AT The Hague Conference just held forty-six powers, occupying the territory of the entire globe, came together with more or less of their historic prejudices, ill-feeling, and suspicions, their various local interests, their racial differences, and their diversified constitutions and legislative methods, and for four months continued in the serious and thorough discussion of problems which concern them in common.
In
this month of November, when all right-minded American people are thinking of their reasons for thankfulness, we, as Christian Scientists, are daily and hourly striving to overcome the inherently greedy and dishonest tendencies of the so-called mortal mind by recalling and cherishing in thought our great indebtedness to Christian Science for the innumerable blessings it brings to us.
ONE
of the most frequent criticisms of the Christian Science method of healing is that Scientists make a charge for their work, while Jesus and his disciples did not.
In
that intense and spiritual calmI seemed to stand upon a little hill;The world's unrest of sorrow and alarmSank into silent valleys and was still;The dissonance and claim of mortal willMerged into concord; in that one supremeAll-glorious moment, every sense of illWas swept away on some supernal stream.
There are a certain number of opponents of christian Science who seem to labor under the impression that the constant reiteration of strings of offensive adjectives constitutes criticism.
In recent issues of your valued paper a Boston correspondent discusses the latest departure from orthodox Christianity instituted in a church in this city.
In the light of twentieth-century civilization, based on an unbroken and unsuccessful history of over four thousand years of medicine, the medical fraternity to-day realize more than ever before their inability to heal diseases by the use of drugs.
At
the present time, when so much is being said respecting our great indebtedness for the truth made known to us as Christian Science, some profound lessons may be learned by tracing in the Gospels the record of what was done—not said—by those who partook of the blessings of truth through Jesus' ministry.
with contributions from Fannie J. Holcomb, Isaac Clegg, Kate Ashworth, Martha Sutton-Thompson, Anna B. Wells, Annie E. Hinman, Hattie Jones, Lizzie Lever, Mary Brookins, Emma E. Adams, Adelaid Belt Smith, Jennie K. Coutant, Alice Roberts Knox, Gertrude Tilden Thompson, Elroy Sherman Thompson, Stella Hadden Alexander
Those who have made application for membership in The Mother Church previous to November, 1907, and have not received notice of election, may send enquiries to the Clerk, William B.
Recently I suddenly realized that I had a well developed case of disease, brought on apparently by most unusual physical and mental strain covering a period of two weeks, during which time I was constantly on the move, on foot and in street cars from early morning until late in the day, at the same time being compelled to work until near midnight each night on most perplexing business matters.
For many years before I first heard of Christian Science, in fact so long as I can remember, I had been a slave to the supposed laws of health and of matter.
As I was starting out for lunch one day I crushed my finger between the two heavy swinging doors at the en trance to the building where our offices are located.
With the desire to give freely of that which I have received freely, I wish to state that I became interested in Christian Science about three years ago.
This testimony is but a very small statement of the good I have experienced in Christian Science, and the gratitude I feel for the truth as made known to me through the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
I desire to express my gratitude for the many blessings I have received through Christian Science, which was brought to me by a very dear friend while I lay suffering from a severe attack of abdominal trouble, the second inside of three months.
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with contributions from Fannie J. Holcomb, Isaac Clegg, Kate Ashworth, Martha Sutton-Thompson, Anna B. Wells, Annie E. Hinman, Hattie Jones, Lizzie Lever, Mary Brookins, Emma E. Adams, Adelaid Belt Smith, Jennie K. Coutant, Alice Roberts Knox, Gertrude Tilden Thompson, Elroy Sherman Thompson, Stella Hadden Alexander