November 20, 1909
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That the organized conservation movement is preparing for a big national effort to obtain, at the coming session of Congress, revision of the national laws under which coal lands and water-powers are administered, is made apparent by the issuance of a statement by Dr.
The
season of the year returned when, in accordance with the reverent custom established by our forefathers, the people of the United States are wont to meet in their usual places of worship on a day of thanksgiving appointed by the civil magistrate to return thanks to God for the great mercies and benefits which they enjoyed.
All
Christians agree that Jesus of Nazareth laid the foundations of the Christian religion.
The
word "thankful" is defined as: "Deeply sensible of kindness received and disposed to acknowledge it; grateful; as, a thankful spirit.
We
read in the first epistle of John that "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all;" and in Genesis, that "God created man in his own image.
It
was two hundred and eighty-eight years ago that a band of people, small in number but large in faith and in loyal devotion to right, came together for a public thanksgiving to God for their first scanty harvest, wrested from nature by untold toil, privation, and self-sacrifice, in the wilderness of a strange land.
In
the book of Daniel we read: "I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me.
Mortals
are so accustomed to insist that all things shall come to them only through the inspection office of physical sense, there receiving its stamp of approval or condemnation and being consigned to a mission of joy or sorrow as the officer of human opinion may dictate, that even gratitude for that which arouses us from a sense of materiality needs to be learned in Christian Science.
[We publish with great pleasure the following terse and convincing article by Mr.
Christian Science strongly opposes every effort to influence another mentally against his highest good, whether this is done under the name of hypnotism, mesmerism, animal magnetism, or any other name, or under no name at all.
Christian Scientists believe that all reasonable and just things are possible to him who has unbounded faith in God.
That the Christian Science church is supplying a need that has existed from the beginning of world is proved by its marvelous grwoth in the last decade.
"Christian Science has given me one definite advantage, at any rate," said the woman who had tried it.
We do not all agree with the beliefs of Christian Science, but all of us who are in harmany with the spirit of American institutions are going to accord adherents of the cult the liberty of conscience.
It will be helpful to remember that Christian Science is not a new ism or religion, but is the religion of the Bible.
The helpful doctrines of Christian Science are as old as the Bible, for this religion is founded upon the Bible, which is accepted as its final authority.
It is patent to any earnest student of the fundamental truths of Christian Science that our clerical critic has not even a rudimentary understanding of its meaning, that his denunciations are founded upon a material basis, that he argues and declaims from a material standpoint alone, that he recognizes only the material body of Jesus.
Christian Scientists plant themselves unreservedly on the declaration of Jesus that "the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth," and the definition of God as above given is spiritual.
The "Comforter," as defined by Jesus, is not a person, but the "Spirit of truth," verifying the Master's teaching by repeating his works.
Just as the sun rose over the top of the mountains to the east of San Diego this morning [Oct.
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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.
As we study the New Testament in the light of Christian Science, we are deeply impressed by the many evidences of a new order of things which finds expression in the Gospels and epistles, spiritual law and order displacing belief in a material order, on the part of those who had awakened to the truth of being.
Once
upon a time there was a small boy who, being given a sugar-plum, proceeded to swallow it without indicating in any way his appreciation of the kindness of the giver; whereupon the latter said, "Well, aren't you thankful for it?
At this Thanksgiving time, when thought is going out in gratitude for the many blessings received, may I, too, give thanks for this great truth that has come into my life, making the desert to blossom and bring forth fruit, refreshing the parched ground, and causing the springs of life to burst forth anew.
About four years ago I first heard of Christian Science, and was very glad to find that the teachings of Jesus do still relate to us.
It is with a heart full of gratitude that I send this testimony to tell what blessings I have received through Christian Science.
I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science; for what it has done and is doing for me every day.
It is with the deepest gratitude that I look back on nearly three years of health and harmony, brought to me through the healing of several chronic illnesses from which I had been a sufferer.
This testimonial does not tell half the blessings received in Christian Science, but I feel that we should acknowledge the divine goodness when we have been so wonderfully blessed.
In January, 1908, about two months after I became interested in Christian Science, I was driving home one night, when the carriage door was slammed upon my finger, injuring it very severely.
Christian Science has indeed been a great help and comfort to me.
While still confronted with some problems that seem unsolved, it is a privilege to bear grateful testimony for Christian Science healing.
It is now ten years since I first heard of Christian Science I was then a church-member, but there was a need in my life which my church did not fill.
From the many wonderful instances of healing in our family in the past fifteen years it would be difficult for me to cite any particular one as being the most remarkable, yet I will narrate the following experience.
Words can never express the gratitude I feel for Christian Science; I know it is the truth that makes us free.
I wish to testify to what Christian Science has done for me.
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The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
