September 28, 1907
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The new charter for the city of Chicago, authorized by the State Legislature at its last session, was rejected by the voters at its recent special election, by a majority of more than sixty-two thousand.
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are two cases which have recently been mentioned in the correspondence in your columns to which, inasmuch as they deal with matters of fact, I should like to be permitted to refer.
Whenever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth is on the persecuted side.
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are the meditations of the heart when we perceive that God is indeed All-in-all, and when we realize that henceforth our every worthy thought must imply a recognition of this eternal fact.
No one need be a "Christian Scientist" to do what is obviously the wisest thing under all circumstances—live a clean, healthy life, and so put oneself beyond the pale of disease.
Christian Science brought much happiness and contentment and health to two friends of mine whom medical men had been treating for years.
In an issue of late date you reported a discussion of Christian Science by the Rev.
Our reverend critic says that good thoughts are beneficial up to a certain point, but that they have their limitations,—that no amount of thought will set a broken leg or restore the crushed hand.
I picked up a newspaper this morning and found a paragraph that read after this fashion: "If we would avoid war, we should train our young men how to fight.
One thousand men and women, interested in the civic and industrial welfare of this city.
As parents have control of their children, if their experience with materia medica and Christian Science has convinced them of the greater efficacy of Christian Science, they certainly have the right to use it for their children in time of sickness, and as the practice of Christian Science is the practice of their religion, the National and State constitutions guarantee them this right.
If you would gain an idea of the religious spirit of a great part of the North American people, of a religion that is simple, convincing, iconoclastic, visit the temple of Christian Science; perhaps your Latin temperament, always on guard against strange novelties, will keep you from believing; but you will carry away with you an impression of fervor and of spiritual tranquillity.
In Christian Science the divine Mind alone is acknowledged as supreme.
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The author of the Christian Science text-book does not consult nor read letters on disease.
Any
one who takes the trouble to analyze his own peculiar beliefs and those of his friends, will not be surprised to find that superstition is at the root of most of them, but we doubt whether very many realize how widespread is the belief which exists in the popular superstitions of the day.
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has been well said that "it requires a philosophical mood to seek the undeterminate good," and the Christian teaching which has begotten a sense of spiritual realities as far-removed and intangible is in no small degree responsible for the fact that so-called material good, rather than spiritual, commands for the most part the world's attention.
At
this season of the year we think naturally of the fruits of the earth and remember the Divine promise, "Seedtime and harvest shall not fail.
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The pamphlet, "The Ministry of Truth," has been translated into German, and orders for it are now being filled at the following prices: One copy or more, six cents each; twelve copies to one address, sixty cents; twenty-five copies to one address $1.
The Christian Scientists of Fayetteville held the first service in their new hall in the Buck-McCaskill Block Sunday morning [Aug.
I have more reasons than most people to be grateful to our beloved Leader, Mrs.
I have received so much help from our periodicals that my heart overflows with gratitude and love to God, good.
Two weeks ago a little girl was born to us.
Christian Science has done so much for me that I scarcely know what to tell of, but recently I had an experience which helped me greatly to appreciate this wonderful truth.
Words fail me when I try to express the gratitude I feel for what Christian Science has done for me.
Three years ago I came to know what Christian Science could do for those who are willing to be obedient to God's law.
Nine years ago proof of God's ever-present help in time of sickness was revealed to me.
Two years ago my ten-year-old son suffered a very severe injury to his eye.
I was afflicted with severe bowel trouble for about one year, being under medical treatment for weeks at a time.
From childhood I was afflicted with severe bowel trouble.
I have felt for a long time that I should give my experience in Christian Science for publication, as my healing was such a beautiful demonstration of God's power.
My heart is full of the deepest gratitude to God, and to our dearly beloved Leader, Mrs.
For many years I was a sufferer, supposedly from organic diseases, had passed through several periods of intense suffering, and had undergone one operation.
Although I had seen several friends healed from seemingly incurable diseases through Christian Science, it did not appeal to me.
With a deep feeling of gratitude and love to God, and to our dear Leader, Mrs.
