May 6, 1905
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The recommendation which the Naval Board of Construction has made to the Secretary of the Navy for the construction of the three scout cruisers—Chester, Salem, and Birmingham—contemplate that the Fore River Shipbuilding Company build two of the vessels,—one equipped with reciprocating engines, the other with turbine engines; the Bath.
SOME
weeks ago, during a series of evangelistic meetings held in a Western city, the attention of a Christian Scientist was especially directed to this subject, "Get right with God," which had been announced for discussion at a specified time.
IN
a year full of blessings, one great gift came to me through our beloved Leader's Dedication Address to the Concord Church, and I should be ungrateful indeed did I not recognize the give with the gift.
THOSE
critics of Christian Science who contend that good and evil are co-related and so blend into one another that no clear separation is possible, need to have it pointed out to them that such a conclusion rests upon false dualistic premises and that no amount of reasoning from this standpoint can give them the needed information.
THE
richer significance of brotherhood, as revealed in the teaching of our text-book, came to me a short time ago.
As one listened recently in a Wednesday evening meeting of Christian Scientists to their testimonies of good works, — the healing of sorrow, sickness, and sin, —and remembered that all over this country and in many other parts of the world similar meetings, with like exalted testimonies, were being held every Wednesday evening in the year, it was all at once seen, and with great joy, that in Christian Science is to be found what the Apostle Paul saw when he wrote to the Romans and to all the world of "the glorious liberty of the children of God.
WHILE
our Leader's beautiful hymn, "O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind," was being sung at the Sunday morning service a few weeks ago, I suddenly realized that I was not singing in time or tune with those around me.
Broad
meadows clothed with tenderest green,And patient trees their leaves just showing.
The State of Ohio has declared that it is a violation of law for a Christian Scientist to treat a patient for a fee, but it leaves the door wide open for the Scientists to practise so long as no fee is named.
Some of our Presbyterian brethren have become unduly excited over what they are pleased to call "the heresies of Christian Science.
Admitting all that can possibly be deducted for exaggeration in many ways, there still remains a large number of well-authenticated cases cured by this system of treatment without medical agencies.
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Union Hall was well filled yesterday afternoon [March 12] to listen to Judge Septimus J.
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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.
A clergyman
who recently attacked Christian Science, asks, "Now, whose diagnosis declared these ailments to be such diseases?
In
contrast with much religious thought of the past, which, through false veneration, has come under the bondage of superstition, mortal sense is now swinging to the opposite extreme of irreverent questioning, and to-day there are those who in all soberness deny the possibility of phenomena of our Saviour's life in which the faith of Christianity has always been centered.
The
Psalmist's query, "What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?
Christian Science has been the light of my life for seventeen years.
Before coming to Christian Science for the help I needed, I had pondered often over the "God" and "heaven" of which I had been taught; but my pondering was a groping in darkness where no ray of light might enter.
To tell of all the benefits received through Christian Science would be impossible, for their name is legion; but some of the good things which this blessed truth has brought to me stand out prominently, and for these and all I am deeply grateful to God and to our dear Leader.
In 1897 the truth was being whispered to me, though I then knew nothing of the teaching of Christian Science that heals and saves, but it told me there was something better than anything I then possessed.
When Christian Science first found me, four years ago, I think it would have been hard to find a more unhealthy, unhappy, and discordant person.
Eight years ago I came to California for the climate, a broken-down, discouraged woman, with a supposedly incurable disease.
Never so much as in the last few days have I realized what a privilege it is to be a Christian Scientist.
I have felt it my duty for several months to tell what Christian Science has done for me.
In the spring of 1903, while playing with some schoolmates, my collar-bone was broken.
Eleven years ago two Christian Science ladies called at our home in Lexington, Ky.
The Bible teaches that we need not fear poison of any sort.
I should like to express my great gratitude for Christian Science,—the message of God,—revealed to us through our Leader, Mrs.
I desire to acknowledge some of the benefits received through Christian Science, which was brought to my notice in an hour of great need, when bound by the sense of sin and sickness.
The blessings I have received through Christian Science have been numerous.
For thirty years I was a member of an orthodox church, and a sincere seeker for the truth, but I was groping in the darkness of materialism, where the light shone in the darkness, but the darkness comprehended it not.
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The next admission of candidates to membership in The Mother Church will be June 6, 1905.
