The temporary legislation which was enacted to meet the conditions of the panic of 1907 will come up for reconsideration when Congress convenes in December.
It
is recorded of the celebrated naturalist, Charles Darwin, that he raised over sixty wild plants from seed imbedded in a pellet of mud taken from the leg of a partridge.
The
heading of these lines, but not the subject-matter, was suggested by a very helpful article, entitled "The Church Usher's Opportunity," which appeared in the Sentinel not long ago.
Night
found me in a pathless way and drear,Halting before the temper of the hail;I looked to train my steps, but groped in fear;I prayed with hapless patience to availOne favor of the beam-bestowing moon.
In an article entitled "Truth and Error," which appeared in a recent issue of the Enquirer, the writer, having referred to Christian Science as a "beautiful half truth," desires to be noted "as first commending the good in it" before taking issue with what he does not understand and therefore condemns as error.
I am not a Christian Scientist, nor a press agent for that growing faith, but I have sometimes wondered why the newspapers are so chary about publishing the many Christian Science cures that everybody hears of except through the press.
Nothing so convicts the world of faith without understanding, of belief without demonstration, as its haunting fear of that which the really well-ordered, faithful, and righteous know is not at all to be feared.
"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" cannot properly be referred to as "the Bible of the Christian Scientists," and is never so referred to by Christian Scientists themselves.
Recently in the Herald a Pasadena correspondent asked for enlightenment as to the Christian Science attitude toward the "existing industrial and social system.
In our issue of July 31, 1909, there appeared under the heading "None good but one," a number of quotations from a composite letter, dated July 10, which had been written to Mrs.
Our
great Master humbly said, "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls;" and it is only in this humble and unassuming spirit of the Master, that "self-abnegation by which we lay down all for Truth, or Christ, in our warfare against error".
with contributions from Helen E. Studley, Alice C. Cooke, H. B. Millar, Minnie S. Millar, L. Aarons, Frank M. Hill, John T. Neu, Robert E. Carey, Sarah E. Crabb, Francis J. Fluno
The Editorial Department has nothing to do with the business affairs of the Christian Science Publishing Society, nor with practitioners' cards and church notices in the Journal, and NO REMITTANCES SHOULD BE MADE TO THE EDITOR.
It is with the deepest gratitude to God that I pen these lines, in my endeavor to explain briefly what Christian Science has meant to both my wife and myself.
Many times, both in our meetings and in private, I have availed myself of the privilege of testifying to the power of Christ, Truth, in telling what Christian Science has done for me; yet, when the thought has presented itself that I ought to write an account of my healing for one of our publications.
A heav'nly
yearning rises in my heartTo pierce beyond the shifting veil of sense,To see all Thou beholdest, all Thou art,To know what underlies this frail pretense.
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with contributions from Helen E. Studley, Alice C. Cooke, H. B. Millar, Minnie S. Millar, L. Aarons, Frank M. Hill, John T. Neu, Robert E. Carey, Sarah E. Crabb, Francis J. Fluno