December 4, 1909
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The Government has won its suit against the Standard Oil Company and the United States Circuit Court has ordered the corporation dissolved as an illegal corporation.
Jesus
never spoke of the way of salvation as easy for the pilgrim; he pointed out the difficulties and hardships to be encountered and overcome by his disciples in all ages, saying, "The disciple is not above his master.
Our
theme at once suggests a discrimination between the mere letter of the Word and the spiritual teaching therein contained.
In
the parable of the talents the story is told of the man "who called his servants, and delivered unto them his goods," giving "to one five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability.
WHEN
Job was having the argument with his friends, he recognized some of the things that were brought to light as being disagreeably true concerning himself, while many things of which he was accused he could deny with a clear conscience.
In
my experience as a mother, even before coming into Christian Science, I always felt, after one of the rare occasions when I seemed driven to the use of any sort of corporal punishment for the little ones, that I had failed, even though obedience had been attained.
The
storm had passed me, and I layUpon the bosom of Life's ocean, derelict;Far off the thunder echoed, and beyondI heard the sullen roar of angry surfBeating a rock-bound shore; nor hope had IThat ever ray of dawn could penetrate the gloom.
To what cause may be attributed the growing tendency of men to neglect the church?
The optimist who believes that the world is getting better every day and that altruism and brotherly love will yet dominate the commercial, social, and religious life of mankind the world over, must have been rudely shocked when he read in a local paper of St.
In a recent issue of Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger there appeared an article by the Rev.
Jesus did not buy the pardon of the world with his life, and so save the individual sinner from making his own atonement to divine Love; that is to say, from demonstrating his spiritual oneness with the Father, as a child of God.
The corner-stone of the new edifice for First Church of Christ, Scientist, San Diego, Cal.
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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.
Some
young Christian Scientists—as well as some who are old enough to know better—seem to entertain the belief that because God is good, they have nothing to do in shaping their human lives but to sit back and state this fact in a sort of automatic way; or, in other words, they expect to reap a harvest without having done the preliminary planting and watering which are as necessary as the sunshine to produce satisfactory fruitage.
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The price of the new pamphlet "Personal Contagion" and "What Our Leader Says" has been reduced from that given in previous notices, and will be as follows: Single copy 10 cents; the dozen $1.
About nine years ago one of the popular magazines published an article which held Christian Science up to ridicule and gave a distorted statement of its teachings.
With loving gratitude do I testify to what Christian Science has done for me.
In reading of Nicodemus, who came to Jesus to know how to gain eternal life, we find the Master's answer to be, "Ye must be born again.
Having been the recipient of so many blessings from a knowledge of Christian Science, it is my privilege to tell others of the great good which they may obtain from its study.
I want to tell others how great a blessing has come to us through Christian Science.
It is now over five years since we took up the study of Christian Science, and I wish to bear grateful testimony to the healing power of Truth, and to the spiritual quickening which we have received from it.
In the spring of 1908 measles broke out in this town, and about half of the children in the schools were taken ill.
I would like to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me, and it has done much since I took up the study four years ago.
From the time I was a small boy until recently, a period of some ten years, I was subject to attacks of mental depression and overburdening pessimism, supposedly of hereditary origin.
After having been freed, through God's help and the faithful work of a Christian Science practitioner, of severe neuralgic pains which had tortured me for years, I feel impelled to give thanks through these lines.
Since taking up the study of Christian Science, three years ago, I have received so many benefits that I feel it is a duty as well as a pleasure to tell of a few of them in the Sentinel.
I have a great desire to make public at least a small portion of what Christian Science has done for me and mine in the past fourteen years.
When Christian Science found me, ten years ago, I was a great sufferer from throat and stomach affections, also rheumatic gout, which medical doctors had said would cripple me.
I started this year with the assurance that I was on the right road to health and harmony.
I came into Christian Science for the spiritual help which it offered.
I am indeed grateful for what Christian Science has done for me.
Had
truth not dawned—There had been in my heart no little shrineOn which the flame of joy burns ceaselessly.
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The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
