When
we hope to learn something without seriously disturbing our present beliefs, or when we refuse to investigate carefully because we think our meagre research has shown us the fallacy of the subject under consideration, then we are apt to stagnate, and there can be no progress.
with contributions from V. Edna Henson, Genevieve N. Layton
The Christian Scientists of Canyon City, Texas, have purchased a plot of ground one block from the public square, and built thereon a reading room where they now hold regular services.
A surplus
of one hundred and twenty-five dollars having accumulated in the general fund of our Sunday School, the thought occurred that it be transferred to our local church building fund; but upon remembering that the Mother Church Building Fund was still incomplete, we knew our first love and duty were due the latter, and we have accordingly sent a draft for the above amount to Mr.
In recent years quite a number of educational institutions have been established which have been referred to or advertised as "Christian Science schools," and because of this designation the impression has gone out that they are in some manner a part of our denominational institutions.
It
is not unusual for those coming to Christian Science to make very large demands upon it in the way of insistence that their every problem, physical and metaphysical, shall be promptly solved.
So long as war continues no one can claim that the moral and intellectual faculties of the race are greatly in the ascendancey, or that the animal does not dominate mortal man.
with contributions from Charles J. Prentiss, Nellie L. Hoffman, F. L. Savory, Elia E. Williams, Louise F. Kollmorgen, Thos, J. Holderness, Hattie S. Gale
It is a great pleasure to give expression to the gratitude I feel for the renewed strength and hope which have come into my life through the light of Truth as revealed by the teaching of Christian Science.
Christian Science was brought to my notice more than a dozen years ago, by its slipping in nearly unawares and doing some good healing work in my family.
Two and a half years ago, I searched the magazines and papers for anything which might throw light on the problem of existence, and I found an article in the North American Review on Christian Science and eagerly read it.
In Science and Health we read, "Until the advancing age admits the efficacy and supremacy of Mind, it is better to leave surgery, and the adjustment of broken bones and dislocations to the fingers of a surgeon, while you confine yourself chiefly to mental reconstruction and the prevention of inflammation".
As I am deprived, at present, of an opportunity to attend meetings or church, I wish to express through the Sentinel my sincere gratitude for the great blessing Christian Science has been to me.
In the fall of 1900, my need for something more satisfying and effective for health, for the government of my children, and for my own thought, became so great that I decided to try the last resort: namely, Christian Science.
Etta C. Bock
with contributions from Charles K. Skinner
When I think of what I once was, and compare it with my present condition, words fail to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me.
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with contributions from Charles J. Prentiss, Nellie L. Hoffman, F. L. Savory, Elia E. Williams, Louise F. Kollmorgen, Thos, J. Holderness, Hattie S. Gale