The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has favorably reported a bill regulating the practice of granting injunctions by United States courts restraining the enforcement of State statutes.
How
to get "out with the sinner and in with the saint" is a perplexing problem prior to the advent of Christian Science in individual consciousness, but this Science begins at once to unfold to humanity the spiritual unity existing between God and man, and through such unfolding the unreal nature of so-called mortal life is brought to light.
In
Luke's Gospel we read that when the Pharisees objected to the acclamations of the multitude, on the occasion of Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the Master said.
Indifferent
toleration of the imperfect conditions of human life, or joyless resignation to the belief that such conditions are inevitable, may be called content; but the term is properly applied only to the glad satisfaction that one feels when he has learned the real purpose of life and labor, and is working toward the fulfilment of this purpose.
Many readers of the fourth chapter of John think that in saying, "Thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband," our Master administered a merited rebuke to the Samaritan woman; but a study of the Scriptures in the light of our text-book shows this to be but one of the many instances where Jesus used a familiar material symbol to illustrate a spiritual truth.
I have
been surprised to find some misapprehension in regard to the right manner of studying the Sunday Bible-Lessons, as given in the Christian Science Quarterly.
When
I first began to attend the service at The Mother Church, I was a member of an orthodox church, and as the Reader announced the author's name at the reading of the Christian Science text-book I thought there was too much emphasis laid on it.
In proof of our statement that Christian Science is Christianity pure and unadulterated, it is necessary to consider two points,—first, what constitutes Christianity; second, does Christian Science embody Christianity?
Christian Science is the effort to make the teaching of Jesus as practical in the twentieth century as it was in the first, and it must be remembered that the practice of Christianity in the first century applied not only to the broad question of human progress, but to every minutiæ of human existence.
When a Christian minister espouses the cause of the material senses and turns advocate for them, he places himself, perhaps unwittingly, in the ranks of the materialists, a paradoxical position for a Christian.
When Christian Science comes into one's life, the community has gained a better man, a better father, and a better citizen, and one who is daily striving to practise the Golden Rule and is seeking his own in another's good.
Lead
on and upward, O thou voice divine!Full well we know that matter's temporal claimWeighs not one jot against our heavenward course,And now we fain would prove it.
It
may be questioned if there is any other word in our language which awakens so much vague, indefinite, and altogether erroneous thought as the word "law.
Mary Russell Oakley
with contributions from B. F. Stoltey, Clarence A. Buskirk, Grace E. Lamphear, N. H. Conklin, C. H. Rippey, Anna S. Porter, Margaret E. Halley, Albert E. Miller, Lucy Hammond, George S. Haddock
Seeing the need for an extension of the Reading Room work in the large residential districts of Chicago, Third Church of Christ, Scientist, has decided to establish a Reading Room in the section of the city known as the West Side, the most populous division of the city.
with contributions from Melville C. Spaulding, P. G. W. Keller, R. E. Bunker, Albert Bushnell Hart
An audience of fully three thousand persons gathered at Memorial Hall, March 15, to listen to the lecture of Bicknell Young of Chicago on Christian Science.
Happiness and Christian Science came to me at the same time, and I must confess that at first the former seemed to mean much more than the latter; but as the years have gone on since then I have come to see more and more clearly that it is only through Christian Science that my happiness has come to me, and that without it there can be no real or lasting happiness.
It is now about a year since I first became interested in Christian Science, and I am thankful to God, also to the beloved Leader of Christian Science, to be able to say a few words which may help some one else.
It is sometimes asked why Christian Scientists are so earnest and enthusiastic in their efforts to share some of the many blessings they have received with others,—perhaps a relative or a sick neighbor, one who is striving to be made free, yet with a strong faith in material means.
Would that I could say to the whole world, "I am free!" Having been in bondage for ten years, consulting seven of the most prominent physicians, I was compelled to un dergo an operation for organic complications, which necessitated my remaining in a hospital for four months.
That "one on God's side is a majority" was proven conclusively in our home some time ago, and we have ever felt grateful for the demonstration of Truth's power.
About seven years ago I became acquainted with Christian Science, after having suffered for seventeen years with a very bad case of stomach trouble, which was so serious that for three years the physicians had been able to give me only temporary relief by hypodermic injections.
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Mary Russell Oakley
with contributions from B. F. Stoltey, Clarence A. Buskirk, Grace E. Lamphear, N. H. Conklin, C. H. Rippey, Anna S. Porter, Margaret E. Halley, Albert E. Miller, Lucy Hammond, George S. Haddock