Congress in its recent session took the position that as a navigable river and boundary Niagara comes under the control of the Nation, and thus even the privileges already granted by New York are of no effect.
Apart
from the many in this country who have found in Christian Science, health, happiness, and peace, its progress has reached the stage when not only have most people heard something of its healing work, but many have come to recognize that they are confronted with phenomena not easily to be explained away, whatever the supposed power behind may be.
When
two people who know no common language try to express their ideas to each other, their means of conveying thought are limited to signs, gestures, and facial expressions, and only in modest degree can they grasp each other's meanings.
To the Christian Scientist it is quite clear that God, being infinite, omnipotent, and omniscient, the author, the creator of all that is, could not create or permit that which is absolutely unlike himself.
We
are advised by our brethren in Louisiana that the recent attempt of the physicians in that State to secure legislation adverse to the practice of Christian Science has been defeated, the proposed bill having been withdrawn by its author in order to give it, as he said, "a decent burial.
It
is agreed by many religious writers that those who are striving for more spirituality find greater help in the study of Gospels than in any other part of the Bible.
It
has been claimed that Christian Science practitioners are unfitted to heal the sick in view of their asserted inability to diagnose disease, not having made a study of symptomatology, and to this charge practitioners have made the best possible answer by continuing to do the thing of which they are said to be incapable.
with contributions from A. Cora Jones, Valeria J. Campbell, Annie E. Hinds, Kate Morey, Mary W. Weldon
[The reading of the following good letter has been a great pleasure, and we heartily commend both the letter and the prompt and unquestioning obedience of the writer of it.
My mother was healed by Christian Science when I was three years old and I can say with thankfulness that I have never been ill in bed a whole day in my life.
In January, 1892, when living in Rochester, Vermont, I was taken with chills and fever, resulting in grip with many complications, one of which was pneumonia.
I did not become interested in Christian Science through any physical healing, but about four years ago I heard of the Wednesday evening meetings, and was induced to attend one of them.
It is quite true that we have become, as a people, too reckless in the pursuit of wealth, that the nation "needs a new baptism of the old virtue of honesty.
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