The members of the forestry division of the National Commission for the Conservation of Our National Resources, appointed by President Roosevelt last June, have just returned from a trip to Germany, France, and Switzerland, where they have been studying forestry conditions with the idea of adapting some of the foreign forestry methods to our forests.
In
Christian Science great emphasis is laid upon the Scriptural statements that God is Spirit; God is eternal; God is perfect; and God is the only cause and creator.
Some
time since, the idea of the divine sonship, as exemplified in the transfiguration, together with the sweet possibility of its attainment as portrayed in the vision of the Apocalypse, featured prominently in one of our Lesson-Sermons.
Suppose
a man were to go to a bank and demand one hundred dollars, and the paying teller found he had no account with the bank, what would and what should the teller do?
Once,
just before Thanksgiving, while thinking of the wide continent which separated me from home and loved ones, a feeling of loneliness and sadness came over me for an instant.
Our
attention has recently been called to a remark by the late Professor Huxley, that it is probably impossible to find an acceptable definition of the world religion.
We publish to-day [July 10] a letter in defense of Christian Science, written in answer to certain strictures which appeared in our columns a couple of weeks ago.
The purpose of this article is not to criticize the methods of the medical profession; it is rather to show that the age in which we live demands a more intellectual and spiritual medicine, and that Christian Science is meeting this demand.
To meditate on the "law of the Lord, day and night," and to have delight therein, means simply that he who, through spiritual understanding, discerns the unseen but ever-present, ever-operative power of God in all things, and who readily yields his will to the divine impulse, shall surely prosper.
The teaching of Science and Health with regard to marriage, which seems to disturb our critic, is based upon the teaching of Christ Jesus that the human institution of marriage is a "suffer it to be so now" condition, the obligations and responsibilities of which must be conscientiously observed by those who assume them, but that when the universal consciousness has been sufficiently spiritualized to have eliminated the belief of intelligence and life in matter—the state of consciousness referred to by Jesus as the resurrection—then, as he declares, there will be no marrying or giving in marriage, but they shall be "as the angels of God in heaven.
It
is scarcely possible to lay too much emphasis upon the fact that joy is one of the essentials of our being, that it is to our mentality what sunshine is to fruit and flower.
The Publishing Society has been asked by some subscribers to the Quarterly to trim down their copies to the size of the pocket edition of Science and Health, and, in order to meet this demand, trimmed copies of this size—4½ x 6½—will be furnished on application, provided a request accompanies the order or subscription.
This is to testify that after twenty-six years of suffering I am completely healed of bronchial and asthmatic trouble, as well as of other complications, by the understanding of the Principle of Christian Science.
Being "compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses" to the power of ever-present Truth to destroy all forms of error, discord, or disease, of whatever name, I feel prompted to add my mite of testimony to some of the good that has come to me through Christian Science.
I feel that I should no longer refrain from expressing in some measure, through our periodicals, my gratitude to God, and to our dear Leader for what Christian Science has done for me.
It was for relief from acute physical pain that I turned to Christian Science, but having learned that God is Mind and that man is spiritual, I straightway threw an earnest effort on the side of a complete religious life.
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