Secretary Taft and Senor Guitterez have reached an agreement to arbitrate the outstanding issue respecting the sale to the Philippine Government of the Dominican Friars' lands, amounting to about 160,000 acres, involving eight Haciendas, valued at about $2,500,000, which amount has been on deposit in New York for more than a year awaiting an agreement between the principals as to the titles to the lands.
That
is a poor general who in time of war leaves camp or fort unguarded or unwatched, at any point or at any hour, for sooner or later he may meet defeat through these very weaknesses, when a proper vigilance might ensure his safety and success.
As
a newspaper man with thirty years' activity in the metropolis of this country, the most interesting phenomenon to me is the mental transformation which is taking place among "my kind.
Recently,
while in the Himalaya Mountains, a party of travelers made the ascent of a high spur, called Tiger Hill, in order to see that rare and beautiful sight, — sunrise on that vast mountain range of which Mt.
with contributions from Alice M. Whyte, Martha H. Gish, Charles L. Van Fossen, Madeline Koons Perrin
We have received an acknowledgment of the receipt of Science and Health, and "Miscellaneous Writings," from the president of the Ashland Public Library, which marks another step forward in the work in this place.
While it is always the duty of all to hold fast to that which is true and to be ready to prove all things, it is nevertheless true that we are too prone to brand everything as heresy which differs from our own cherished opinions.
We
have before us a letter asking whether the holding of the afternoon or evening services referred to in the "Explanatory Note" in The Christian Science Quarterly, is optional with the churches, also whether these services are to be considered simply in the nature of overflow meetings.
It
is most interesting to observe how rapidly the Christian world is coming to accept the teaching of Christian Science, that health is the normal and congruous state in which the spiritually aspiring may and should live; that its freedom and strength belong to the children of God, and are essential to the successful fulfilment of those Christian duties and obligations which the Master's words has imposed upon every believer.
When Christian Science was first brought to my notice some eighteen years ago, I was sorely in need of help, both physically and spiritually, I was suffering from a severe bronchial affection of years' standing, many times losing my voice entirely for days, and I was constantly trying every material remedy I heard of, but with no relict.
In gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me, and the hope that other sufferers may through knowledge of my case be attracted and receive benefits, I want to make a statement of my healing.
Through the solicitation of a dear brother to try Christian Science, as a last help for a serious affection of the knees, I became willing in January, 1903, to do so.
Every
day is your birthday, dear;Every day in all the yearThe loving Father gives to youBirthday gifts all fresh and new:Joyous life that cannot cease,Blessed truth that bringeth peace,Love that doth all good increase.
with contributions from Charles E. Jefferson, C. Ellwood Nash
The pessimism and hopelessness so prevalent to-day, even among professing Christians, are the direct result of a failure to grasp the fundamental doctrine of God's omnipotence.
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