February 9, 1907
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The Interstate Commerce Commission, which has just transmitted to Congress its first report on its investigation on discriminations and monopolies, concludes with these recommendations for legislative action:
Two
human tendencies which beset the effort of the average individual in any line of study or endeavor, may be defined as follows: One is the common inclination to look so far into the future for achievement that the consequent visionary restlessness leads to neglect of the necessary work for to-day; and the other, a kindred temptation to grant evil the power sufficient to withhold, until some future season, the good which has really been earned for to-day.
SEVERAL
years ago the writer and a friend started from a small town in western Colorado and traveled over seven hundred miles on horseback to the Yellowstone National Park We crossed alkali deserts; toiled up mountain-sides; followed narrow trails along the shelving sides of canyons, and were tangled up in fallen timber, where our progress was very slow.
THY
guiding Voice, O Truth, in thought I hear,Rebuking error, stilling grief and fear!My heart its healing benediction shrines;And lo, like sun-surf purpling hillside vines,A rush of radiance ripens power and cheer—Thy guiding Voice.
How much basic truth there is in Christian Science, the Times is not prepared either to assert or deny.
The Committee on Publication of the Christian Science churches in London writes: "At this season of the year many engage in festivities, nominally to commemorate the birth of Jesus, the Christ, but in reality with little idea of the wonderful birth and career of the most spiritual thought that ever appeared to mankind.
Christian Scientists do not assert that no results have been obtained in the past through prayer, as it is known that during the first few centuries of the Christian Church healing was recognized as a regular part of the Church work, and there has probably been no time since during which numbers of faithful adherents of Christianity have not.
I am not aware that any of the articles of the church to which the reverend critic belongs teaches that the power of Jesus was hypnotic, nor that such an explanation of the wonderful works of the Master would be accepted by any Protestant church in Ohio, but I do know that the reverend gentleman errs most completely when he announces soberly, in addressing a class of religious seekers after truth, that "this is the way Christian Scientists perform their cures.
I see by your good paper of the 4th, that the Emmanuel Episcopal Church of Boston is to teach a class in "faith healing," and that the pastor has stated in this connection that Christian Scientists work their cures through hypnotism, and even Christ Jesus is charged with being nothing more than a very successful hypnotist.
A congregation, consisting of about one hundred Manchester adherents of Christian Science, assembled at the annual thanksgiving service at the Victoria Park Church last night [Dec.
The man who stood and thanked a kindly Providence for the raging of his enemies was a good deal of a philosopher.
The people at large are just practical enough to want what is best.
It is difficult to make out what good purpose is served by the alleged "exposes" of Mrs.
All sins are mistaken ways; hence plain mistakes.
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The author of the Christian Science text-book does not consult nor read letters on disease.
AMONG
those who frankly recognize the dignity and value of the Christian Science movement, and the sanity and integrity of its representatives, one often meets with a reserve criticism of its teachings, to the effect that while strong and convincing in its affirmations it is weak in its denials,—that the assertion of the unreality of material phenomena, sin, sickness and death, and of the unreliability of the testimony of the physical senses, is the one vulnerable feaure of its teaching.
FOR
many years there has been a wide difference of opinion in the medical profession, as to the value to mankind of experiments on the lower animals, and many protests against these experiments have been made by thoughtful people on humanitarian grounds.
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THE
current Quarterly, January, February, March, and the next Quarterly, April, May, June, were prepared from the 379th edition of SCIENCE AND HEALTH.
The picture of The Mother Church which The Christian Science Publishing Society now has for sale is a half-tone reproduction, 12 x 15 inches in size, of a view giving the St.
In the spring of 1885, while under the care of a noted physician, I received word that a former patient of this same physician had been completely restored to health through Christian Science treatment.
Through Christian Science I have been healed of stomach and liver complaints, the latter in an aggravated form.
Almost seven years ago, when material remedies had failed to cure me of an internal disease of long standing,—failed even to give relief,—I was pronounced incurable, and materia medica gave me up to die.
My experience in this new-old truth has been that it is based on a self-proving Principle, ever-operative and available, and is not dependent upon human belief.
A little over five years ago Christian Science was first brought to my notice.
With a heart full of gratitude to God, and to Mrs.
In 1899, while visiting a relative in Buffalo, N.
For fifteen years I was considered an invalid.
About fifteen years ago I was taken down with serious rheumatic trouble, and doctored with a number of the prominent physicians of this city, used material remedies, etc.
For the encouragement of another mother I will give facts, as we fully realized them at the birth of our last child.
About twelve years ago I was given up to die, the doctors saying it was impossible for me to live.
Those of us who have been released from the prisonhouse of suffering should consider it not only a duty, but an inestimable privilege to tell others of our deliverance.
I wish to express some of the gratitude I feel to Christian Science for the wonderful benefits that have come to me through its teachings.
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AN EDITION OF "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES" PRINTED FROM NEW PLATES HAS JUST BEEN ISSUED.
