April 14, 1906
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The Lodge amendment to the Hepburn rate bill will, if adopted, include all pipe lines in the provisions of the Interstate Commerce law, and make these lines, whether owned by the Standard Oil Company or others, common carriers.
Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
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becoming a student of Christian Science, the subject of joining The Mother Church in Boston was brought to the writer's notice, and she well remembers that at first she thought lightly of that privilege, partly owing, perhaps, to the fact that in the church to which she formerly belonged, infant baptism was considered the seal of membership.
I am not a Christian Scientist myself, being, indeed, a member of the Church of England, but this does not bar me from admitting and rejoicing in the good work the Christian Scientists are doing by the exercise of what a critic calls their "healing propensity.
A clergyman declares that "expectancy is a therapeutic agent" employed in Christian Science healings, and that "there is no necessity of going outside the church to find it, for it is practised more or less by all physicians.
For nearly forty years Christian Science has been taught and demonstrated, at first by Mary Baker Eddy alone, and then with a rapidly growing number of her followers, until to-day it is well known that many thousands have accepted this teaching as the logical and demonstrable explanation of Christ's message.
Scholarship has at last entered on its serious mission of curbing the irrelevant emotions of mankind, and of introducing that intellectual domination which must analyze the problems of religion to their ultimate facts and construct general systems of belief which are rational and effective.
Christian Science does not dispossess the patient of the control of his own mind, nor place him under the control of another human will.
Those who know what Christian Science really is, know that in no respect is there any similarity between its alert, active, intelligently Christian teachings and the dreamy mysticism of Hindoo philosophy.
Christian Scientists do not deny that to mortal sense evil in all its phases is as real as any physical phenomena.
Second Church of Christ, Scientist, of this city, having outgrown the seating capacity of its present church building on Linwood Avenue, has leased the auditorium of the Twentieth Century Club on Delaware Avenue, which has recently been remodeled.
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The next admission of candidates to membership in The Mother Church will be June 5, 1906.
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The author of the Christian Science text-book takes no patients, does not consult on disease, nor read letters referring to these subjects.
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one and all of my dear correspondents accept this, my answer, to their fervid question: Owing to the time consumed in travel, etcetera, I cannot be present in propria persona at our annual Communion and the dedication in June next of The Mother Church of Christ, Scientist.
The Christian Science Board of Directors
take pleasure in announcing that the extension of The Mother Church will be dedicated on the date of the Annual Communion, Sunday, June 10, 1906.
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following letter and newspaper clipping emphasize the fact that material philosophy, after vainly trying to posit matter as substantial, now seems ready to abandon the effort and to fall into line with Mrs.
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forgiveness of sin is a doctrine which distinguishes pure monotheism from idolatry or materialistic philosophy.
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The
work upon the extension of The Mother Church is proceeding with such rapidity that a large amount of money is required at this time, and it is necessary for the Treasurer to receive largely increased contributions at once.
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Each branch Church of Christ, Scientist, is requested to send, on or before May I, a report of its total membership.
For more than thirty years I had been doctoring for chronic liver complaint, under the care of seven or eight first-class physicians in the eastern, middle, and western parts of the United States.
I was merely a child when I first heard of Christian Science.
I desire to testify to the benefits I have received during the last two and one half years through the study of Christian Science.
A recent experience through which my mother passed has again revealed to us the beneficent ministrations of Christian Science.
I was thirty-eight years old before I gained any spiritual understanding, and then it came through my healing in Christian Science.
It is over three years since I started in Christian Science and was led into the understanding of divine Truth.
Christian Science came to bless our home in October, 1902.
I was troubled with asthma for over twenty-five years.
When I first heard of Christian Science I was a very selfish, discontented person.
In my quiet room, alone with Science and Health, the tobacco habit of twenty years' standing vanished like a dream: the careless tongue became more guarded: from being a free thinker I became a believer in God, and life seems sweeter.
After suffering for twelve years with chronic nervous indigestion and its accompanying ills, I finally turned to Christian Science for physical aid.
Last summer my little daughter had a severe attack of pleurisy, and after three days' illness help was telegraphed for.
Christian Science healing was brought to my notice about fourteen years ago.
In the winter of 1892 I received my first blessing from Christian Science.
It would be impossible to tell all I have received through Christian Science, or to express my gratitude.
I wish to add my testimony to that of thousands who have been healed both spiritually and physically.
I wish to express a little of the deep gratitude I feel for my slight knowledge of Christian Science.
It is with deep gratitude that I wish to tell of a demonstration which proved to me the allness of God.
The healing power of Truth was clearly demonstrated to us while studying the Lesson-Sermon entitled "Reality.
Three years ago I spent two or three months in Los Angeles.
I had what the doctors called catarrh of the stomach, and their treatment did me no good.
Ninety years from now, immeasurably more than now, the world's practical religion will be the great spiritual and ethical truths which men in great numbers are discovering in the New Testament — that record of the truth revealed to the first Christians.
