Last
summer was one of great joy and manifold blessings increased by the pleasure derived from the opportunity of visiting a number of Christian Science congregations, outside of the large cities and sometimes in country districts.
It
was long after midnight and the room was silent save for the regular breathing of a sleeping child, whose mother was walking restlessly up and down the room.
No one but a Christian Scientist can possibly offer a "scientific explanation of the cures made by Christian Scientists," and the reason for this is at once apparent to any one who will give the matter a moment's thought and attention.
In spite of the contemporary theory relative to microscopic life, materia medica is as far as ever from explaining the final origin and ultimate source of disease, and from having found a scientific cure.
Christian Scientists do not promise specific results to their patients, as they know from experience that great differences exist in individual cases, and whereas many are healed instantaneously, other cases are slow, and some do not respond at all.
Editor
with contributions from Mary Hatch Harrison, Mary B. G. Eddy
We
are pleased to have permission to publish the following correspondence, which tells of an interesting episode of the recent dedicatory services in Concord.
We
have been advised of the circulation of a rumor that the total amount necessary for the completion of the new edifice of the Mother Church in Boston is "promised or pledged," and that the Field is therefore released from the necessity of sending further contributions to the Treasurer.
A Very
learned theologian, whose fame is abroad in all the world, has recently declared with emphasis that an imperative need of the present religious situation is a more highly educated ministry, a distinct advance in its scholastic equipment.
For a good many years of my life I was a member of an orthodox church, an officer and worker in it, until I could no longer possibly affiliate with it because of the doctrines which it taught.
Christian Science came to me at a time when in physical distress from nervous dyspepsia, accompanied with insomnia and extreme physical weakness and mental depression, a depression so great at times that a desire for death was difficult to overcome.
It has been a question with me why many of us have been so slow to accept Christian Science, when we see again the unmistakable signs of Christ's power to heal and save by the application of its teachings.
I feel that it is time for me to make some acknowledgment of the many blessings I have received through Christian Science, although it would be impossible for me to mention the hundredth part of what has been done for myself and family.
Per capita taxes, contributions to the Mother Church, or contributions to the Building Fund, should be sent by check, post-office money order, or express money order.
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