The Governors of New York and New Jersey, officers of the Hudson-Fulton celebration commission, and the commission whose work made the event possible, participated on the 27th ult.
So fixed in the thought of the ancients was the mental picture of a flat earth, that their mistaken theory of the solar system passed unchallenged in the face of indications which, to the more enlightened sense of today, enforce an altogether different conclusion.
PEOPLE
outside the ranks of Christian Science are some times heard to speak of various individuals as Christian Science "leaders" in this or that church or community.
An
editorial on the subject of temperance in a recent issue of the Sentinel, recalls to thought my own mental attitude as to this subject before Christian Science quickened my sense of right and wrong.
[The readers of the Sentinel will be pleased with the logical and scholarly manner in which some recent mis-statements of Christian Science are met in the article which follows.
Christian Science never attempts to work through will-power or through what is known as mental suggestion; it does not rely for cure upon any supposed influence of the human mind, but depends wholly upon God — divine Mind.
It
has often been said, and we believe it to be true, that many of the false impressions of Christian Science which prevail with the public are largely due to the foolish and utterly unscientific talk and actions of persons who are supposed to be, and in name are, Christian Scientists, but who, alas, entertain a concept of its teachings more or less at variance with its text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
Of
all human possessions, none surely is so essential to our peace and progress as to have and maintain a thought of God that enables us to escape the assaults of doubt which untoward earthly experience is forever precipitating, and which eventuate in the moral wreck of so many careers.
with contributions from Martorie Colles, Florence I. Davis, Adelaide G. Kennard, C. M. Carroll White, Jane C. Havens, Ralph R. Chapman, Jeannette Rose Goodman, W. S. ILIFF, W. Osborne Lilley
[It will not be out of place, perhaps, to state that the letters which appear in this column from week to week are but a few out of the many wise and good communications received by Mrs.
I have long felt that I should tell of the many blessings which have been mine since I heard of Christian Science, and thus help some other travelers on their road from sense to Soul.
I have received many benefits through the study of the Christian Science text book, and I have come to the point where I must voice my gratitude or be self-condemned.
In these days when so much is being written and said about Christian Science not being able to heal organic lesions, or of there being no proof thereof, I feel it is time for Christian Scientists to speak whereof they know.
With the hope that my testimony may help some one who thinks he has carried his burden too long to be relieved of it here and now, I wish to tell what Christian Science has done for me.
In September, 1902, I became acquainted with Christian Science here in Hannover, after I had suffered for seventeen years both physically and mentally.
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with contributions from Martorie Colles, Florence I. Davis, Adelaide G. Kennard, C. M. Carroll White, Jane C. Havens, Ralph R. Chapman, Jeannette Rose Goodman, W. S. ILIFF, W. Osborne Lilley