April 25, 1908
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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.
The
overcoming of poverty seems, to mortal mind, to be a very difficult problem in most cases.
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.
In denying the reality of "the ills which flesh is heir to," let it be understood what Mrs.
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.
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The author of the Christian Science text-book does not consult nor read letters on disease.
The
Easter season just past has wonderful lessons for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
The study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
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.
I came into Christian Science nine months ago, seeking relief from worry and mental depression caused by fear.
From childhood I was an earnest seeker for the truth, but when Christian Science was first brought to my notice, in 1891, it did not appeal to me.
I should like to tell the readers of the Sentinel of the many great benefits I have received since coming into the understanding of Christian Science.
I desire to express my gratitude for the many blessings I have received through Christian Science.
When I was asked to try Christian Science, after my only child passed on, I did so because Christian Science spoke of Life and not of death.
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.
A few years ago I became interested in Christian Science through reading some of its literature, which had been given me by a friend.
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.
With a heart full of gratitude to God for having been helped on the way, I rejoice with others for benefits received through Christian Science.
Words cannot express the gratitude I feel for what Christian Science has done for me.
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"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," containing many important changes and additions by the author.
