July 25, 1908
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Starting from City Hall steps, New York, at ten o'clock, July 15, an athlete, carrying a silver tube containing a message from Mayor McClellan to Mayor Busse of Chicago, darted up Broadway on the first relay of a thousand-mile journey to Chicago.
THE
beneficent work of Christian Science is thoroughly known and recognized in the lines of physical healing, moral reformation, and spiritual quickening and illumination.
WE
are all familiar with the thought that a correct application of the rules of Christian Science is as accurate in result as a correct application of the rules of the science of mathematics.
IF
your friend is indeed a thinker—eyes open and alert—and has a heart yearning for religious insight; if he has come among the Christian Scientists honestly seeking spiritual food and facts, he should find:—
If all thinkers were to accept the dictum of Miss Reed, in her address on Christian Science before the Pan-Anglican Congress, that it was unnecessary to know anything of the person or works of the founder of a new movement before discussing it, the art of criticism would be in a parlous condition.
In every step Christ Jesus took he counseled with the Father before taking it.
In no one point is Christian Science so much misunderstood as that of prayer.
The gentleman declares, "To this superstition countless deaths and untold suffering are already to be charged, because it prevented the early resort to modern scientific treatment.
Perhaps one of the most popular fallacies regarding the method of Christian Science is the idea that it ignores sin and sickness and that if you only think you are well you will be so.
Even the most hard-headed conservative cannot deny that Christian Science has done much good in the world.
"By their fruits ye shall know them" is a saying which points to the most trustworthy method of forming a correct estimate of people and systems.
The central point on which all Christian Science turns is the absolute supremacy of God—not a supremacy which after a struggle with other powers leaves Him the victor, with perhaps what seem sorely depleted ranks, but a supremacy so absolute and complete that there is no place for any other opposing powers nor opportunity for the exercise of their apparent abilities for evil.
Christian Scientists to-day are gaining the same conviction that Elijah gained; they are learning that God is not to be found in storm and tempest, the relentless forces of a mysterious world; but that the "still, small voice" of Truth may still be heard, speaking to the human consciousness.
While Christian Science has its devotees by tens of thousands, it also has its opponents.
The crowded meeting of the Christian Scientists at Queen's Hall affords a remarkable indication of one aspect of the mentality of the age in which we live.
No Christian Scientist with any knowledge of the subject would pretend to deny the reality of sin, sickness, and suffering as a part of the phenomena of human existence.
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The author of the Christian Science text-book does not consult nor read letters on disease.
THE
fair and courteous attitude of an increasing number of newspapers toward Christian Science is well shown in the following paragrphs, which we clip from a recent issue of The Onlooker, a weekly paper of general circulation published in London.
FAITHFUL
students of Christian Science all bear witness to the fact that it has brought them an altogether new sense of the accessibility of divine Love; that it has begotten a most helpful and impelling realization of the nearness of the saving Christ, and of the naturalness of that healing work which is to be accomplished in every receptive heart.
IT
was the great Teacher who to his disciples, when they were slow to comprehend some of his teachings, "Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God.
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A large audience greeted Bicknell Young of Chicago in the Opera House on Friday evening, April 3, when he spoke on the subject of Christian Science.
Although I had been a church member for forty years, and part of that time a Sunday School teacher, yet I never had been able to understand clearly the declaration of our Master, "I am the way.
Many times I have thought of writing to the Sentinel to tell how I came into Christian Science and of my healing.
While reading an article which recently appeared in the Sentinel, I was reminded of my first experience with Mrs.
It is just a little over two years since I began the study of Christian Science, and during that time I have received so many benefits and proofs of the power of divine Love, that I feel impelled to send this testimony to the Sentinel, with the hope it may help some other mother.
I wish to express my deep, heartfelt gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me.
I desire to add my testimony to the many others, in the hope that some mother may be helped as I have been.
It is with pleasure that I give my testimony, for by so doing I may tell to the world what Christian Science has done for me ; and I hope my experience may be the means of bringing health to others.
I would like to tell what Christian Science has done for me.
Christian Science has been of so much help to me during the past ten years that I wish to express a little of the gratitude and appreciation which I feel.
I became interested in Christian Science about two years ago.
In giving my testimony I must be numbered among those who did not come to Christian Science for physical healing, but who through earnest and unprejudiced investigation have found Christian Science to be the truth.
Thinking it may help or encourage some other seeker after Truth, as I have often been helped, I will tell of the healing of my ten-year-old boy of what the doctors termed a chronic skin disease.
'Tis
well to see with holy eyesThe vision on the mountain-height,But now the valley, with its needs,Must know our deeds of holy might:A might made possible by Truth,That comes with garments pure and white,To heal the sick and sinful ones,And lead them to the mountain-height.
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THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXT-BOOK, "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES.
