May 28, 1904
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Postmaster-General Payne announces that the receipts of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending July 1st next.
The
Scriptural statement that man must work out his own salvation invests time with vital interest and value for him who would achieve that salvation, for his ultimate triumph over evil will be hastened or deferred according to the right or wrong use he makes of his time.
"Recollect
that Science reveals Spirit, Soul, as not in the body, and God as not in man, but as reflected by man".
I have
a beautiful hydrangea which I call my Christian Science plant because it was raised from a little, crushed and wilted slip, and because it has reminded me so forcibly of the passage of Scripture which says that God made "every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew.
A wood-thrush
sang to a child one day,Sang from his hedge in the garden-way,Atilt where blossoming branches sway.
A critic complains that Christian Science does not satisfy a philosophic inquiry by its statements as to the origin of evil and the nature of death.
Some months ago an article entitled, "Shall Christian Scientists be Persecuted?
Christian Scientists take the whole promise of immunity from disease, but not in the spirit of bravado that a critic suggests.
Christian Science classifies the spiritual as the real and eternal, and matter as the temporal and phenomenal.
A representative gathering of people filled every portion of First Church of Christ, Scientist, at three different services, yesterday [April 24].
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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.
The
Bible is full of contrasts, but none more striking than that presented by the last verse of the sixth chapter of Mark's gospel and the first two verses of the seventh chapter.
A very
striking but entirely explicable phase of the irrepressible conflict between the spiritual and the material has presented itself in a rather undignified interchange of condemnatory compliments between some of the prominent ministers and the equally prominent physicians of one of our cities.
I should be very happy if the story of my healing by Christian Science treatment were to serve the purpose of helping some one else out of trouble as I was helped in my hour of great need; for my case certainly was man's extremity which is always God's opportunity.
As a mother of a family my heart goes out in love and gratitude to that good woman we are privileged to call our Leader, for all she has done through her book for me and mine.
Had I understood these beautiful words from our Christian Science Hymnal nearly six years ago I would not have left my old home and dear friends with a heart full of regret and despair.
Wishing to add my testimony to many others, I would state that before hearing of Christian Science I was about as low as I could be and live, having locomotor ataxia, rheumatism, nervous spasms, and several other complaints.
On a stone over the entrance of my old home, is the Bible inscription, "Seek, and ye shall find.
Having received so much help through Christian Science I wish to add my testimony to that of others, hoping it will help some one.
I would like to tell of an incident that happened to me at school two years ago last October.
For a number of years I was a slave to the demon of liquor, but Christian Science has made me a free man; "Love and Truth make free".
In September, 1899, I first heard of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G.
It is nearly two years since I was healed by Christian Science.
I would like to tell of one of the many benefits received during the past four years from the study of Christian Science.
I have often wished to express my heartfelt gratitude to our beloved Leader for the perfect health I now enjoy through Christ and Christian Science, for I was given up by the doctors as incurable.
The other day my little girl, aged six, was overheard talking to a little friend of hers who for many years has had to go about on crutches.
The non-Christian has a right to expect that the Christian will be more than an average man in goodness.
