May 8, 1909
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Two hundred and twenty-six commercial organizations, representing a membership of several hundred thousand merchants, manufacturers, and business men of various lines throughout the country, have joined in a movement to stop the present tariff agitation and provide for a board of experts to study the whole question and revise the schedules in the light of their researches.
Many
who seek for healing in Christian Science are looking for this harmony to be manifested according to their present sense of what constitutes health.
A Christian Science
testimony meeting is for the purpose of making known to a suffering world that our redeemer still lives, and that today, as in the days of primitive Christianity, people are being healed of all manner of disease and reclaimed from all forms of sin.
In
the seventh book of Plato's "Republic" there is a dissertation on education and a description of the philosopher or teacher, which is very suggestive of the unreality of the world of material sense.
The
wisdom of this world, so Paul once said,Is foolishness with God! And still men poreO'er lettered Dead Sea fruit and sigh the moreFor something lacking in the volumes read;There's a heart-hunger that demandeth bread!There is a thirsting for the perfect law;Yet vainly searching man tries many a door,Only to turn away uncomforted.
We claim neither authority nor ability to determine the controversy between the orthodox churches and Christian Science on the merits of the case.
Christian Science depends for its healing entirely upon the realization of God as the divine Principle or Mind of all that is or that has reality, and it is through this understanding of the divine Mind as a fixed Principle, or the operation of law, not in a miraculous but in a divinely natural way, that Christian Scientists are enabled to heal not merely nervous or functional diseases, but organic and structural ills also, and in ever-increasing numbers.
Our critic is mistaken in his statement that Christian Scientists "place Science and Health above the Bible.
It is to be regretted that some members of the medical profession should allow themselves to believe that any Christian system which aims at—and accomplishes—the lessening of disease in this country, is an enemy.
It is not pleasant to think that one professing to be a follower of the Master would wilfully distort and misrepresent the teachings of other professing Christians.
Christian Science teaches that pain is a mental effect, and in doing this it follows the long line of idealist thinkers, who have upheld the theory stated by Huxley in the words that "nothing exists beyond the facts of consciousness and the substance of mind.
In these tolerant days with so many varying religious beliefs, it is not an easy matter in any progressive state to get a law on the statute-books that seems in any way to trench on any of them.
A discovery cannot be considered apart from the discoverer, but Mrs.
The suggestion conveyed is that Christian Scientists are unsympathetic with those who suffer, and that they are fanatical and dogmatic in preaching the doctrine of Christian Science to others, and arbitrary in insisting upon its practice by those around them.
Christian Science is founded on the understanding of Truth, and teaches strict adherence to the spirit of the Mosaic Decalogue and to the teachings of Jesus.
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The next admission of candidates to membership in The Mother Church will be June 4, 1909.
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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.
In
view of complaints from the Field, because of alleged misrepresentations by persons offering Bibles and other books for sale which they claim have been endorsed by me, it is due the Field to state that I recommend nothing but what is published or sold by The Christian Science Publishing Society.
Among
the incidents of "going to church," the meeting of our friends is perhaps one of the pleasantest, and a quiet interchange of greetings with those who like ourselves have much for which to render thanks to God, is a privilege to which no reasonable person could object.
In
reading the 21st chapter of Revelation, we are reminded that many nations have had a "holy city," around which centered their patriotism, their chivalry, and, alas, in some instances their superstition and intolerance.
The
command, "Thou shalt not kill," is all-inclusive, unequivocal, and uncompromising.
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An audience that completely filled First Church of Christ, Scientist, last evening [Feb.
It is a number of years since I got my first news of Christian Science from a jest on the subject in a daily paper.
Over a year ago, while crossing a bad place in a country road, I was thrown from a heavy coal wagon, and one wheel passed over my right arm, injuring it terribly.
I should like to tell how grateful I am to God, and to Mrs.
For some time I have felt it a duty to express my gratitude for Christian Science and for the many benefits which I have received thereby.
It has been my desire for a long time to express through the Sentinel my gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me, with the hope that it may encourage some one who reads these lines to seek God through the study of Christian Science, and find in divine Truth his all.
I want to give my testimony to the beautiful demonstration that was made through Christian Science over a fall which I had about two years ago.
It is with love and much gratitude to God, and to our dear Leader, that I give this testimony of physical healing, which occurred in August of 1906.
I, too, wish to give thanks for all the blessings which we have received in Christian Science.
After reading other people's testimonies in the Sentinel, I feel I ought to tell what Christian Science has done for me.
I am indeed thankful for the many blessings which have come to me from the realization of the truth that Christian Science unfolds to us.
I take this opportunity to express my gratitude for the benefits received in Christian Science.
About eight years ago, I was healed in Christian Science of rheumatic trouble.
It is with deep gratitude to God, and to Mrs.
I must return thanks to God, divine Love, for His great mercies to me in leading me from darkness to the light, and for uncovering the revelation through our noble Leader, Mrs.
With a deep sense of joy and gratitude to the Cause of Christian Science, I offer the following testimony of healing.
I am glad to have this opportunity to acknowledge the help I received through Christian Science.
It is now over four years since I turned to Christian Science for physical aid, after several years of suffering which could not be cured by medicine.
The love of Christ constrains me to give this testimony of healing through the goodness of God as made known in Christian Science.
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the greatest art in life is to have as many of them as possible.
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The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
