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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
with contributions from Frederick Dixon, Chas. M. Howe, Rena Hubbell, Stokes Anthony Bennett, Ralph R. Hibben, M. W. Clark, Annie T. Boyd, Minnie B. Evans, Alice M. Brown, Florence G. Hall
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 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.
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with contributions from Frederick Dixon, Chas. M. Howe, Rena Hubbell, Stokes Anthony Bennett, Ralph R. Hibben, M. W. Clark, Annie T. Boyd, Minnie B. Evans, Alice M. Brown, Florence G. Hall