The trustees of the Carnegie foundation, who are charged with administering $10,000,-000, the gift of Andrew Carnegie to provide pensions for professors and teachers of institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada, met recently and adopted a scale of pensions.
THE
following sentence from a well-known writer, a deeply thinking and widely cultured man, expresses as well as is usually done a comprehension of the change which must follow the understanding and application of the teachings of Christian Science; "To accept the doctrine that moral evil and physical pain and suffering are not realities, would require me not merely to change my opinions, but to recast, so to speak, my character.
ARE
we thinking our thoughts in the realization of actual and vital at-one-ment with God, good; or are we contenting ourselves with mere intellectual or emotional musings about God?
WHEN
we begin to learn the way in Christian Science a change takes place in the manner in which we express ourselves, and with study and growth our vocabulary undergoes a radical change.
One is not obliged to be a Christian Scientist to see the narrowness and injustice of the action of the legislators who voted to prohibit Christian Science practitioners from charging for their services.
Christian Science cures by lifting the thought from the contemplation of the material concepts of sin, sickness, and death to the knowledge of the pure, sinless, deathless reality of God and His universe, including man.
Some
time ago we called attention to the bad practice which has grown up among some Christian Scientists of circulating certain papers and alleged copies of letters purporting to be helpful expositions of Christian Science, but which, as a rule, are misleading and harmful misinterpretations of its teachings; and as this practice has not entirely ceased, we again refer to it in the hope that those who are still circulating this spurious matter may be induced to cease from doing so.
THE
scientific tendencies of the present time have led men to look for human unfoldment by orderly and sometimes slow processes; and this in contradistinction to the belief that instantaneous changes in human conditions were possible.
THE mistake of the disciples as they made their way to the sepulchre to find their Lord, is the mistake of all who are looking to materiality for the solution of life's problem.
The Christian Science Publishing Society has arranged to issue pictures of the extension of The Mother Church in connection with the original building, as it will appear when completed.
with contributions from EMILY A. GRISWOLD, D. C. PENDERY, EDITH S. GRANT, EVA A. FAIRLEE, MAIE VAN BUREN SHOUSE, ELLA V. CANNIFF, CHARLES E. GREEN, ROBERT L. ZILLER
While seated at my writing table one day, there came upon me, without the least warning, what our medical friends would term a severe cerebral shock—caused, or said to be caused, by the rupture of a blood-vessel in the brain— which affected one side of my face and neck.
We were spending a few weeks in the country and it seemed as if our pleasure would be marred in various ways, but each time the discord was quickly overcome by the truth.
I was more or less of an invalid from childhood, suffering from very many serious troubles, and after I married I was confined to my bed for nearly two years.
I rejoice to tell of the help that has come to me through Christian Science, at a time when health, happiness, and peace seemed to have gone out of my life.
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with contributions from EMILY A. GRISWOLD, D. C. PENDERY, EDITH S. GRANT, EVA A. FAIRLEE, MAIE VAN BUREN SHOUSE, ELLA V. CANNIFF, CHARLES E. GREEN, ROBERT L. ZILLER