Every
beginner in Christian Science knows how difficult it seems at first to answer the apparently puzzling questions which our acquaintances who have not studied this wonderful Science put to us, so I will relate one of my own experiences in this line, with the hope that it may help some one else.
That portion of this work [Faith and Works of Christian Science ] which deals with Christian Science as a religion, its genesis, and the life of its Founder, is so crowded with misstatements, misinterpretations, inuendoes, exaggerations, distortions, and strained and unwarranted interpretations advanced to give sinister meaning where there is no warrant for the inferences conveyed, together with the restatement of falsehoods, calumnies, and slanders that have time and again been refuted and disproved, that it would take a volume to expose them.
It will be found upon investigation that thousands of individuals have proved the efficacy of Christian Science to lift them out of the very depths of want as well as to heal them of every kind of physical and moral disease.
We are of the opinion that the best way for a clergyman to prevent his flock from migrating is to make his own gospel so practical and desirable as to forestall any desire to look for "greener pastures.
The purpose of Christian Science is simply the correction of all kinds of error, no matter how time worn or how new to the present sense of the individual and of the human race in general this error may be.
The members of the Christian Science society of Asheville wish to announce that, because they feel that the specific mission of their organization has been fulfilled, and for the sake of increased unity and spiritual cooperation among the Christian Scientists of Asheville, their organization, namely, the Christian Science society, has been permanently dissolved.
Through
all the centuries mankind has been cheated and defrauded by its belief that evil is something real and powerful, but in the last half century, fortunately, through the discovery of Christian Science and its teachings by Mrs.
Every
truly noble nature has met with unnumbered experiances which have excited outspoken revolt against the untoward companionship in human life and thought of good and evil, truth and error.
In
the sixth chapter of Deuteronomy we read: "And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
with contributions from L. N. Blyden Burgh, Helen A. Nixon, Kimball's Association, J. Porter Joplin, Rowland T. Rogers, Winifred S. Ross, Stella Scott Thompson, Edith I. Cohen, Arthur Henry Swank, Ida Hume, Nellie M. Whiteside
Lottie L. Hart
with contributions from Lena M. Hurtt
Ever since I have been in Science, a little more than two years, I have had a great desire to testify to the new life that has dawned for me in Christian Science.
In the book of Job we read: "He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light, " Christian Science has lifted me out of the pit of sickness and suffering into gladness and health.
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with contributions from L. N. Blyden Burgh, Helen A. Nixon, Kimball's Association, J. Porter Joplin, Rowland T. Rogers, Winifred S. Ross, Stella Scott Thompson, Edith I. Cohen, Arthur Henry Swank, Ida Hume, Nellie M. Whiteside