It is expected that the commission created by the President to consider the subject of naturalization will be ready to report at the next session of Congress.
The
human heart longs for ease, for present comfort of the flesh, saying within itself, that this world were quite heaven enough, could its promises be kept and its joys be made permanent.
Some
five years ago, adrift amidst angry waves of illness and despair, I was toiling at the oars when, in the teaching of Christian Science, Christ came walking upon the sea and there was a great calm.
What the Nebraska legislature proposes to do is not entirely clear, but the dispatches say that a bill has been reported from the committee of the whole which provides that "it shall be unlawful for any person to attempt to cure mental or physical ailments, real or imaginary, for pay, without first obtaining a license to practise the healing art from the state board of health.
As we understand the office of the Christian ministry, it is to teach by example and precept the highest spiritual import of the Bible, to promulgate, elucidate, and make practical the teachings of Jesus Christ; and he who falls short of this defaults in his holy mission.
That the old-fashioned "Now I lay me" is no longer universally approved is shown in the following press dispatch which recently appeared in several daily papers.
The objections which a reverend critic maintains against Christian Science seem to be based upon its departure from the teachings of the established schools of theology.
with contributions from Clarence A. Buskirk, Joseph Chez, W. R. Hammond, F. L. Buzzell
An interesting lecture was delivered under the auspices of the Christian Science churches of Texas at Hancock Opera House, on Thursday evening [February 2], by Hon.
Most
of us can remember the time, not so very long ago, when the fortunate possessor of a strong and healthy body was looked upon as a person in whom the spiritual nature was entirely lacking or, at the most, only superficially developed, and the clergyman who happened to be blessed with an abundance of health and bodily vigor was secretly suspected of being no better than Friar Tuck.
Many
a weary and discouraged soul has been attracted to Christian Science by hearing the testimony of those who witness that it has brought them not only surcease of pain, but rest of mind and content of heart, and through misapprehension there are those who have been led to think that to become a student of Christian Science is immediately to find that exemption from the struggle for subsistence and success which enters so largely into the world's sense of happiness.
The
inaugural address of President Roosevelt has been read with interest in all parts of the world, an interest which attaches not so much to the immediate occasion as to the fact that the ideals of a great and free nation are necessarily expressed at such a time.
How can I let the months pass by while my life is so filled with the blessings that have come to me through Christian Science, and not make some acknowledgement of it?
Christian Science has done so much for me, both spiritually and physically, that life wears a totally different aspect, and my heartfelt thanks are due to God for revealing His truth to Mrs.
During the year and a half in which I have been interested in Christian Science, I have had many proofs in myself of the physical healing, and not alone in the physical, but harmony has been expressed in my daily life.