May 21, 1904
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A question which has come prominently to the fore in the proceedings of the Methodist-Episcopal General Conference at Los Angeles, is that involving a change in discipline to the extent of entirely removing the Church ban on dancing, card-playing, and theatre-going.
April
19 and 20 of 1904 should be red letter days in the Christian Science calendar, for upon those dates our National Congress enacted legislation favorable to Christian Science.
One
of the first things the student of Christian Science learns is the meaning of the first commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Once,
long ago, in the Land of Dreams, there was a barren valley where the dense fog had spread its impenetrable blanket so thickly that the blue sky was never seen; the sun never shone into its gloomy depths; the fresh breeze never blew across its sunken wastes.
No
doubt many of us have heard people say that they do not believe the healing can be done now which Jesus did.
We are indebted to the Cleveland Leader and the Cleveland Plain Dealer for the following report of the dedication of the edifice of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Cleveland, May 8.
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The following notice has appeared several issues of the Sentinel, but the Clerk has not received reports from all the Churches.
Whenever a case of sickness treated by Christian Scientists is lost, the fact is telegraphed all over the country as a matter of great news.
The Christian Science teaching that "matter" is phenomenal rather than real is very much misrepresented in order to excite ridicule on the part of those who have never been taught to discriminate between reality and appearance.
Christianity teaches that "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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Bicknell Young of Chicago spoke last night [April 10] at the Oliver Theatre upon the subject of Christian Science.
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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.
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I beg
to inform my beloved members of the Mother Church that the By-law in Article XXVI, of its Manual does not require members of benevolent and progressive organizations, such as the Free Masons, Odd Fellows, temperance societies, and those of similar cult, to resign this membership.
The
statement recently made before the New York Ministers' Conference, that "It is a mistake to say God is omnipotent; He is not omnipotent; He is constantly thwarted and harassed; there are many things He cannot do," has awakened very little protest.
Among
the many interesting letters to our Leader which we are permitted to read in the Sentinel, a recent one from abroad tells of a custom unfamiliar to this country; viz.
The
growth of a larger and truer sense of brotherhood in all the world, is one of the many assurances of the spiritual advance of the race.
There appeared in a recent issue of the Sentinel a testimony of healing, signed Darius Perry, the statements of which are now denied.
In the Sentinel of January 2, 1904, on page 282, there was the following extract from a newspaper: "It taxes the material understanding to agree that prayer will set a fractured limb, or that it will remove a cancerous growth.
I have just returned from a visit with friends in my old home which I left four years ago.
Something over a year ago, an opportunity was given me by kind friends to look into Christian Science, but I thought, I had not the time.
It is with feelings of deepest gratitude to God and to our Leader that I give my testimony in regard to Christian Science.
At a time when death seemed to be confronting me, I finally mastered fear and faced it.
For something like fifteen years I suffered from an ulcerated stomach caused by dyspepsia.
When we get the true healing, the error is so completely erased from our consciousness that the remembrance of former disease and suffering is wholly obliterated, and it is well that it is so.
In the spring of 1880 I was taken down with a severe attack of stomach trouble, was bedfast for three months, and not able to drive out for nearly six months.
The
world is full of sunshine,Is full and running over;It shines in all the cities,It shines on fields of clover.
