May 30, 1908
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A plan has been proposed to stop the costly spring floods at Pittsburg and other places along the rivers which drain the Appalachian Mountains.
The
beginner in Christian Science is often tempted to think that he could progress more rapidly if he were in different atmosphere, surroundings, or circumstances.
Hitherto
the Lord hath helped us—Rest, my soul, in that sweet thought:Every evil that assailed us,Overcome and brought to naught.
It is to be regretted that your honored paper has been willing to give place in its columns to an article so unworthy and misleading as the one with the heading "Christian Science Humbug" in the issue of last Saturday.
Christian Science accepts the undivided garment of divine healing as taught and practised by Christ Jesus and repeated in the works of his followers, but Christian Scientists do not believe that the works of Jesus and his disciples were miracles in the common, mistaken sense of the term, nor do they accept the theory that the Master or his followers, in the performance of these works of healing, violated a law of God or worked contrary to it.
The statement is made in a late issue that "from the exercise of the will comes also magical therapeutics, the ancestor of Christian Science.
There is not the slightest doubt in the mind of the editor but that those of the Christian Science faith have something satisfying in a religious doctrine.
Our critic takes exception to any reference to Jesus as a scientific man, and yet no doubt he would admit that the man Christ Jesus knew more than any other personage that the world has ever known, and certainly what he knew was scientific, since any definite or specific knowledge is science.
Recently a number of leading monthly and daily journals, among them The Century, The Outlook, and the New York Times, have devoted much space to the work of some well-known clergymen in Boston and Chicago in establishing medico-religious dispensaries in connection with their churches.
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A large and appreciative audience listened to a lecture on Christian Science delivered by Edward A.
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The author of the Christian Science text-book does not consult nor read letters on disease.
When
the By-law was passed to exclude scholars above a certain age from the Sabbath School it was requisite, and when the spiritual point at issue was attained the older members were invited and received into the Sabbath School.
The
slight changes which have been made in the design of the seal on the cover of Science and Health and our Leader's other books, as well as on the Journal, Der Herold, and the Quarterly, have given rise to some speculation and inquiry, and the following extract from one of the many letters which have been received at this office indicates the nature of this speculation:—
No fact respecting the truth is more interesting than this, that it is always fresh and new, it does not grow insipid, and it does not tire.
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We
are in receipt of a copy of the "Daily Mail Year-Book of the Churches," which contains an article on Christian Science by Mr.
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The 72d edition of The Mother Church Manual, containing all of the recent changes, including some new By-laws, has been issued and is now on sale.
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The new Concordance to Science and Health, revised and brought up to date to give the students of Christian Science every facility for the careful study of the text-book, is now on sale.
I have many reasons for being grateful to God and to our beloved Leader.
I am thankful indeed for all that Christian Science has done for me.
Having received so much benefit from the testimonies given in our periodicals, I send mine with the hope that it may help some one as I have been helped.
Five years ago I was wandering in the wilderness of the belief that material remedies heal all our diseases, although I had been living in my sister's family, where the efficacy of Christian Science treatment was brought to my notice; but it did not seem to be for me.
When I think what I was prior to my small understanding of Christian Science, and what I am to-day because of it, I cannot be too thankful that this great light was rekindled in the day in which I live.
In 1900, while living in Denver, I became interested in Christian Science, as I was seeking health for my dear mother, who had been a great sufferer for ten years.
Nearly a year ago I was advised by a friend to try Christian Sciencek, to see if it would not take me out of the bondage in which I had been held for many years.
If it were more generally known that the dreaded malady seasickness is absolutely preventable by Christian Science treatment, doubtless many would resort to this beneficent ministry, as no other means has heretofore availed to protect those who are susceptible to this peculiar form of suffering.
At the close of the year 1905 I suffered a complete physical breakdown, which was diagnosed as stomach and nervous trouble, etc.
It has been almost three years since I began the study of Christian Science, and many are the blessings I have received, one being the healing of my little boy, who was very ill with a dreaded disease of the kidneys.
The psalmist said, "I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living;" and how surely this was true in my own case! Although I was only a young girl when Christian Science found me, yet life seemed hardly worth while.
I began the study of Christian Science five years ago, when I was quickly healed of serious troubles of long standing.
I may
not know the breath that thrills the trees,Nor whose the touch that gives the grass its green,Nor how it is the snowflake gets its sheen,And why the rain-cloud woos the southern breeze.
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The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key To The Scriptures.
