A permanent international court of arbitral justice and the limitation of armaments, two subjects left undisposed of by the second Hague conference, are to be taken up by two commissions, if a concurrent resolution, introduced by Representative Bartholdt of Missouri, is enacted into law.
The
phrase "eternal life" has commonly been associated with a future state of existence, or a continuation beyond the grave of existence begun in the flesh.
The
mastery of a situation is gained through a true sense of the values involved, and that wisdom which is "the principal thing," which is removed from all perplexity and doubt and which gives poise of mind and certainty of action, is this understanding of values.
Of
late, many churches have been awakening to the realization that, as the cultivation and upbuilding of the spiritual nature is the daily need of every individual, the church, whose mission it is to minister to this need, should provide for daily moral and spiritual guidance and help, and not confine its ministrations to the Sabbath.
The
doctrine of eternal damnation, though fast disappearing from theological creeds, still remains in human thought as an element of cruelty which needs the correcting influence of scientific Christianity.
With
thought attuned unto the perfect Mind,My heaven within my consciousness I find;There hope and health and happiness abide,To Christlike guests the portal opens wide.
In the course of an article in a recent issue of the Evening Mail, "some of the best-known clergymen and physicians in America" are reported as expressing a fervent, disinterested, and dispassionate desire to rescue the unsuspecting public from the rapidly increasing inroads of Christian Science.
The teachings of the Master are what Christian Science upholds and practises, but these teachings do not merely substitute the word "spirit" for "matter;" they do, however, give the disciple or student a scientific reason for understanding and demonstrating that "it is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing," and that, as Mrs.
Christian Scientists rejoice in every good deed, and under no circumstances do they malign or belittle the religious faith of another sect, neither do they seek to interfere with the method of any benevolent sect or society.
In
studying the Ten Commandments, as set forth in the twentieth chapter of Exodus, we are given at the start the reason why we should acknowledge the divine authority which demands our obedience, "I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
with contributions from Willard S. Mattox, C. B. Hadden, James R. Miller, Mattie H. DuBois, H. M. Spence, Jannett Philip, M. V. Cooley, T. Talbot, Grace Thoburn, Harriette Stent Clark, Lulu A. Miller, Mary Blanche Winser, Pauline N. Bolles, Board of Trustees
For eight years I had been under the care of specialists for throat and lung disease; had spent one winter South and had been told that I could not endure another winter in this climate.
I was under Christian influence from childhood, and united with an orthodox church when a young woman, becoming an earnest worker in the Sabbath School and a religious society.
Having received so much help and encouragement from the testimonies of others, as to what Christian Science has done for them, I thought my experience with it might perhaps help some one else.
I have been helped and encouraged so many times by the testimonies given in this periodicals, that I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science and for the Sentinel, which I enjoy very much each week.
I wish to express my gratitude for the innumberable blessings which I have received, and am receiving daily and hourly, through the application of Christian Science.
In the summer of 1908 I was taken ill with a severe attack of throat disease, and as it did not yield readily, we asked a Christian Science practitioner for help.
The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
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with contributions from Willard S. Mattox, C. B. Hadden, James R. Miller, Mattie H. DuBois, H. M. Spence, Jannett Philip, M. V. Cooley, T. Talbot, Grace Thoburn, Harriette Stent Clark, Lulu A. Miller, Mary Blanche Winser, Pauline N. Bolles, Board of Trustees