October 7, 1905
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As the result of the vigorous prosecutions of land fraud cases in Oregon about twenty thousand acres of school land situated in the Blue Mountain forest reserve in eastern Oregon have been abandoned by locators, who forfeited in the neighborhood of $10,000.
As each week the Spirit of truth, through our wonderful Lesson-Sermons, unfolds the beauties as well as the power of the Scripture to heal, illumine, and bless humanity; as through the interpretations of our text book the "hidden mysteries" are explained and the Word demonstrated in the healing of sin and disease, we realize more and more that the prophetic hour in its fulfilment has arrived, "and they shall all be taught of God.
Principle
is variously defined as "That from which anything proceeds: a source or origin.
On
no occasion has the loyal, active Christian Scientist better opportunity to reveal the dominant thought of Christianity— selfless love—than at the Wednesday evening meetings.
Paul
said, in speaking to the elders of the church at Ephesus, "Ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Perhaps
no one word is more expressive of that for which the whole world is seeking, consciously or unconsciously, than is the one little word peace, which is just the opposite of all the strife, turmoil, and discord of material sense, the opposite of discontent and dissatisfaction, of disease and fear, of envy, jealousy, and hatred.
Early
one morning, as I was passing through the garden, the shrill, sweet notes of a brown thrush attracted my attention, as he sang in the walnut tree.
Error
in any guise may try to frighten, but it can never make us offenders unless the thing suggested find some response in us.
We read that Jesus, though "in all points tempted like as we are," was "without," or "apart from sin.
We all understand the ideal man in proportion as we gain a true knowledge of God, of whom he is image.
To dispute Christian Science because it pleads the unreality of evil is in effect to question the reality of good Our Saviour did not teach evil to be eternal, He predicted the final destruction of all evil; and the fact that it will eventually be relegated to the realms of the unknown, shows it to lack the inherent stability of good which proves good to be imperishable and eternal.
Christian Science is not "practised in defiance of the laws of nature," as this reverend critic asserts, but logically sustains the laws of nature in the understanding of the fact that laws of nature, so-called, cannot properly be disassociated from the laws of God.
Perhaps the strongest proof we can offer that Christian Science healing is not produced by the power of one human mind over another is the fact that thousands have been healed of sickness and sin simply by reading the Christian Science text-book.
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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.
An
erroneous belief regarding Christian Science is held by many persons; viz.
It
has been said that the cure for the ills of constitutional liberty is more liberty, and with equal propriety it may be said that the cure for the ills of our false sense of life, as we experience them, is a larger, truer sense of Life.
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The rapid increase in the congregation attending The Mother Church has made necessary an additional Sunday morning service.
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The next admission of candidates to membership in The Mother Church will be November 7, 1905.
About three years ago I became interested in Christian Science, having been sick for twenty-eight months with heart trouble and nervous prostration.
I have desired for some time to send a testimony, telling of the power of Truth, and of what Christian Science has done for me.
Over eleven years ago I was healed, through Christian Science, of spinal trouble, astigmatism, and and other ailments from which I had suffered many years.
It is now two years since I became interested in Christian Science, and I desire to testify to the benefits received.
Six years ago Christian Science came to me in an hour of great need, and I was healed in four treatments of old chronic troubles, one of these being farsightedness and unequal focusing of the eyes for which I was sentenced to wear glasses the remainder of my days, by two different specialists.
Many years ago, before Christian Science was practised in this city, I was suffering from what is called the after-effects of diphtheria, which the doctor did not help.
Although the blessings which Christian Science brings to us are manifold, we always remember with an especial sense of gratitude our first healing in the truth.
It is now about eight years since I first learned of Christian Science, through a dear friend who loaned me Science and Health to read.
Some time ago I had retired for the night when I was suddenly seized with a severe pain around the heart.
Having a desire to do as I wish to be done by, I send this testimony.
I feel that I must not longer withhold an expression of gratitude for the ministry of Christian Science.
I came into a knowledge of Christian Science at the age of eighteen, not through healing but simply by reading its literature.
It is nearly two years since I was led to try Christian Science treatment for physical ailments.
Several months ago, while living in Arizona, I had a severe attack of acute indigestion and gastritis.
I should like to tell some of the things that Christian Science has done for our family.
I came to Christian Science because I was hungering and thirsting for love, and for a religion which I could understand, as something seemed to be lacking.
Within the past year I came into Christian Science.
I had always been a delicate woman, and finally arrived at a point where the physician told me that I must undergo an operation which was a matter of life or death.
The
Love that breathed out "Peace, be still!"O'er stormy Galilee,While error's wave made swift response—'Tis this Love loveth thee,Loveth and calmeth thee.
Every important doctrine ever held in any age or nation, and every form of worship, of sacrifice, or religious observance of any kind, has come in the demand to answer some question asked by the mind of man, or to supply the demand of some human longing and desire.
