The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business April 30, 1904, the debt, less cash in the Treasury, amounted to $918,854,058.
The
story is told of a millionaire's daughter, who said to her father, "If you will give me a cent to-day, and twice that amount to-morrow, and so continue to double the amount each day for a month, I will never ask you for any more allowance.
with contributions from C. B. Morris, Lansing B. Warner, J. W. Sproul
The Pavilion was not crowded last night [April 13], but it has never held a more interested audience than the three hundred people who listened to Edward A.
Thanking the courteous Christian Science lunchers for their respectful attention to our denominational By-law on clubs and organizations, I beg to say: Said By-law prohibits neither informal meetings nor luncheons and select, invited guests.
One
of the arguments frequently used by critics of Christian Science is, that lack of technical medical education renders Christian Scientists incapable of properly diagnosing cases brought to them, and therefore they should not be allowed to treat patients; but if we may judge by the absurdities, contradictions, and inconsistencies of so-called "expert testimony," given by physicians in the courts, the same argument will apply to some members of the medical profession.
Whenever I read the testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals, the thought comes to me to do my duty also and relate how I came to Christian Science and what it has done for me.
Words fail me to express the half of the health, joy, and peace which have come into my life since the light of divine Science dawned upon my darkened sense over ten years ago.
The readers of Der Christian Science Herold may be interested to hear from some one who has used the Bible and Science and Health for eighteen years as the only remedy, not only in sickness but in all other conditions.
Just six years ago I began reading Christian Science, not for physical benefits, but because Science and Health was loaned me by a friend; and the first words I read were grand and beautiful.
It has been pretty generally assumed that the modern industrial development, enormously increasing the temptations to crime, has greatly increased crime.
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