Charges made by inventors, that the railway safety appliance companies have been purchasing all of the important inventions and suppressing many of them, are to be investigated.
Christendom
has universally agreed that the Scriptural record of the life and work of Christ Jesus sets forth the words and deeds of one who was without question the Saviour of mankind.
We
sometimes hear of Christian Scientists being asked to take poison, or to walk off the roof of a high building, in order to convince a non-believer that Christian Science can do what is claimed for it.
Among the pictures at the State House about to be shipped to the Jamestown Exposition in connection with the New Hampshire exhibit, are several frames each containing a number of photographs of public buildings, churches, and other institutions, scenery, etc.
If materia medica is not entitled to public censure in the press for failing to check or destroy disease in a given case in its incipiency, there seems to be no good reason why a Christian Science practitioner should have especial notice in the press for not saving the man in the last stages of his trouble, after he had been treated by seven physicians, the last of whom gave up the case.
Sir
,—In your issue of recent date you reported a lecture delivered by Canon Parker, in which he refers at some length to Christian Science, and upon which I therefore beg leave to comment.
In a recent issue of the Advocate you made editorial mention of a minister's attack on Christian Science while addressing the Gospel Missionary Society of New Britain.
While we do not fully endorse all that Christian Science teaches, let it be said that the doctrine has accomplished and will continue to accomplish an immense amount of good in the world, and should command our respect and admiration for the uplifting influence it exerts.
The people of this city have had ample chance to learn something of what Christian Science is; something of what its professors believe and something that comes from their belief.
Our Leader's definition of "children," as given in the glossary of our text-book, is very remarkable and lifts thought far above the ordinary human concept.
The photographs of branch churches which arrived within the time specified in the recent request of The Christian Science Publishing Society, made through the Sentinel, will be displayed in connection with the "International Book and Paper Exposition" in Paris, from July to November of this year.
with contributions from F. A. Fennell, Ellen K. Doten, Anna M. Bronson, Wallace N. Vreeland, George D. Fox, Minnie D. Symonds, Ella Hofma, George Hamlin
After a period of eight years the congregation of First Church of Christ, Scientist, of this city, saw on June 16 the consummation of their most earnest desires—the dedication of their church, free from all debt or encumbrance.
A recent Lesson-Sermon has brought back to me the thoughts which came when as a little boy I learned in Sunday School of the miracles performed by Jesus, and was told that God had sent him to earth and given him this power that the people might believe in God.
"Your boy's eyes have been put out by a powder explosion!" was the exclamation of the crowd that had gathered about the house to which I had been called by telephone.
Sects,
ye have your day and die,Eddies in the stream of truth,—The great current, sweeping by,Leaves you swirled in shapes uncouth,Born to writhe, and glint, and woo—Broken mirrors of the Blue.
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with contributions from F. A. Fennell, Ellen K. Doten, Anna M. Bronson, Wallace N. Vreeland, George D. Fox, Minnie D. Symonds, Ella Hofma, George Hamlin