Naturalists
report that the young of partridges, bred in districts in England where a certain kind of clay abounds, suffer from a peculiar misfortune known as the "balling.
Think
ye of Mind as but a transient force,A temporal power within the human breast,Destroyed when sin has run its wanton courseAnd wayward man at last is laid at rest?
In your issue of Sunday, January 29, appeared an article concerning the death of a little boy under Christian Science treatment, in which it is stated that the doctors claimed that his life might have been saved if a physician had been called, and anti-toxine used.
If other demoninations never failed in what they consider their God-given means of reformation, or if there never were failures on the part of other systems of healing, the objection to the failures of Christian Scientists might be a valid one.
About fourteen years ago, our city was presented with false metaphysical teaching; the teachers never openly advanced or advocated Christian Science, but formulated lessons of their own, which were made up in a large measure of Christian Science statements.
The
story of the walk to Emmaus, on an afternoon which had been darkened by crushing disappointment, illustrates a human tendency that still abides to the serious disadvantage of our spiritual realization and ministry.
Though
there may be a very general disagreement as to the best means of promoting the moral and intellectual advancement of the race, there is no question as to its desirability.
My attention was first called to Christian Science about the year 1887, through the healing of my father of asthma, he having left his home in Lynn, Mass.
The calmness, zeal, and heaven-born love manifested by the Christian Scientists whom I first met, appealed to me as being the expression of the holiness for which I longed.