A most important and far-reaching decision, as far as the interstate commerce law is concerned, was delivered last week by the Supreme Court, when by an undivided bench it laid down the new principle that railroads cannot deal in the commodities which they haul over their lines.
When
mortal man comes to understand that the only road leading to heaven is that of right thinking, he will realize the need of working out his own salvation accordingly.
In
talking to those who are seeking help in Christian Science, an expression of anxiety is sometimes heard in this wise: "I have been helped in Science so much, but there is one ailment that has not yielded, although I have striven hard to overcome it.
Christian Science
teaches that as divine Love reigns in our heart we will desire to help our fellow-man instead of condemning him, that we must be ever on the watch to guard against the sin of self-righteousness, to look to the beam in our own eye rather than to see the mote in our brother's.
Christian Science teaches that true union with God is through virtue, truth, and love, rather than through adherence to any system of philosophical and religious belief, or through any form of mystical contemplation.
I have taken great pains to investigate and talk with persons who have been the objects of some wonderful cures, and to talk with the person who has treated them, so that I might be able to say, in some sense, that I had a personal knowledge of the cases.
Christian Science introduces the teaching of the All-in-all of God; that is, that God is Spirit, and man is His expression or likeness, and follows this with the instruction that its adherents must deport themselves according to such understanding of God and man, in order to work out their salvation.
It is true that Christian Science teaches that the cause and foundation of all sickness is fear, ignorance, and sin; and because of this teaching, Christian Scientists have learned that suffering and sickness are neither God-ordained nor God-sent.
Be it fully understood that Christian Science heals purely and solely by denying physical causes and effects, and depending absolutely upon the power of the divine Mind to work the cure.
Among
the many testimonies to the healing power of Truth which are given in our periodicals, or at the Wednesday meetings, the greater number contain expressions of thankfulness for the illumination of the Scriptures which comes with the study of Science and Health.
A statement of what Christian Science has done for me in the last four years would fill a volume, but I would like to give an experience in an accident which occurred to me.
When I first heard of Christian Science I thought that I could not change my faith in the church under whose influence I had been in my native home in Germany, for something new.
Time and again I have tried to express my thankfulness to God for Christian Science, and also to our dear Leader, who has brought this truth to a suffering race.
In our family four little daughters rely upon Christian Science, and in the years that we have known this blessed truth they have been healed of every illness and pain that has appeared.
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