The joint Champlain Tercentenary Commission of New York and Vermont have authorized Governor Hughes of the New York State Commission and Governor Proctor of the Vermont Commission to each appoint a sub-committee to act jointly as an executive committee to take charge of the arrangements for the celebration which will be held, beginning July 4, 1909, to commemorate the discovery of Lake Champlain by the man whose name it bears.
It
would almost seem as if the arrangements in business and social life had been made with the view of keeping men from consideration of the real purpose of living.
In
the Scriptures many accounts may be found of God's protecting care of His people, and their guidance and deliverance in times of trial and danger, both in individual and national instances.
It
is said by some that they like the moral teaching of Christian Science, but that they are not sure of its reasoning and in any case see no hindrance to practising its ideas without studying the Christian Science text-book.
[Captain Douglas Baynes, who contributes the article on Christian Science to this week's Onlooker, is one of the growing band of English officers who have adopted Christian Science while passing through the Staff College.
More than half the State buildings at the Jamestown Exposition are reproductions of some noted or historic home in the State they represent, and a glance at the New Hampshire building suffices to show that it, too, belongs to this order, for though not of the colonial type familiar to the South, it illustrates a style of architecture popular among the wealthier classes of the North at the close of the eighteenth century.
The
old saying that "experience is the best teacher" has been brought home to many of us through our failure to heed the lessons we should have drawn from the experience of others, and this is true of organizations as surely as it is of individuals.
It
is very significant, with respect to the moral and religious outlook at the present time, that many of the churches are admitting their failure to meet the needs of a large class, and are taking steps to remedy past neglect.
He
who would fill out the larger measure of an effective life must acquire and maintain a right sense of proportion, the breadth and balance of view which interdicts that lop-sided estimate of things described by an Oxford professor as an "overemphasis of a half truth.
with contributions from F. Engee, Alfred Farlow, Scientist, Elizabeth (Whittemore) Ellis, Lucy Ballinger Lindsey, Louis Bendit, Kate C. Schlegelmilch, Mary H. Skeels, E. A. Curtice, Emma H. McLauthlin, Wilbur A. Reeves
Possibly ninety-five per cent of those who are now numbered among the ranks of Christian Scientists have been led into Science or have sought it for healing from some physical or mental disorder.
My kidneys were injured through an accident in a foundry, and for ten years I suffered from them and took treatment of some of the best physicians in this city and elsewhere.
Ten years ago I was healed, spiritually, mentally, and physically, by the study of our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
I desire to express my gratitude to Almighty God for the joy and true happiness that have come into my life since taking up the study of Christian Science and living in the fear of God.
After many years of suffering I was led to see the light in Christian Science by the healing of my son, who also had been a great sufferer, partly through my own fear and the false education of belief in material laws.
For six years I have enjoyed the testimonies given in the Sentinel, and I think it is high time I was expressing my gratitude in like maner for the benefits received through Christian Science.
Out of the depths of a grateful heart I wish to express my thankfulness and joy for the beautiful healings I have experienced since being in Christian Science.
It came to me quite recently that I may seem lacking in appreciation, as I have never testified in our periodicals to the many blessings received from Christian Science.
As I look back over the past I see a wonderful change in my ways of thinking and living, and this change of thought—this better way of living—has been revealed to me by the understanding obtained from the study of Christian Science.
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with contributions from F. Engee, Alfred Farlow, Scientist, Elizabeth (Whittemore) Ellis, Lucy Ballinger Lindsey, Louis Bendit, Kate C. Schlegelmilch, Mary H. Skeels, E. A. Curtice, Emma H. McLauthlin, Wilbur A. Reeves