The Secretary of the Interior reports that 19,431,187 acres of public lands were disposed of during the year, of which 1,774,341 acres were sold for cash.
Christian Scientists
are not engaged in building up a material sense of existence, nor in governing their affairs according to material standards, but rather are they concerned in learning the spiritual meaning of all that pertains to their well-being.
It
is sometimes assumed that Christian Scientists are oblivious of, or indifferent to, certain deplorable conditions which appear in the present state of society, because they do not use the methods commonly employed to suppress or eradicate these specific phases of evil.
Sufficient time has elapsed since the publication of your report of the paper on Christian Science read at the Lutheran conference at Boyertown to relieve one of any possible charge of acting hastily in offering a reply to the objections lodged against Christian Science in the paper in question.
Christian Science would be very superficial indeed if its results in business or in other departments of human experience depended upon the thinking of other people.
Christian Science maintains that violation of God's law alone should bring suffering, and the study and application of this teaching is enabling the Christian Scientist to distinguish between that which human theory and tradition call law and the unchanging law of a just and loving God, thus making him willingly obedient to this law and its demands.
While Christian Scientists accept the Scriptural account of the miraculous feeding of thousands, they do not believe that Jesus mesmerized the multitudes into believing that they had partaken of food that had only a fabulous existence, but that he actually multiplied the food through his higher understanding of the creative power of divine Mind.
In reference to our critic's objection to the Christian Science interpretation of the Holy Ghost, Christian Science teaches that the Comforter promised by our Lord is the spiritual consciousness of the omnipresence of God as divine Love,—the unfolding of the spiritual unity of God and man,—and the revelation to man's consciousness that the "Spirit of truth" is come and is leading him "into all truth;" that, as a result of this spiritual illumination, he may accomplish, through divine power, the mighty works indicated by Jesus when he declared, "Greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Some
of those who criticise Christian Science do so under the impression that it is not Scriptural, and that its adherents do not study the Bible; but this is a great mistake, as there are no people who,as a class, give so much time and attention to earnest, systematic Bible study as do Christian Scientists.
with contributions from H. Cornell Wilson, Agnes A. Killin, Helen Runyon Baldwin, Bertha H. Woods, Carrie A. McFarland, John O. Bartlett, Annah T. Norton, Frank Weston, Mary B. Mosher, Henry Grant Hogg, Rosemary Baum, Josephine Snyder, Ellen Law Percy, Nellie H. Matthews, Rosella Wilson
The picture of The Mother Church and its Extension which The Christian Science Publishing Society now has for sale is a half-tone reproduction, 12 × 15 inches in size, of a view giving the St.
H. Baumann
with contributions from R. L. Henry, Jr.
I gladly give testimony that Christian Science has healed me of kidney trouble of many years' standing, which had affected me so that I was afraid of losing my reason.
It is with heartfelt gratitude that I give testimony to the healing power of Christian Science, as shown in the case of our son, fifteen years of ago, in March, 1905.
About four years ago I found it necessary to have some teeth extracted, and the fear of the pain was more than I could overcome, so I went to a Christian Science practitioner, who gave me treatment.
If any person had told me a year ago that I would become a Christian Scientist, I would not have believed it, but I am grateful to God, and to our Leader, for the blessings I now enjoy through Christian Science.
Last April I was suddenly stricken with a severe attack of illness and was carried to a hospital, where I was placed under the care of a physician and nurse, who did all they could for me.
When I became interested in Christian Science, about three years ago, I was eighteen years old and I thought I was as happy as any mortal could be; but through the truth as revealed in our text-book, Science and Health, I have learned what real happiness is.
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with contributions from H. Cornell Wilson, Agnes A. Killin, Helen Runyon Baldwin, Bertha H. Woods, Carrie A. McFarland, John O. Bartlett, Annah T. Norton, Frank Weston, Mary B. Mosher, Henry Grant Hogg, Rosemary Baum, Josephine Snyder, Ellen Law Percy, Nellie H. Matthews, Rosella Wilson