The Acting Secretary of the Navy, has by letter informed the contractor who had made arrangements with the Cuban Gov-ernment to remove the wreck of the Maine, that the Navy Department has no authority either to abandon the vessel or to permit its removal.
WE
are indebted to the Concord Evening Monitor and the Concord Daily Patriot for the following account of the very interesting and helpful meeting held in the new church edifice, Wednesday, July 20.
THE
Scriptural text, "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent," made very little impression upon me until through Christian Science, I began to have a definite understanding of God and to apply it to the every-day affairs of life.
WHILE
forty years is but a short time in which to introduce a new system of healing, yet its adherents are quite willing that the present results of Christian Science should be compared, patient for patient, with the results of materia medica, after two thousand five hundred years of experimental practice.
We
have recently received several papers which are clearly within the class of unauthorized literature referred to in the Sentinel of August 15 and September 19, 1903, and as these papers seem to be in constant circulation, we feel justified in republishing the editorial of the latter date.
A MINISTERIAL
friend once said to the writer that in his judgment "it is criminal to ignore the deductions of medical Science!" This good brother is a representative of many who seem to be quite ignorant of the very rapid and very general awakening of physicians, as well as their longsuffering patients, to the fallacy, the utterly unscientific nature of the whole drug system.
Though young in Science we have had several demonstrations in our family that assure us of the benefits derived from even a little understanding of Christian Science.
It is three years since I became interested in the study of Christian Science, and the many blessings I have received within that time would take up too much space to tell.
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