A young
man who had recently become deeply interested in Christian Science, was sitting at his desk in the office where he was employed, attending to the duties before him.
The practice of Christian Science is based on the authority of the Scriptural statement that God is the healer of all the ills that flesh is heir to, both physical and moral.
The oft-repeated attempts to substitute ritual and dogma for the simple gospel teaching have resulted in countless sects, all claiming to be followers of the Master; united in aim, but differing in practice, sometimes with the bitterest intensity of feeling and an utter lack of charity one to the other.
Pain, suffering, and sin are indeed very real to the human sense of things, even as darkness seems real, and they are to be dealt with in a Christianly scientific manner and overcome in the way Jesus pointed out, through the power of God, Spirit.
A student of Christianity, as well as a student of mathematics, must serve an apprenticeship — if we may be permitted to use that term; he must begin as a child in his understanding of truth, and must grow "unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ," by continued application.
Christian Scientists are following the Master in the spirit as well as the letter of his teachings and endeavoring to practise his precepts and religion, pure and undefiled, and there is raised against them the hand of condemnation and reproach, merely because they are unwilling to admit that the power of God is limited, or that faith must be fettered by human opinions and theological dogmas.
That Christian Science and apostolic methods of healing are identical in Principle and operation is evident to any one who has the slightest understanding of the subject.
Not
far away dwells my beloved one!Not simply where the eternal hillsAre clad in brightness, and a great white throneReflects the beauty of a land most fair,And wealth of glory fills the ambient air:Not there—so far away—not there!
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with contributions from Ella J. Roby, Mary B. Easton, Grace Hoffman White, Rosalind Roberts, Anne Dodge, Lottie Bates Burdick, Theodore Stanger, Mary J. Phares, Josephine C. Owen, R. P. Seymour, John C. Stanton, J. C. Derby
An artistic one-story frame bungalow, in old English style of architecture, will be erected soon by Second Church of Christ, Scientist, to be used for the present as a church.
Hoping to benefit my children, who suffered from colds in every form, I took up the study of Christian Science thirteen years ago, when told by an acquaintance that he had been healed by it.
It is not from lack of desire to do good that I have withheld this testimony, for gladly would I do anything which might add one ray of light to another's pathway.
Helen O. Roesing
with contributions from Alice Frickey
Scarcely a day of my life passes that a song of thanksgiving does not well up in my heart for Christian Science, particularly when I look upon my two children and realize how protected they have been by this truth.
This is to testify that after losing my voice for over two weeks, and the doctor who was consulted not knowing what was the matter, I went to a Christian Science practitioner for treatment.
The
clouds hang low, like veils of drifting smoke,With passing, steam-like flurries, showing whiteAgainst the dripping heavens' misty cloak,The more impressive in its silent might.
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with contributions from Ella J. Roby, Mary B. Easton, Grace Hoffman White, Rosalind Roberts, Anne Dodge, Lottie Bates Burdick, Theodore Stanger, Mary J. Phares, Josephine C. Owen, R. P. Seymour, John C. Stanton, J. C. Derby