In a letter to the Consumers League, at a recent meeting in New York, President Roosevelt, in commenting on the question of child labor, says: "You are doing a work that should appeal peculiarly to every good citizen, for those you befriend are greatly in need of friends and are not powerful enough to stand up for themselves.
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professing Christians, praying daily that they may be of use in the world and God will show them how to work in His vineyard, how to be followers of the Master, confess that they do not know how to follow.
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value of the work performed by the Committees on Publication cannot be overestimated, and our Leader's foresight and wisdom in organizing this department of our denominational activities is amply justified by the good effects brought about in practice.
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reading of a newspaper account of the most recent legislative attempt to place the healing of disease through Christian Science in the category of offenses against the law, has suggested an interesting speculation.
Christian Science is Christian, scientific, and practical, for the following reasons: It is Christian, because it is in harmony with the teachings of Christ Jesus, spiritually understood, and proves that they are true.
The man most needed by the business world to-day is the one who brings with him a well-poised mental equipment, moral courage, and the ability quickly to discern and choose the right from the wrong; and he who is alert is learning more and more that right thinking makes right living and right living means success; that man is not bound by the iron shackles of heredity or environment, but that he is free to choose the right, and that if he will use the Divine power offered him he can live it.
Last spring the Christian Scientists in Ohio sought an amendment to this medical law, and the chief objection made by physicians was that Christian Scientists were unable to diagnose disease.
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is very interesting to inquire into the reasons for the rapid and steady progress made by some pupils in their school days, as compared with that of others, and this inquiry may be pursued in the wider school of human experience.
Thirty-three years ago, while teaching vocal music, I was supposed to have overworked the vocal organs, and by taking cold I contracted a throat trouble, culminating in an abnormal growth which at one time so obstructed the throat that I was unable to swallow food.
In March, 1900, when all medical help had failed and the last doctor had left me, having done all he could to relieve my suffering, I came to Christian Science for help.
After several years of suffering with throat and lung trouble, which was pronounced serious by physicians, and after using all the material remedies offered to me by them and by friends, I was told that it was necessary to have a change of climate.
At one time I was greatly prejudiced against Christian Science; in fact, I was so stubborn that I would not give it a thorough investigation, although I had ample opportunity to do so; but when sickness and disease had seemingly destroyed my once rugged constitution, and when I had been confined to the bed for over three months, racked with such pain and suffering that many times I longed to die, then I was ready to accept Christian Science.
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Thy pure sight, O wondrous eyes of God,Naught but the perfect thought is ever seen;For every serpent-fear, behold, a rod!On which the erring human sense may lean.
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