May 15, 1909
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The New York Legislature has passed an act broadening the conditions under which the public service commission may grant franchises for rapid transit lines.
A subtle
argument which often presents itself to the Christian Scientist is to the effect that it is best not to resist certain phases of evil for fear of resorting to human will-power.
Assuming
that a Christian Scientist has reached the point where he daily strives after reformation and complete redemption from sin, granted that he is willing to make every sacrifice for holiness, and to subordinate every lesser desire to the supreme one of working out his salvation, should this warfare seem to be grievous and discouraging?
The
expressions of gratitude so frequently heard at our testimonial meetings are perhaps, for outsiders, the most unusual part of the Christian Science services.
Perhaps
no part of the message of Christian Science is more misunderstood than is its teaching concerning the unreality of evil.
We
have been accustomed to regard the pathetic resignation of the human will to the divine which Jesus expressed in the garden of Gethsemane, as a phase of thought most difficult to enter into, but upon giving the matter serious consideration, we find this, like many of our other preconceived ideas, to be entirely false concept of the prayer, that instead of being the most exacting, it is really the easiest and most natural petition to offer.
We are not authorized to speak for Christian Science.
Christian Science teaches that the veil of illusion which to mortal sense seems to obscure God and His perfect creation has been woven by ignorance, materiality, and sinfulness, and will be removed and is being removed by the spiritual appearing of Christ.
Christian Science is not a fad; it is not chance.
In a review, under the heading "A Medieval Journey to Jerusalem," in your issue of late date, there is a statement of the Christian Science teaching with respect to evil which is so crude as to be positively misleading.
It may be that men ought to flock to the churches to hear weekly expositions of abstract Christian doctrine, but as a matter of fact they won't.
Our critic states that Christian Science is illogical.
In his argument the clerical critic says, "At length Christian Science came.
It is a poor form of reasoning to attack one's belief and characterize it as "blasphemous," "idiotic," "hysterical," and an insult to the intelligence of reasoning people, because that peculiar form may not agree with ours.
The gentleman does not state whether he accepts Mrs.
Our critic's attempt to explain why so many people have espoused Christian Science evokes a smile when one knows the class of men and women who have been attracted to it.
The Mind referred to in Christian Science is not the finite human mind which is supposed to have its abiding-place in the brain of mortal man, but the infinite, divine Mind—that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus.
Christian Science declares that the self which Jesus urged his followers to deny was the material self, the "old man" referred to by Paul.
It is well known that Christian Science is aiding in the purification of the world from evil.
In a late issue of the Herald a critic thinks Christian Science is a refuge for the intellectually lazy.
The Christian Science society of Ontario received its articles of incorporation, under the laws of the state of California, on March 8, and thereby takes its place among the local religious bodies, on precisely the same footing as the others.
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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.
We
are pleased to announce that the fund for the enlarging of the publishing house, to meet the immediate requirements of The Christian Science Monitor, has been subscribed.
When
the contemplated publication of The Christian Science Monitor was announced in the Sentinel last October, it was promised for the paper that its mission would be "to publish the real news of the world in a clean, wholesome manner;" and a proof that this promise has been kept is the large number of letters received at this office which express commendation of the Monitor as a clean newspaper.
There
has ever been a feeling, no less universal than instinctive, that being is life, and the normality as well as the ideality of death has been denied in every impulse and assertion of that desire for immortality, the defeat of death, which has moved men from the beginning.
In
reading the Old Testament, one cannot help being impressed by the emphasis laid upon the necessity for obedience to divine law, and no less upon the need of understanding it.
After years of faithful research among the physical sciences and philosophies, and an extended study of both eastern and western religions, I came to the conclusion that there was undoubtedly a God somewhere; but since immutability could not be manifested through mutable phenomena, we could have no possible means of knowing or understanding Him, and I therefore abandoned my search.
It is with the hope that I may help some one who is laboring under a condition similar to mine, that I send my testimony to the Sentinel.
With gratitude I give my testimony, trusting that it may be helpful to others.
I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to God for what Christian Science has done for me.
I wish to express my gratitude for the healing that has come to me though Christian Science.
One evening while out walking, I accidentally fell, and upon rising I found that one ankle was severely injured.
I am unable to express in words the blessing which this wonderful truth has brought me.
I am glad to testify to the help received from Christian Science.
Every testimony in the Sentinel is helpful to me, and for this help I feel very grateful.
Very gratefully do I give this testimony, which is a proof of the truth of Christian Science as taught in the Bible and made plain in the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
About three years ago, while using gasoline, I was almost overcome with the fumes.
With the hope that some one whose release from bondage is seemingly slow, may be encouraged by reading my experience, it is here given somewhat in detail.
A medical doctor claimed that my eyes were in a very serious condition.
Although for twelve years the beautiful teachings of Christian Science have been healing, purifying, and uplifting my consciousness from material modes of living and thinking, the past year has been so varied in experience, so rich in demonstration, so many victories have been won, that to express my gratitude through our periodicals is the least I can do.
I give this testimony with a feeling of deep gratitude for all that has come to me through Christian Science.
For several years I had been in very poor health.
Having been benefited many times through Christian Science I wish to add my testimony.
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The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
