THE
writer has had some strenuous experiences along the line of adjusting supply and demand, which, though not expedient to enumerate in this article, have, nevertheless, been of great value to him in determining the significance of existence, apart from money-getting.
IF
we wish to be true followers of our great Elder Brother, Jesus, should we not strive to emulate his powerful example of simplicity in speech when delivering God's message to our fellow-men?
SEIZE
your staff! beyond this height We shall find the Infinite Light! Gird your thigh! this sword shall hew Paths that reach the untroubled blue! Though dark mountains form the stair, It is ours to climb and dare! Law, truth, love—the peaks are three: Sinai, Olivet, Calvary!
It should not strain our credulity to believe the Scriptural teachings, "With God all things are possible," and God is "a very present help in trouble.
The dilettante may assure himself he knows all about Christian Science, even that he knows more about how the work is done than the Christian Scientist himself, but really no one is competent to say what constitutes Christian Science healing unless he has actually demonstrated the rules laid done in the Christian Science text-book.
THE
humanity of Christ Jesus which made it possible for him to be "in all points tempted like as we are," found a human setting that is common to every clime and every age.
IT
has been said that all things come to those who wait, and in keeping with this familiar adage we note the admission made before the British Medical Association, by one of its members.
I first learned of Christian Science fifteen years ago, through the healing of my sister of neurosis and many other troubles from which she had ceased to look for relief in materia medica.
I glean so much good from the Sentinel that I want my testimony to be counted with the thousands which are leading despairing ones from darkness to light.
To others who have felt the power of Christian Science, and have had a feeling of disappointment that those near and dear to them do not accept it, I would say, Wait, we cannot tell when the seed will spring forth.
I have been healed of epilepsy of several years' standing, and its accompanying disorders, through Christian Science, after receiving treatment for it without avail from a number of the best physicians.
How often, when some cherished wish Love's wisdom has denied, We, in our wilfulness, have mourned And were not satisfied; But when the Horeb heights we gained, Love's wise withholding was explained.
The moral consciousness of the world lies fallow for the call of one who shall be so filled with the power of the Spirit that he shall be completely indifferent to that whole mass of stuff which criticism is discrediting, and who shall dare to make his appeal to the moral idealism of mankind independent of verbiage.