August 10, 1907
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An increase in the salaries of fifteen thousand female teachers in the public schools of Greater New York has been recommended to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment by the Board of Education.
Perhaps
no story in American literature so beautifully and clearly reveals the effects of pure and noble thoughts as Nathaniel Hawthorne's tale of the White Hills, entitled "The Great Stone Face.
If
Christian Science is untrue, as its opponents aver, in favor of what faith or doctrine would they have its followers abandon it?
Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
The
great king and wise man who is supposed to have imbibed more of material knowledge than all his predecessors, near the close of his earthly career summed up his conclusions with the words: "Vanity of vanities,.
With
face close-pressed 'gainst this o'ershadowing wallOf dense materiality, which seemsImpenetrable, immeasurably tall,Opaque; defiant of our sorry plight,Which thus permits no glance to left or right.
Editor Herald:—Having once held the same opinions as your correspondent "Fairplay," regarding Christian Scientists and their asserted neglect of the children's health, I feel it my duty to enlighten him as to why those opinions changed.
In your issue of May 19 you comment at length upon Christian Science, and in the course of your remarks I note that you refer to the science of spiritual healing, which Mrs.
Christian Scientists are not satisfied with saying that because our fathers had no exact or demonstrable knowledge of God, therefore we should be satisfied without such knowledge.
The healing which results from Christian Science is entirely different in Principle and effect from that of faith cure, mental science, hypnotism, and other methods which the uninformed think are akin to Christian Science.
Our critic affirms that "functional, hysterical, or nervous disorders" are the only "diseases which Scientists can relieve.
The fact that we see to-day, as the critic himself affirms, "many intelligent men and women" seeking Christian Science, is possibly no more "surprising" than it is significant, and is in itself a strong argument in support of our contention that the Rev.
In the statements made as to the cause of attack upon Christian Science, one can readily see the animus of the proposed opposition.
To rightly understand Christian Science one must take all of its teachings and not detached sentences here and there.
In all the centuries that have intervened, it is doubtful if one single person has been prevented from believing on Jesus because of his refusal to cast himself down from the temple.
Under the auspices of the Boston "Old Home Week" Committee, on Wednesday afternoon, July 31, at four o'clock, an organ recital, to which the public were invited, was given in the vast auditorium of The Mother Church, by Mr.
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In response to many requests for a hymnal suitable for carrying in the pocket, a new edition of the Christian Science Hymnal has been issued.
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The author of the Christian Science text-book does not consult nor read letters on disease.
We
have before us a copy of Zion's Herald containing a symposium contributed by "representative ministers in our midst," in response to the editor's inquiry, "Is there anything in Christian Science, so called, that Christian ministers should recognize and utilize?
It
is not always seen that the great changes which are taking place in the material world but indicate the changes which have come about in the thought world,—that just as hitherto unknown elements are being revealed by chemistry, so we are beginning in Christian Science to recognize mental and spiritual qualities which were formerly unknown, or at least held to be of but slight importance.
She
was just a little girl, lying on a cot by one of the windows of a great hospital, and over the wan cheeks and big brown eyes there flitted the lights and shadows of joy and sadness, patience and pain, laughter and longing,—the signs of ever-buoyant hope as well as of long-time trial.
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A large audience turned out last night [June 27] to listen to the lecture by Miss Mary Brookins of Minneapolis, Minn.
With hearts overflowing with gratitude to God, and to our Leader, Mrs.
I am desirous to tell other sufferers something about the healing effected by simply reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
For fifteen years I suffered from stomach trouble.
It is with a heart filled with love and gratitude that I write of what has been a help to me.
I became interested in Christian Science after being sick for about two years, and am thankful to be able to say that Christian Science has done for me what the best of medical treatment failed to do.
Several years previous to October, 1903, I developed a peculiar hip trouble, which took the form of acute pain.
In thinking over what Christian Science has done for me, I came to the conclusion that it was time for me to give it out to the world.
In 1904 I began the study of Christian Science, and it would take considerable time and space to tell of all the blessings I have received through this study.
It is with pleasure and a heart full of gratitude to God that I give this testimony of my healing.
During the month of July, 1893, I was visiting a friend in Pueblo, Col.
Just nine years ago Christian Science was brought to my notice.
If
God is Life, and there is none but HeIn the full-orbed temple of the skies,Then what is death?
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"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," CONTAINING MANY IMPORTANT CHANGES AND ADDITIONS BY THE AUTHOR.
