While
Christian Science was still new to the writer, there came to her for decision a moral question which she at first attempted to settle by the old method of mental debate and the balancing of reasons.
When
first interested in Christian Science I used to attend services in a small chapel which was used while First Church of Christ, Scientist, London, was being constructed on the adjoining plot of ground.
Conceding that drugs, with the action of which the doctors are wholly unfamiliar, are often harmful rather than beneficial, Professor Thayer, of the Johns Hopkins medical faculty, confesses himself a firm believer in the simpler physical and psychical methods of treating disease.
In the 1907 second revised edition of our text-book, Science and Health, some changes have been made in the line numbers since the Quarterly for January, February, March was prepared.
A recent
critic of Christian Science, who asserted that he had no other object to accomplish than to refute erroneous doctrines that had been widely circulated, is quoted by the Baltimore Sun as saying that our Master's injunctions to his disciples to heal the sick were directed only to the twelve apostles, and that there is no Biblical authority for concluding that they are applicable to all mankind.
The
significance of the stand which Christian Science has taken for a demonstrable knowledge of spiritual truth is more clearly seen when we note the multiplicity and the strength of those currents of thought which have originated in mental revolt against the inconsistency and unsatisfactoriness of theologies that have been dogmatic but not demonstrable, creedal but not convincing.
A most
interesting feature of the late Christmas season was a sermon preached here by Rabbi Fleischer on the subject, "What the Jews owe to Christianity," a sermon which was prefaced by the reading of the Beatitudes and the fifth chapter of Mark's Gospel.
We
again call our readers' attention to the fact that authorized Christian Science literature, whether books, pamphlets, or periodicals, is published only by Mrs.
As the members of the Reading Room Association have realized its oneness with the parent Vine, The Mother Church, and its place in this vigorous branch, First Church of Christ, Scientist, of New London, Conn.
I give this testimony with the hope that some dear one, weary and spent with the burdens of the day, may read the lines which convey the message of what Christian Science has done for me, and that I may thus glorify our Father in heaven.
In speaking this word for Christian Science, my heart is full of love and gratitude for what this wonderful truth has done and is doing for me in every way.
I could write of many victories of Truth over error that have come within my experience during the past eight years, but will confine myself to one, a trouble which was not met quickly.
For nearly seventeen years I was a chronic sufferer from serious rheumatic trouble, not continuously but at irregular intervals, any unusual exercise bringing on a severe attack.
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