August 20, 1904
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Three important recommendations will be embodied in the forthcoming report of the Commissioner General of Immigration, as follows: That a law be enacted requiring medical inspection of emigrants at points of embarkation in Europe: that the Chinese Exclusion Act be strengthened by the assignment of American officials to duty at American consulates in China, empowered to examine the certificates of all persons who desire to visit the United States: that appropriations be made for the erection of additional buildings and providing better facilities for the reception of immigrants at Ellis Island, New York.
The
greater part of the discoveries concerning any of the sciences known to man, has resulted from the effort to acquire a knowledge of the actual truth about existing things.
Our
environments are varied, and we have to meet some phase of material sense daily.
Through long centuries of possible development, mortals have been awakening to the larger meaning of brotherhood.
"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
"Except
ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
When
I was healed in Christian Science, the truth of it, the blessings that it brings, and the reformation it produces, appealed to me so strongly that I desired more than anything else to become a good Scientist and an earnest worker, and how to begin aright was the question that confronted me.
Since so much has been said in the public press with reference to a recent By-law of the Christian Science Church, restraining its members from interfering with Mrs.
While the canker of sin and the anguish of disease seem to afflict the human race so severely, there is ample room for every minister, physician, nurse, Christian Scientist, and lover of men to work, each with the light he has, in harmonious unity and loving kindness, for the elevation of mankind and their liberation from the hoary bondage of unholiness and ignorance.
Christian Science is the amplification and exemplification of the natural law which controls the universe and man.
We do not deny that healing the sick in Christian Science is a metaphysical process, for surely it is not a material practice.
One of the unanswerable arguments in favor of Christian Science lies in the fact that it is capable of proof, and is applicable as a practical religion.
If a tree is to be judged by its fruit, then Christian Science is entitled to a most worthy place as a means of alleviating the suffering of mankind, inasmuch as it has established its right to be so honored by healing thousands of cases of what is ordinarily termed incurable disease, in addition to its many other wonderful works.
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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
following rather pointed arraignment of "the great majority of nominal Christians" copied from a recent issue of The Universalist Leader, should have the effect of stimulating every Christian, "nominal" or otherwise, to a searching self-examination which will disclose his true status as a follower of Christ Jesus.
The
marvelous changes which are taking place in religious thought to-day are scarcely more astonishing than is the apparent incapacity or indisposition of some to recognize their true explanation.
One of the most comfort-bearing of the many comforting messages to be found in Science and Health is, that "Divine Love always has met, and always will meet, every human need".
It is now two years since Christian Science came to our home to feed our hungry hearts and lead us gently into the understanding of Truth.
About a year ago I had what was to me a very decisive demonstration, and for the second time my life was saved by the truth as taught in Christian Science.
As I review the blessings that have been mine with even a partial understanding of this truth as given to us through the revelation of her who has been taught of God, I find their number is legion.
A year ago last March, Christian Science came to me and I supposed that in common with that of other churches this was a beautiful religion, but the healing by the prayer of understanding I could not then grasp or believe.
About four years ago, the light of Christian Science was shed upon my consciousness.
A few years ago, before I heard of Christian Science, I had a serious illness resulting from a cold, a form of indisposition to which I was very subject.
I have received so much benefit from reading the testimonies in the Sentinel and Journal that I am prompted to give mine in the hope that it may help some one who is striving to believe that God is Love, that He made man perfect, and that there is no power to make him sick or sinful.
With deepest gratitude to God and to our dear Leader I submit this testimony.
About fifteen years ago I was healed through Christian Science of stomach and liver trouble which I had had from childhood.
I would like to tell of my healing through Christian Science.
Up to four years ago I suffered from a complication of diseases, such as stomach trouble of long standing, frequent severe headaches, kidney trouble, which the physicians pronounced Bright's disease, and finally inflammation of the bladder set in.
I have been very much helped by reading many of the testimonies in the Sentinel and Journal, and should like in return to help others by telling a little of what Christian Science has done for me.
One finely says that the Gospels are only a page from the eternal diary of Christ.
