The Postmaster General has completed and forwarded to the Secretary of the Treasury the estimates for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907.
The declaration, "Be ye therefore perfect," cannot possibly mean that we must attain to perfection instantly; it recognizes the necessity of gradual growth into perfection.
We
are sometimes asked for advice as to how greater growth of Christian Science may be brought about in communities wherein the work has been established for some considerable time, yet the organized church or society has not advanced in membership as rapidly as have similar organizations in other places.
The
recent Inter-Church Conference held in New York City has given rise to much discussion among religious people, which it is to be hoped will result in a better understanding of what really constitutes a Christian.
The
so-called broadening of religious thought in late years has been very marked, and in so far as the change has signified an increase of charitableness and consideration for the convictions of others, it is an occasion for thanksgiving.
with contributions from Silas E. Wightman, Thomas A. Ainsworth, Otis E. Dewey, Ray Eldon Scott, Clara C. Showers, Gustaf Hultman
[The following letter from the West is so expressive of the true Christian spirit which should animate our work in connection with the building of the extension to The Mother Church, that we are prompted to a fervent "God bless you!" —Editor.
I have learned to know and love Christian Science during the last year and a half, and have had constant help from it in every way, both for mind and body.
It is nearly eight years since I first heard of Christian Science; then, a woman who had been saved by this healing truth when she had been given up by her physicians, told me of the wonderful power which had saved her.
Perhaps my happiest experience in Christian Science has been the realization that although our text-book treats of "the deep things of God," it yet teaches us how to perform the simplest daily duties in the best possible way.
I was a sufferer from heart and stomach complaints of many years' standing until two years ago, when in a public library in London I read a Christian Science Journal containing the "Los Angeles Case.
It is now five years since Christian Science came to our home, bringing health where disease had been; assurance, where fear had reigned supreme; faith, where doubt and ignorance had held control.
Having received so many blessings through Christian Science, I feel it my duty to acknowledge the triumph of Truth over consumption, palpitation of the heart, weakness, and other ailments.
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