The
little "honest confession of the soul," "Our Debt to Christian Science," which I took the liberty to make some time ago in the Westminster, a Presbyterian weekly published in Philadelphia, it is needless to say has called forth all kinds of criticism and comment.
The
illusive nature of sense testimony is illustrated in the following incidents: One morning a man was driving a cow into the stable, in which there happened to be at the time considerable dust.
A few
days since a trifling incident brought to my consciousness a childhood thought which the years had not wholly obliterated, and from which I am learning valuable lessons.
The Haverhill Gazette points out the absurdity of the proposed attempt to legislate against the practice of Christian Science healing; absurd because such matters are not regulated by force, but by reason.
Christian Scientists understand that sin and disease exist only in the false material sense of things; they seem real, but they are not facts, because God never made them; if they were real they could never be destroyed, for a real thing is an eternal thing and is incapable of destruction.
In view of the fact that so many people honestly fail to understand just why Christian Scientists have more faith in Christian Science than in medical treatment, I feel sure that the readers of your valuable paper will be interested in a brief statement of their position.
with contributions from Ira O. Knapp, William B. Johnson, Joseph Armstrong, Stephen A. Chase, Archibald McLellan, Helen L. Younger, W. D. McCrackan, The Board of Directors, R. M. Strother, Caroline D. Noyes, George Shaw Cook, Josephine Kent, George Sprung, Enda H. Hosmer
John O. Zuch
with contributions from Helen S. Pennell
As I think over the wonderful success of Christian Science, of its practical benefit to all mankind, and of the inestimable value and help it has been to me, a great sense of gratitude and love compels me to express my thanks to Mrs.
For perhaps fifteen years in my early life I was employed by the Esterly Reaper Works, and during the greater part of this time I was obliged to run a machine which compelled me to stand on one foot while I worked with the other.
During the last three years my wife and I have had the pleasure of visiting The Mother Church in Boston and five Christian Science churches in Chicago.
I have always looked to what I thought was God, and prayed to Him, but never until I knew that sin had to be overcome before it could be forgiven, did I find Him; and in the degree that I follow Christ do I realize what God is, and that all sin and disease can be healed.
I first heard of Christian Science in 1889, at which time several members of my family were on the sick list, and we were large contributors to doctors and drug stores.
I have long wanted to tell the world of my healing through Christian Science, something over seven years ago, I was healed of asthmatic trouble, from which I had suffered for ten years.
My heart overflows with grateful love to God for His tender care in making known to us in this age the evangel of peace known to all the world as Christian Science.
Like
as the early autumn breezeGoes chanting through the hilltop treesIts joy and happiness,Let me my voice, like David, raiseIn psalms of thanks and grateful praise,And Thy great goodness bless.
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with contributions from Ira O. Knapp, William B. Johnson, Joseph Armstrong, Stephen A. Chase, Archibald McLellan, Helen L. Younger, W. D. McCrackan, The Board of Directors, R. M. Strother, Caroline D. Noyes, George Shaw Cook, Josephine Kent, George Sprung, Enda H. Hosmer