November 13, 1909
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In his journey about the nation President Taft last week visited Jackson, Miss.
FILLED
with the Holy Ghost; conscious through meekness and obedience of his nearness to the Father; hearing with joy his great kinsman's humble acknowledgment of his unspoken claim; and crowned during the initial step of his career by a heavenly voice which characterized him as indeed the Son of God,—there came to Jesus after his baptism that human sense of reaction which shadows the footsteps of the reformer and which has hurled many from the heights of assurance to the depths of doubt.
ABOVE
all the many contradictory opinions about physical, mental, moral, social, civil, political, religious, national, and international reform movements, there must be a best way; and it must be best for mankind to walk in this best way, which must necessarily transcend all other ways because it is based on truth, and all other ways must lack in some degree the faultlessness of truth.
AN
item which is going the round of the papers says that a western farmer has discovered that artichokes will crowd out Canadian thistles, and that now some other farmer must find something to crowd out the artichokes! This suggests the line of action which very many are pursuing today.
On the sixth day of October, 1909, First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Omaha, Neb.
The conjoined propositions of the Christian Science textbook, that God is Spirit and that Spirit is the only Life, substance, and intelligence, are not to be found anywhere in literature outside the Scriptures and in those writings which are founded upon Mrs.
In their efforts to benefit humanity Christian Scientists are impelled by very much the same motives that actuate their brethren of other religious denominations.
Healing in Christian Science is the attempt to demonstrate in the world today the practical effects of grasping the meaning of that great saying of Christ Jesus, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
If Christian Science is what its critics believe it to be, it would have succumbed ere now to the numerous attacks made upon it.
The Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
It should not be a cause for displeasure to any honest "truth seeker" that there is a truth which, properly understood, will and does make free—free from worry, anxiety, and fear; free from want, disease, and despair; free from lack and limitation; wholly and practically free.
Our ministerial critic generously admits that Christian Science has done good in awakening those spiritually listless to a more earnest study of their Bibles, in making people more unselfish and cheerful, and in curing "a limited number of functional troubles.
Christian Science does not claim to work miracles; on the contrary, it teaches that no miracle ever has been performed.
But why bandy words in vain disputations?
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The following recommendation is offered in a letter recently received by the editor of the Monitor:—
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The author of the Christian Science text-book takes no patients, and reads no letters on disease, distress, or error of any kind.
My
address before the Christian Scientist Association has been misrepresented and evidently misunderstood by some students.
As
there seems to be an effort to misrepresent the motives of Virgil O.
SINCE
the publication of the article, "The Integrity of Christian Science Literature," in our issue of Aug.
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In the presence of the largest audience that ever attended such a lecture in Fort Wayne, Judge William G.
In the spring of 1897 my attention was called to Christian Science and a friend loaned me a copy of "Retrospection and Introspection" by Mrs.
Through my sister, who had been healed in Christian Science of a hopeless disease of ten years' standing, I became acquainted with Christian Science at a time when I was expecting childbirth.
I want to let others know what Christian Science has done for me.
Last March my three children became very ill.
We always think with great joy and gratitude of our loving Father, the dispenser of health and harmony; we are mindful of His Son, Jesus Christ, who has revealed to us the divine power, and we remember with gratitude the Discoverer of Christian Science, through whom the Christ-healing has come to the world again.
Christian Science treatment, given me some time ago, was a great help to me in my affliction.
I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me.
Since my own healing, three years ago, when I gained uplifted views of the world and of mankind, I have not had to ask help from a practitioner except on two occasions, one of which was at the birth of my son.
It is with a heart full of thankfulness to God for the blessings received in Christian Science that I give this testimony.
Over three years have elapsed since I became interested in Christian Science, and I send in my testimony with a grateful heart for all that it has done and is still doing for me, hoping that many may thereby be led to investigate this great teaching and discern that it is the truth.
I feel it a duty which I owe to Christian Science to testify to my healing in the case of a kidney disease declared incurable by the best physicians.
I have for some time felt that I should express my gratitude for the benefits received from Christian Science.
It is with a feeling of deep gratitude to Mrs.
Whenever the question of Christian Science treatment for children is agitated, I feel that it is my privilege to state a few facts from the experience of one mother, and the little daughter eight years old, who has never known anything but Christian Science treatment for bodily ills.
Having suffered for several days from an attack of stomach trouble, during which the simplest kind of food and even breathing caused great distress, I turned to the Lesson-Sermon, hoping to find some word that would bring relief.
About four years ago I was troubled with an obstinate skin disease, having up to that time suffered for a period of fifteen years, during which I had consulted several physicians without obtaining any relief.
It gives me great pleasure to testify to the following facts, and if this testimony is of benefit to others it will be an even greater pleasure.
IT
was well said, John Young, And history hath approved thy sturdy tongue.
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THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXT-BOOK, "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES.
