June 30, 1906
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Attorney-General Moody, in a statement which had the sanction of the President and members of the Cabinet, says that criminal proceedings will be commenced immediately against the Standard Oil officials.
Peace
is the reward which crowns the effort of those who seek to be spiritually minded, but this peace has no stagnation in it, for it is the evidence of the perfect harmony of Life and its immortal activities.
Talking of symptoms, I am greatly interested in the recent case against the Christian Scientists.
Those who have attended the Torrey-Alexander meetings here in Philadelphia in response to the urgent invitations sent broadcast through the public press, at least have a right to expect that those who address these meetings should know whereof they speak.
We are not disposed to enter into any controversy with the Christian Scientists, and while we cannot agree with them on many points, we are not inclined to indulge in harsh criticisms of people whose lives are as beautiful as are the lives of those who live up to the teachings of Christian Science.
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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.
We
think that all our visitors during the past three weeks will gladly concur in the acknowledgment made by one of them to a reporter for the Boston Transcript, for there can be no question about the generous welcome extended to our friends by the people of Boston.
The
essential of every manifestation of true loyalty is adherence to Principle, and every lesser sense of it invariably leads to selfishness and illiberality.
It
is not strange that the coming together of such large numbers of Christian Scientists at their annual Communion and the dedication of the Extension of The Mother Church of Christ, Scientist, should have aroused much interest and called forth much comment.
I was healed by Christian Science seven years ago.
I have much pleasure in giving my experience of Christian Science, of which I have known for three years.
For a number of years I had been troubled with sore throat, enlarged tonsils, and frequent attacks of laryngitis.
I was troubled for over two years with my throat, and had a constant cough and hoarseness.
About twelve years ago, when going downstairs, I slipped down two steps at once, which threw me heavily on one heel, dislocating several bones in my foot.
When I first heard of Christian Science, I had been an invalid for several years, suffering from nervous prostration and organic difficulties which all available material means had failed to relieve.
My attention was first called to Christian Science about five years ago.
During the early months of 1904 I had frequent attacks of violent pain, which lasted some hours, leaving me prostrate for days after.
Nearly eight years ago, after the reading of a Christian Science Journal, I was enabled to lay aside glasses which I had worn for over four years.
When ten or twelve years of age, I was taken with a severe attack of whooping-cough, which afterward led to lung trouble.
Five years ago my view of life was very distorted, yet I longed to be healthy and happy, and I prayed that I might be changed.
In February, 1885, I was instantly healed, through Christian Science, of what a physician, under whose treatment I had been for six months, called incurable uterine cancer.
At the age of sixteen years I had what was at that time called phthisic.
Before I knew anything of Christian Science Mind-healing I used to be afraid of God, but now I love Him.
In March, 1905, I was suddenly seized with illness, and I rapidly grew very sick.
God is back of all truth as well as in all truth, and back of all life from which thought originates.
