April 1, 1905
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Minister Bowen at Caracas, acting under instructions, inquired of Venezuela whether she was willing to submit to arbitration on the New York and Bermudez and Critchfield asphalt cases, the case of the expulsion of Editor Jaurett, and the revision of the award made in 1903 to the Orinoco Steamship Company.
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of the first demands upon the student of Christian Science, is that for absolute honesty.
The
statement that a Christian Scientist's religion is applicable to the every-day affairs of the business man, usually arouses, in the minds of those not possessing an understanding of this Science, opposition varying from incredulity to downright condemnation of such a course as being a sacrilegious desecration of sacred things for money-getting.
Lady Victoria Murray, First Reader of the newly erected church in Victoria Park, Manchester, forwards us the following letter, which is sufficiently lucid to speak for itself:—
Since the McMullen bill to prohibit Christian Science healing in Nebraska has been pending in the Senate, having first passed the House, there have been many protests received against its favorable consideration.
At the meeting of the Congregational ministers in this city yesterday morning, Christian Science and the Christian Scientists were discussed.
In asking that they be given control of the issuance, or refusal to issue, of Christian Science certificates to heal the medical doctors have not professed to know much about prayer.
Our little society of Christian Scientists is now well located in a nice room on the ground floor in the new Empire Theatre.
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The Ninth Street Temple was filled yesterday afternoon, and those present listened to an eloquent and scholarly statement of the great and advancing cause of Christian Science.
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A lecture on Christian Science, under the auspices of The Mother Church, will be delivered by Mrs.
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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.
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The next admission of candidates to membership in The Mother Church will be June 6, 1905.
It is a little over a year since I was first brought face to face with Christian Science.
My wife and I became interested in Christian Science ten years ago, at first through the healing of our daughter of astigmatism, and this circumstance caused me to investigate personally the teachings of Christian Science.
For thirteen years I was almost a confirmed invalid, suffering from an injury of the spine caused by a severe jar received when jumping from a carriage, and producing acute inflammation and double curvature of the spine, together with nervous prostration,—announced as such by several physicians, including one specialist.
I feel called upon to give a brief testimony to the wonderful healing power of Christian Science.
I was called to see Mrs.
For some ten or twelve years I had on the back of my neck a large lump, which my physician said was a cyst or small tumor, not dangerous, and removable by the knife or electric needle.
It is with pleasure that I tell what Christian Science has done for me.
I suffered for fifteen years the most intense agony, it seems to me no one could have suffered more.
In grateful acknowledgment of the many blessings received through Christian Science, I send these words to others who are seeking truth.
I became interested in Christian Science about eleven years ago, and was healed of neuralgia of the stomach, from which I had suffered from a child.
It was in 1889 that I first heard of Christian Science, and that it healed without the aid of materia medica; also that it was the Christ-healing,—the same that Jesus wrought and taught his disciples.
"What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?
Truth dawned on my consciousness in my darkest hours.
In
silence tender, magic, deft,The hand of Love transforms the earth,'Till not a barren twig is leftTo mar the joys of life's new birth.
The one important reason for a genuine unity of Christians is expressed by Christ himself when he prayed for his disciples, "that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.
