The sixth annual convention of the national rivers and harbors congress, the largest assemblage of representative men interested in the development of waterways ever held in this country, took place in Washington last week.
Among
the mural decorations in the Congressional Library at Washington there is an epigram by the German mystic, Novalis, who held that religion without a church was impossible, which reads, "There is but one temple in the universe, and that temple is the body of man.
While
silently pondering the psalmist's words, "Be still, and know that I am God," which become more beautiful through the spiritual understanding gained from the study of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
In
thinking over the spurious laws by which we have believed ourselves to be governed, one is surprised to see how much is conceded to one's surroundings, how many times they are made the scapegoat for the troubles, difficulties, tastes, and habits of the human family.
Where "Observer" refers to Christ in speaking of the present means of checking diphtheria, we are once more forced to conclude that, in his opinion, if Christ were living today, he would find it wholly unnecessary to heal the sick, as he would find the present means of cure and prevention so wonderful and so effective in keeping well the entire population, that he would not only fail to find any sick people, but would have to acknowledge that the present scientific method of cure and prevention had him bested in anything he could offer in the way of relief for disease and suffering.
Our critic's lecture, like his book, is full of misunderstanding; not all his own, but the errors of many ill-advised critics before him, who like himself have never demonstrated Christian Science.
For centuries Christendom has read that often repeated saying of Jesus Christ to the woman of Samaria, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth," and has gone on its way, insisting that God made the material universe, without apparently heeding the confusion to which this leads.
Will
those beloved students whose growth is taking in the Ten Commandments and scaling the steep ascent of Christ's Sermon in the Mount, accept profound thanks for their swift messages of rejoicing over the Twentieth Century Church Manual?
Certain
occasions, considered collectively, individually, and observed properly, tend to give the activity of man infinite scope; but mere merry making or needless gift giving is not that wherein human capacities find the most appropriate and proper exercise.
with contributions from Stokes Anthony Bennett, Mary Baker Eddy, Charles B. Jamieson, M. Louise Baum, M. D. Capps, Emma Kinney, Alfred E. Grindrod, Committee for the meeting, Margaret Beecher White
When I was about ten years of age I was severely injured from jumping off a spring-board while in swimming, and for over twenty years I suffered greatly from pain in the back, so that it was almost impossible for me to sit for five minutes in one position.
In grateful acknowledgment of benefits received in Christian Science, I wish to give my testimony, hoping it may be the means of helping others as I so often have been helped.
I am very thankful to God for all that I have learned through Christian Science, and for the blessings it has brought me, and it is with great joy that I speak of my experiences.
This testimony comes from the depths of a mother's heart, who wishes to testify to the healing power of Christian Science, and tell what it has done for her children.
I do not hesitate to testify to the fact that over two years ago I was healed within a short time of a severe abdominal trouble of long standing, and that I have not felt any such trouble since.
During the summer of 1906 I had occasion to call a Christian Science practitioner to treat our little son, as he was cutting teeth and I had some fear of the medical belief respecting the "second summer.
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with contributions from Stokes Anthony Bennett, Mary Baker Eddy, Charles B. Jamieson, M. Louise Baum, M. D. Capps, Emma Kinney, Alfred E. Grindrod, Committee for the meeting, Margaret Beecher White