Postmaster General Meyer announces that he is considering the advisability of extending the "sea post offices" on at least two more of the transatlantic steamship lines.
with contributions from Harvey S. Chase, Frank S. Streeter, Fred N. Ladd, Mary Baker G. Eddy, Allen Hollis, Henry M. Baker, Calvin A. Frye, Archibald McLellan, Josiah E. Fernald
The
following affidavits were filed in the Superior Court at Concord on May 17 and 18.
with contributions from Alfred Farlow, Ira O. Knapp, William B. Johnson, Stephen A. Chase, Joseph Armstrong, William A. Morse, Calvin A. Frye, Lewis C. Strang, Irving C. Tomlinson, Hermann S. Hering, Fred C. Demond
We
are printing in this issue of the Sentinel the full text of the affidavits filed in the Court in Concord on Friday and Saturday of last week, and as these documents occupy considerable space we have been compelled to increase our number of pages to twenty-eight for this issue.
As time rolls on, the expanding thought of mankind goes back with greater eagerness than ever to that momentous time when God was revealed to men through the one who knew Him so well that he could speak with authority respecting His nature, His law, and His kingdom.
The
professed disciple of Christ Jesus who insists that war is a necessary evil, evidences that he has not only forgotten the example and injunction of the Master respecting a Christian's attitude toward his enemies, but that he has failed to apprehend the vital and eternal truth that evil is not overcome by resisting personality, by taking life, but solely by the realization and demonstration of good.
with contributions from T. L. Sigmon, Ira O. Knapp, Elizabeth Earl Jones, Ernest C. Moses, Meta Haworth-Booth, Lena Beers Kimberley, E. L. Glick, Maud Madison
It
is usually difficult for beginners in Christian Science properly to appreciate the great courage and wisdom of our Leader in departing from established customs of public worship and giving to the Christian Science Church the Lesson-Sermons by which it has so greatly profited, and some may not value the Sermons themselves at their true worth for daily study and for Sunday service.
In
the present state of human advancement, when scarcely a week passes without a new "wonderful" discovery being announced, it is the ambition of the average man to know everything.
"There are on an average four thousand doctors graduated every year by the medical colleges of the country, and about three fourths of these are utterly incompetent and should never be permitted to practise medicine.
Christian Scientists believe in right thinking, in right acting, and in so ordering their lives that they will make the world brighter and better than they found it, and render it more of a paradise for having lived in it.
The Legislature has taken the liberal and sensible course in rejecting the proposition to forbid the practice of healing by other than regular physicians.
I desire to make a just acknowledgment of what Christian Science has done for me, and because others have expressed their gratitude that does not excuse me from showing some sign that I have not lost sight of what I have received through the work and self-sacrifice of our Leader, Mrs.
The realization that even the physical structure which we call the body depends upon our understanding of the spiritual, came to me in a practical way during the building of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, of Minneapolis, Minn.
I was appointed sanitary officer in June, 1901, and the next fall, when our city had quite an epidemic of a so-called contagious disease, I was asked if I would enter a house supposed to be infected, my superiors knowing that I was a Christian Scientist.
I cannot find words fitly to express the gratitude I feel for the many benefits I have received through Christian Science, in fact I am just beginning to learn the meaning of the word gratitude; neither can I enumerate the daily blessings which this wonderful truth is unfolding to me.
Very few of us will have the chance of heroic self-devotion; but every day brings the petty, wearing sacrifice which weighs full weight in God's scales.
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with contributions from Harvey S. Chase, Frank S. Streeter, Fred N. Ladd, Mary Baker G. Eddy, Allen Hollis, Henry M. Baker, Calvin A. Frye, Archibald McLellan, Josiah E. Fernald
with contributions from Alfred Farlow, Ira O. Knapp, William B. Johnson, Stephen A. Chase, Joseph Armstrong, William A. Morse, Calvin A. Frye, Lewis C. Strang, Irving C. Tomlinson, Hermann S. Hering, Fred C. Demond
with contributions from T. L. Sigmon, Ira O. Knapp, Elizabeth Earl Jones, Ernest C. Moses, Meta Haworth-Booth, Lena Beers Kimberley, E. L. Glick, Maud Madison