April 4, 1908
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President Roosevelt, in his message sent to Congress on March 25, deals among other matters with child labor, employers' liability law, modification of the injunction law, amendment to the anti-trust law to permit traffic agreements between railroads, Federal representation on receiverships; changes in the anti-trust law to permit proper and necessary combinations of business men, farmers, or laborers; recognition of the right of employers and employes to combine and contract with one another or with their employes or employers; legalizing of peaceable strikes for the purpose of securing satisfactory wages, but the illegality of violence, disorder, or coercion by the blacklist or boycott; early revision of the traiff, a permanent waterways commission, waterpower rights on navigable rivers.
Most
persons will readily admit that the world's concept of God is not what it should be.
Discussing the phenomenon of miracles from a standpoint which is neither that of Christian Science nor orthodox theology, Matthew Arnold laid stress on what is termed the "moral therapeutics" of Jesus.
It is easy to say that "Christian Science is false," but when the truth of its teachings is being demonstrated daily in healing the sick and reforming the sinner, as Christ Jesus said his disciples should do, it will require more than a mere assertion to convince thinking people that it is not the truth.
A critic is recently reported to have stated that the principal faults that he had to find in the Christian Science doctrine were the denial of Christ's atonement, that heaven is not a place and has no location, and the disbelief in the resurrection.
Christian Science is not, as is commonly supposed, simply a school of physical healing.
Christian Scientists accept the guidance of Science and Health without compulsion.
Christian Science maintains the fact intimated in Dr.
The steady and rapid growth of the Christian Science faith in Chicago is attested by the fact that another congregation will probably be added this week to the eight already established in various parts of the city.
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The author of the Christian Science text-book does not consult nor read letters on disease.
A Complete
Concordance to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," revised from the latest edition of Science and Health, is now on the press and will be ready for delivery in a few days.
We
are glad to give prominence to the following letter, which discloses the attitude of one who appreciates the needs of our Cause, and the work that is being done by The Christian Science Publishing Society:—
One
of the distinguishing signs of the study of Christian Science is an eager desire upon the part of those who read its literature for the spiritual interpretation of the Scriptures.
No harbinger of spring is more welcome or more reliable than the return of the robins, for we know how surely and how soon they will entice the cherry and apple buds from their cozy hidings and select a site for their home nests in the heart of their bloom.
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Each branch Church of Christ, Scientist, is requested to send, on or before May 1, a report of its total membership.
It is with a deep and enduring sense of thankfulness that I look back to the time of my emancipation from utter darkness and despair to the freedom which came to my mental home when the light and love of Christian Science first opened my blind eyes.
I am a traveling salesman and have been for nearly fifteen years.
As I read in the Sentinel the many grateful testimonies from California, I feel rebuked, because not one of those who have given testimony has more to be thankful for than have I.
Four years ago, while in Chicago, I received what was called a sunstroke, which aggravated troubles that I had been afflicted with for years.
A few years ago I was taken ill with acute lung trouble.
I would like to give my testimony to Christian Science in our valuable paper.
For over fifteen years I was an invalid.
In the winter of 1904 I had a severe cold, which developed into acute throat trouble accompanied with the usual suffering of that disease.
About the year 1900 I began to experience periods of mental depression, which would disappear with a day or two of recreation.
I wish to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has done and is continually doing for me.
I desire to acknowledge all the good I have received in Christian Science.
I thank God for all the blessings which I have received in Christian Science.
About six years ago, when a dreaded epidemic was raging here, I seemed to manifest some of the symptoms of the disease, and expressed a great deal of fear.
I am glad to add my testimony to those of the many who have been healed and blessed by Christian Science.
It is now over twelve years since Christian Science came to me, and I have had many proofs of the everpresence of infinite Love.
In one short year Christian Science has healed me of chronic stomach and bowel trouble, also of profanity, and as my understanding has increased, I have been able to overcome fear to a great extent and also to realize the nothingness of the habits of drinking and tobacco chewing.
I should like to add my testimony to the many I have read in the Sentinel.
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"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," containing many important changes and additions by the author.
