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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
with contributions from Mary Baker Eddy, E.M. Ramsay, Alice Gray, New York Christian Science Institute, Nellie Neall Trout, Charles M. Howe, Richard P. Verrall, Ida Ehrich, Willard S. Mattox, Annie V. C. Dodgshun, Minnie Smithson Palmer, Frances M. Brown, Sara Susman, Rose L. Dubois, Le Roy B. Cramer, Gottfred Berg, Rosalie Roberts, Alice B. Taber
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.
Jane L. Vilas
with contributions from William F. Marrs, Emily Margaret Marrs
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.
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.
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.
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.
Irvine McCauley
with contributions from Fred Klopping
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.
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.
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with contributions from Mary Baker Eddy, E.M. Ramsay, Alice Gray, New York Christian Science Institute, Nellie Neall Trout, Charles M. Howe, Richard P. Verrall, Ida Ehrich, Willard S. Mattox, Annie V. C. Dodgshun, Minnie Smithson Palmer, Frances M. Brown, Sara Susman, Rose L. Dubois, Le Roy B. Cramer, Gottfred Berg, Rosalie Roberts, Alice B. Taber