The decision of the overseers of Harvard University means that football is prohibited and that no more contests can be held until radical reforms are made and evidence that the reform are effective is presented.
A letter
recently received from a friend vividly recalls the date June 13, 1888, when our Leader addressed an audience which completely filled Central Music Hall, Chicago, then the largest and best hall in the city.
It
was long my desire to understand the Old Testament, as a well-thumbed first chapter of Genesis would testify, but my interest could never survive its seeming incongruities and I repeatedly abandoned the effort in despair, though I did cling to the familiar Psalms and to the New Testament.
In
the 19th chapter of Genesis we read that Lot, when commanded by God to come out of Sodom, and to escape to the mountain, obeyed only in part and begged that he might tarry in a city not so far off, saying, "Is it not a little one?
Christian Science plants itself unreservedly on the side of spirit and declares that spiritual things are the only real things and that the material universe is a false concept of the corporeal senses and will pass away.
The physical healing in Christian Science is the result of some degree of spiritual regeneration in the individual, or an awakening to that natural, God-given consciousness which has been obscured by erroneous suggestion and false belief.
Christian Science treatment establishes in the consciousness of the individual the wholesome truth that God is his Life, inasmuch as it is in Him we "live, and move, and have our being.
with contributions from J. B. Harsh, Frank B. Stephens, G. Warre Cornish, H. A. Crooks, J. A. Barris, E. C. Kennedy, J. H. Phillips
There was a representative audience present at Patt's Opera House Friday evening [November 24] to hear the lecture on Christian Science delivered by Judge Septimus J.
We
understand that those who have heretofore attempted to obtain legislation opposed to the practice of Christian Science are again active to this end in some of the States, therefore it is important that our people should see to it that all such attempts to curtail individual rights are defeated, as they have been defeated in the past.
Our baby boy, now two years old, was born strong and healthy, to all appearances, and so he continued to be for six months, at which time a great change occurred, and without any known physical cause.
For eight years I was a great sufferer from weak lungs, and after being treated by ten different physicians, in the States of Illinois, Missouri, and Colorado, I was told there was no hope of my recovery from what they pronounced tuberculosis, which was hereditary, my father having been afflicted with it.
I feel that it is not right for me to delay longer in sending my testimony, thus withholding from our Leader, who has labored so lovingly for all mankind, the expression of gratitude due her.
Something over a year ago I was stricken very suddenly with indigestion and nervous prostration, but thanks to Christian Science I was saved from death.
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