Because of the great increase in the appropriations for rural delivery, post-office officials say that the idea of one-cent letter postage in the United States must be put aside for many years.
While
Christian Scientists maintain, and rightly so, that the Master's command to heal the sick is just as binding now as it was when given, it is well to remember that his command to preach the gospel has lost none of its force, and is also just as binding upon his followers to-day as in the past.
The problem of human life and man's relation to his Creator has certainly been an enigma to thinking men in all ages, and it is generally conceded that what appears to be perfectly rational to one section of the community often seems quite incredible to another.
A critic objects to the practice of charging a moderate price for the time spent directly for others in the redemptive work of Christian Science, and says in support of this objection, "We have no record of the Divine teacher accepting the slightest remuneration for what he wrought or taught.
We
have been favored with a newspaper clipping which tells of a movement in England to form an association "within the Established Church to revive the teaching and practice of the early centuries concerning Divine healing.
The
subtlest temptations often seem reserved for those who entertain the noblest ideals and who strive the most faithfully and disinterestedly for their attainment.
In view of the bitter experience and long-continued suffering through which I was led to Christian Science, the following statement from Science and Health has special meaning in my case:—
I am so uplifted and happy to-day because of the manifold demonstrations of God's love which I have had since coming into the blessed understanding of Christian Science, that I feel I ought to send in my mite of thanksgiving.
I have lately had a very beautiful demonstration of the power of Divine healing as revealed to us through Christian Science, and it has been such a strong proof to me of the nearness and reality of God that I want to tell it to every one.
Welcome another recruit to the real Army of the Lord which is growing among the ministers and laymen to such proportions that eventually the whole Christian Church will be recalled to its senses, and perceive that its divine mission is not be patch up pleasing and easy conditions under the delusion that they will develop high types of manhood, but to transform individual characters, and through them transform the world.
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