the churches of our denomination, and it is interesting to note the impression the meeting made upon him.
It
is difficult to keep pace with the advance of a more consistent and liberal thought respecting the fundamental doctrines of Christianity, and heresy hunters must be in despair of ever being able to cope with what they are in the habit of naming "an alarming situation.
At
this season the earth is being prepared for seed-sowing, and there is something very touching in the familiar process which ever recalls our entire dependence upon the divine presence and activity, since it is "God that giveth the increase.
The
Field will please take notice that the authorized periodicals of the Christian Science denomination are published by The Christian Science Publishing Society, Boston, Mass.
Christian Science has proved to me that "the word of God is quick and powerful," for nothing but this word of Truth could have freed me from the material laws under whose bondage I had served for many years.
In the fall of 1896 my husband, who worked in a shop, accidentally struck his left hand on an emery wheel, making a large hole in the hand and severing the cords.
Having received so much benefit from reading the testimonies of others, I feel it a duty and a privilege to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done, and is doing for me.
When passing through the deepest waters of my life, the truth came to me through a Christian Scientist, and I was led to drink at the fountain of divine Love.
Christ is the way to Christ, and the sooner we enter that way by appropriating his teaching and growing into his spirit, the sooner shall we come to that end that is the true attitude for the soul and its true rest and joy.
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