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.
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.
with contributions from MARY B. G. EDDY, Lida S. Stone, Harry T. Wilson.
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.
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.
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.
ROSALIND ROBERTS
with contributions from RUTH V. BROWN, MARY A. LINDSEY, ELIZABETH EARL JONES, ALICE B. POWELL, THOMAS M. HENRY, GEO. S. POWELL, CLARA A. ORRILL
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.
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.
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ROSALIND ROBERTS
with contributions from RUTH V. BROWN, MARY A. LINDSEY, ELIZABETH EARL JONES, ALICE B. POWELL, THOMAS M. HENRY, GEO. S. POWELL, CLARA A. ORRILL