A long step toward the establishment of a broad boulevard extending from Boston to the White Mountains will be taken during the present year, in the construction of the so-called "Merrimack Valley trunk line," a highway authorized by the last session of the New Hampshire Legislature.
A man
of my acquaintance, who when a boy used to make simple fireworks to add variety to the ordinary pin-wheels and Roman candles of those days, at first had little idea that he was studying chemistry.
What
seems a stumbling-block to many when brought face to face with Christian Science is the fact that its adherents accept remuneration for their services.
Our
sobs and our laughter may follow each otherAs swift as our heart-throbs, many's the time;Our smiles and our tears may neighbor each otherBehind our quick eyelids, many's the time;Hide-and-seek may be played by the clouds and the sunlightAcross the blue spaces forever above us;Yet we know, after all, there is always the sunlight,And we know God is Love and is ever above us.
The rumor to the effect that there is strife in the Christian Science movement concerning leadership, which has periodically appeared in the public press, and which has recently been revived, has not become true with age, but is quite as much a myth now as it was when first put into circulation.
Paul declared, after his wonderful conversion to Christianity, when referring to his previous life, "I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
We
are asked by a correspondent to state the attitude of Christian Scientists toward the miracles of the Old and New Testaments, specifically whether they believe that Jesus walked the water or that Daniel was cast into the lions' den without harm to him; and as these questions appear to be asked in good faith, we see no reason why they should not be answered in the same spirit in which they are propounded.
After
all that may be said in praise of other blossoms, to the grown-up country lad there are none quite so satisfying and so dear as the lilac, and for the reason that in addition to its gifts of fragrance and beauty it brings a picture of mother and the old home which means far more to him than he has ever tried to express; above all others, perhaps, it is the flower that for him awakens
with contributions from Eliza Baker Manson, J. L. van der Merwe, John L. Kuhlmann, C. C. Bredell, C. Bredell, C. L. Ockenden, A. Langebrink, M. Talbot-bowe, J. H. Rainier, George Wilber Reed, Emma J. Leplow, Anne Le Baron Drumm, Lucinda Slater, Agnes Aitchison, Board of Directors, Mary J. Lewis, Alice Horton
Negotiations have been completed by the Christian Scientists of this city for the purchase of the two lots at the northeast corner of Fifth Street and Lincoln Avenue.
After attending a most impressive service in a Christian Science church this beautiful Thanksgiving day, an earnest desire to be saved from the sin of ingratitude impels me to write my testimony.
It is now nearly eight years since I became interested in Christian Science, at which time I was healed of an organic trouble that had baffled the skill of twelve of the best doctors I could hear of in my own city, in Albany, and in New York city, covering a period of more than six years.
For seven or eight years I have been receiving benefits from Christian Science, and feel that I should no longer withhold my testimony from among those of the rapidly increasing multitude who with one accord are sending up a song of thanksgiving to God, for His revelation of Truth to this age through our beloved Leader.
It is with a feeling of inestimable gratitude to our dear Leader that I am happy to acknowledge my healing of asthmatic trouble through Christian Science.
It is now over three years since I first became interested in Christian Science, and in all that time I have depended entirely on it for the overcoming of physical discord.
It will soon be one year since I have had the happiness to know Christian Science, and I desire to express my gratitude for all the good it had brought me.
I have been studying Christian Science only a short time, but by diligence and the help of a practitioner for a period of two months, diseases of eighteen years' standing have been completely cured.
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with contributions from Eliza Baker Manson, J. L. van der Merwe, John L. Kuhlmann, C. C. Bredell, C. Bredell, C. L. Ockenden, A. Langebrink, M. Talbot-bowe, J. H. Rainier, George Wilber Reed, Emma J. Leplow, Anne Le Baron Drumm, Lucinda Slater, Agnes Aitchison, Board of Directors, Mary J. Lewis, Alice Horton