Postmaster General Meyer, in arguing for the establishment of postal savings banks, notes the fact that fourteen States of the Union have savings bank deposits of over three and a half billions of dollars, or 98.
[A statement of the following very interesting case was sent to a popular magazine which has published the medical opinion that Christian Science has never healed any so-called organic diseases.
Many
students of Christian Science, as well as Christian people generally, make a mistake in attempting too much at the start, or rather in not rightly selecting the phase or manifestation of error over which they attempt to demonstrate at the beginning.
We
are told that "the fossil forest of the Yellowstone Park is a mountain composed of layers of a greenish sandstone, containing the trunks of silicified trees," and that "shells, bones, corals, etc.
It has probably been the experience of almost every doctor of to-day to be asked by his patients for his opinion of Christian Science as a healing agency, and one would not be far wrong in saying that the fact that Christian Science practitioners do not consider it necessary to use the stethoscope and thermometer and other means of ascertaining the actual physical condition which they propose to relieve, is considered by the majority of doctors to be a full and sufficient reason for declaring that the cures cannot be genuine.
The attack on Christian Scientists, their Leader and belief, by a minister of this city, is regrettable as showing the intolerance of the orthodox clergy toward another denomination.
The Church to-day is exceedingly unfortunate in the interpretations of the ages of theological expressions from which they cannot free themselves, and the definition of words of necessary use, making it almost impossible to read into them now their real meaning as used from the modern pulpit.
When the term healing is used in Christian Science, it must be remembered that it is applied equally to the destruction of all that is unlike God, whether sickness or disease, pain or emotional ecstasy, sorrow or despair, misery, want, or sin.
It is interesting to note from a recent New York despatch published by your paper that the leading psychologists, clergymen, and physicians are endeavoring to discover how much of Christian Science they can with propriety adopt in their practice.
If the reverend critic has something better to offer, a hungry world is waiting for that very thing, but experience has shown that no great religious movement was ever advanced by virulent attacks on the real or supposed beliefs of others, instead of a Christianly, dignified exposition of one's own belief.
To ensure prompt receipt of The Christian Science Monitor by residents in Greater Boston and other cities and towns in the New England afternoon newspaper field, subscriptions already received by The Christian Science Publishing Society from these districts will be delivered by carrier, unless the Society is otherwise instructed.
If
we may judge by some of the inquiries received at this office, a number of our friends do not fully understand the scope of the daily newspaper soon to be issued by The Christian Science Publishing Society.
Nothing
could be more dramatic, more appealing to the imagination, than the circumstances of that early morning hour when the land-birds first fluttered about his little caravels, and peering through the enveloping haze the brave Genoese caught his first glimpse of a new world.
Christian Scientists
are asked a great many questions by people who, without knowing it, are trying to reconcile material belief with spiritual reality.
with contributions from Clifford P. Smith, Eunice Pond Athey, Calvin C. Thomas, Belle Cuningham, Dora L. Phillips, Kathryn Van Horne, Frances S. Turner, Nellie M. Brawn, Elizabeth Verne, First Church of Christ, Scientist, Charles F. Doms, William Lloyd, Dorothea Lowe
An object of great interest to local Christian Scientists, as well as to those throughout Southern California, is the beautiful new church now being built by Second Church of Christ, Scientist, of Los Angeles, on Adams Street near Hoover.
O Love
divine! reveal Thy presence now,That in Thy glorious fulness all may seeThat sin, disease, and even death must bowBefore Thy more than might, and majesty.
With deep gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me, I wish to add my testimony to those of the thousands of others who have been helped through the same means.
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with contributions from Clifford P. Smith, Eunice Pond Athey, Calvin C. Thomas, Belle Cuningham, Dora L. Phillips, Kathryn Van Horne, Frances S. Turner, Nellie M. Brawn, Elizabeth Verne, First Church of Christ, Scientist, Charles F. Doms, William Lloyd, Dorothea Lowe