President Roosevelt has directed that action be taken by the Administration which will facilitate the landing in this country of Chinese of the exempt classes, and also eliminate from the Immigration Bureau such administrative features as have been the subject of criticism by Chinese.
To keep the impersonal Truth predominant in thought is my constant endeavor, as herein lies the success of our demonstrations, and a proof that this is demonstrable is shown in the following experience.
How tardily is the testimony given in some cases, for the help received in Christian Science; for freedom from the sense of physical suffering; from the cares and anxieties of commercial, competitive strife; from doubt and despondency; from the sin of temper unguarded and unrestrained; and yet all these and many more have been overcome in our own experience, and that of many others, but we hesitate and delay the giving of our testimony, because we fear that our experience is too small to give, or our manner of telling it too uninteresting to convince another.
SOME
persons who have attended our Wednesday evening meetings for the first time have been more or less mystified and unfavorably impressed by the fact that many references are made by the speakers to the great improvement which has taken place in their financial condition since they have accepted Christian Science as their rule of living; and because the connection between sickness and poverty has not been understood, although a little thought upon the subject would have shown them that the two are usually as closely related as parent and child, these investigators have gone away from the meetings in a somewhat dissatisfied frame of mind.
As individuals advance in years, they are very apt to ask themselves, when their birthdays come to remind them of the high hopes with which they set sail on life's voyage, whether or not they have realized these hopes, and thinkers are wont to question the past and the future no less seriously each time the nation's natal day comes with' the revolving years.
THOSE
who are cultivating their acquaintance with the flowers these sunny days, will not doubt the statement that Paradise was a garden, nor question that the roses and lilies are its most fitting symbols.
As a believer in Christian Science, I feel it a pleasant privilege to narrate the circumstances concerning my change of ideas relative to the restoration of health.
To save a sick body I sought Christian Science, but little did I know that the healing of my body was but the call for a full and free salvation from sin-sickness,— from a self-centered life with its resultant defeat.
I have often told others of my experience, and the great benefit which I received from treatment and the study of Christian Science, and hope that some poor sufferers who may read this testimony will be benefited by it.
The miserable life I lived prior to my healing through Christian Science is a story of sin and despair, and let me say right here, that these words of St.
For several summers before coming into Christian Science, I seemed to suffer a great deal from heat, sometimes being nearly prostrated during the hot weather.
The faith of a child is a tender shoot and is not fitted to endure the frost and chill of unbelief, but in itself it is of the purest quality and sweetest spirit.
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