The
following incident well illustrates the fact that many people hesitate to read Christian Science literature or to discuss Christian Science with those familiar with its scope and aim because they are afraid their religious opinions may become unsettled.
Discouragement
springs from a sense of limitation and fear, a belief that good is not universal and supreme—that it is divided and limited, some here and some there, so to speak, but not enough to go around, and the fear arises that because of the supposed absence of good there is another power called evil, that can take something from us.
[That the organ recital which was given in The Mother Church was considered one of the features of Boston's "Old Home Week," is apparent from the following.
It is a well-known fact that persons who are unwilling to show sufficient gratitude and appreciation to make compensation for the good they receive, are unworthy to obtain it, and therefore the effort to give it to them would be wasted.
The Publishing Society occasionally receives foreign money orders which have neither letter, order for literature, nor any other means of identification.
Christian Science
teaches clearly that all human interests and conditions are to be embraced in that right consciousness, that active perception of divinely lawful rights and relations, which in its nature and effects is always vicarious.
In
the Bible the word strength and its derivatives are used between three and four hundred times, and in almost every instance the text points to God as the source thereof.
The Jewish New year will be observed with services in First Church of Christ, Scientist, King's Highway and Westminster Place, by the Temple Israel congregation tomorrow evening [Sept.
After I had suffered for about thirty years from nervousness and digestive troubles, I learned something of theosophy and read its works with a real hunger, hoping I had found at last what I was seeking for, but neither that nor the Oriental teaching could satisfy me permanently; I still had to resort to baths and sanitariums.
Three years ago I turned to Christian Science, after all material means had failed to relieve me of an affliction from which I had suffered since birth.
I have been so much helped by reading the Sentinel and Journal, that I feel it but right to express my gratitude by telling their readers of the harmonious way a baby came to us recently.
Prompted by sincere gratitude, I wish to express my heartfelt thanks for the benefits I have received through Christian Science, and of these the spiritual uplifting far excels the physical help.
It is with pleasure and gratitude that I testify to my healing by Christian Science, at the age of eighty-five, of a trouble of fifty-five years' standing.
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