March 27, 1909
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President Taft, having learned from the experience of his many official trips thatfirst-hand information is the best, will expect his cabinet officers to make frequent tours of inspection, and in accordance with this view Secretary of War Dickinson will make an early visit to the Isthmus of Panama to inspect the canal, while Secretary of the Interior Ballinger will go to Alaska to investigate conditions in that territory, particularly in regard to public lands.
What
is of most worth to the world, things or thoughts, material possessions or spiritually developed men?
The
earnest truth-seeker who approaches Christian Science with open mind, and who has perhaps been healed thereby, looks at times for what he does not find and finds what he is not seeking.
The
valuable precept, "Know thyself," comes to us from the writings of one of the Greek philosophers.
Even
those who declare that matter is real, concede that it is wholly non-intelligent.
To the ordinary mortal thought certain conditions of temperature are regarded as essential to health.
When
our Master was asked by a certain lawyer, "And who is my neighbor?
O icy
wind, from snow-clad mountains blowing,From summits where the winter still holds sway,In the chill freedom of your ebb and flowingIs felt no promise of the coming May.
Through the study of Christian Science we soon learn that the body of itself can do nothing, but, as the wise man said, that as a man "thinketh in his heart, so is he.
We know but little of the source of real power.
Our critic says, "The truth that there is a divine power to alleviate suffering is not original with Christian Science.
Christian Science demands a lively faith, rising, through constant translation into works, into the higher planes of spiritual understanding and knowledge; and while it enforces calm and orderly habits of thought, it induces a mental activity of the highest quality.
Christian Science teaches that the only creator is God, divine Love, eternal Life.
Our friends, the doctors, or at least some of them, are most desirous of forming a trust.
Christian Science is not the offspring of Swedenborg's teaching, as alleged by a critic, and much less can it be said to bear any relationship whatsoever to that of Mesmer.
Today, as of yore, when a man knows the truth he knows God, and in that he becomes the freeman of the Lord.
Christian Science does not teach "the power of mind over matter" in the sense of human will-power being a healer, but it recognizes the power of divine Mind, God, over all His universe.
There can be but one "school of Christian Science.
"Christian Science" must mean the science, or accurate knowledge, of the Christ.
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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.
Recently
there appeared simultaneously in several newspapers in New York and other cities notices of a book which attacks Christian Science, and about which the statement was made that Mrs.
Occasionally
there come to us appeals for advice in regard to the proper course to be pursued by members of churches in which the utmost harmony does not prevail.
Those
who are beginning to look into Christian Science sometimes ask, Who created all the manifestations of disease, the ravenous beasts, reptiles, and sinful mortals, if God did not ?
Thoughtful
and conscientious Christian people not infrequently find themselves at a loss to know how to distinguish between spiritual forces which are of God, and hence always good in nature and effects, and so-called forces which are often found serving the ends of evil.
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The attention of the Field is called to the following new pamphlets listed in this issue: "Christian Science: Its Principle and Method," "Christian Science: The Christianity of Jesus.
In November, 1907, while pursuing my work in New York city, I suffered a complete nervous breakdown.
In 1894 I had an attack of rheumatic trouble which left me very weak, but, being the mother of a large family, I had a great deal of housework to do, and one day in lifting a heavy kettle I seemed to injure my back severely.
That Christian Science gives strength in the midst of weakness, and victory in the midst of seeming defeat, was proven to me last fall, when, our house being geographically about the "storm-center" of a severe fever epidemic, I found myself succumbing to this malady.
Words cannot express the gratitude I feel for what Christian Science has done for me.
I am glad to add my testimony to those of the many who have been healed and blessed by Christian Science.
Twelve years ago I was healed through Christian Science of a serious trouble in one of my eyes, after this eye had been nearly blind for two years.
When I first learned of Christian Science I was a physical wreck.
About two and a half years ago I had a great deal of trouble with my eyes.
I was taken ill in November, 1907, but as I did not think the attack serious I did not call for any help.
I am indeed thankful to God, and to Mrs.
It is with a deep sense of gratitude for Christian Science that I add my testimony to the healing power of Truth.
I have too long delayed in giving a testimony of my gratitude to God for the great work that has been done in my family through Christian Science.
Christian Science found me a physical and mental wreck.
Comfort
me, Lord, that I may beSome comfort to another;That on his darkness I may shedLight for a stumbling brother.
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The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
