With the breaking up on March 4 of the tribal organization of the Five Civilized Tribes, the Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, and Seminoles, what is in reality the last chapter of the Indian's distinctive history on this continent began.
The lumber is on the ground for a new religious edifice in Arcata and in a few weeks the members of the Christian Science church of this section will worship under their own roof.
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has often been alleged by persons opposed to Christian Science, that if this system possesses any healing efficacy at all, it extends only to nervous and imaginary diseases, and is not to be relied upon in serious cases or in those believed to require surgery; but however plausible this statement may seem on its face, it is not borne out by the facts of actual experience.
With a heart full of gratitude to God, and to our dear Leader, I lovingly give the following testimony of an experience which has proved to us more than ever before the presence of God at all times.
For months before I first became interested in Christian Science I would not permit the subject to be mentioned to me, but one day while out walking I noticed, not very far from my home, a Christian Science church.
The "little book," "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," has been such a treasure to me during the last few years that I willingly send a testimony of gratitude to the author.
Two years ago I had my first Christian Science treatment and was healed in five weeks of a disease of the throat called chronic laryngitis, which I had had for four years.
The help I have received from the reading of testimonies in the Sentinel and Journal, prompts me to send an acknowledgment of the benefits I have received through Christian Science.
Study whatsoever incident you will in the career of Jesus and you will find that the lasting power of it lies not so much in what Jesus himself was doing for others, as in the glory of the ideal he was setting forth to inspire self-sacrificing, successful action on the part of innumerable others.
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