Seven of the members of the national waterways commission, a commission authorized by Congress to investigate the waterways of Europe and Canada as well as those of the United States, for the purpose of making recommendations for the improvement of the rivers, harbors, and canals of our own country, have sailed from New York on a ten-week investigation and examination of the waterways of Europe.
The
very remarkable but quiet fidelity and healing work of Philip the evangelist have been somewhat overshadowed by the more brilliant records of the earlier disciples, and one incident of his career was so in advance of the times that the materialism of the age has ignored or misunderstood it.
It
is curious to notice that in the Greek New Testament there are no less than sixteen different Greek verbs which are translated in our Authorized Version by the single word "declare.
While
dwelling upon the innumerable blessings and wonders of Christian Science, the writer has frequently been reminded of the words, "I do set my bow in the cloud,"—a "token" of that covenant which was to be "for perpetual generations.
With
me 'twas evening in a desert place,And hungry thoughts in a great multitudeQuestioned earnestly each his neighbor's face,—If they should not depart by slow foot-paceInto some village to buy needful food.
Starting from the premises, disclosed by Scripture and conceded by Christians generally, that God is good, that He is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, that He is Life and Truth and Love, Christian Science establishes its position and proves its teaching by the infallible process of deduction.
Christian Science is a revival of primitive Christianity, and its healings are today as in Jesus' day the direct result of the impartation to erring human minds of the wholesome, uplifting, vivifying influence of divine Truth and Love, which heals physically by uplifting spiritually.
The
naval narratives of the world teem with references to England's early seamen, Drake, Hawkins, and their kin, not only because of their fearlessness, their far-seeking, venturesome spirit, but because of the cleverness with which they handled their little caravels.
with contributions from Elizabeth Earl Jones, Annie C. Bridgers, Anne Le Baron Drumm, Delia Howe, Marie Chalmers Ford, Paul Arthur Harsch, Annie G. Nehls, Florence Reinhart, Minnie A. Scott, Carl S. Sather, Roberta V. Sanner, B. C. Talbot, Jane C. Van Hoesen
Being encouraged by the many proofs of divine Love I have received, and strengthened by a firm trust in God, from whom emanates all good, all being, I give the following testimony.
One of our Lesson-Sermons brought so forcibly to me the fact that God's individual ideas are, by loving decree of infinite, eternal wisdom, inseparably associated with their fruits, that I have since felt not only an awakened desire to manifest more of the "fruit of the Spirit," as defined by Paul, but the paramount necessity of so doing away with the "fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" as to perceive and bring forth those fruits which are the product solely of the "pure thought emanating from divine Mind".
Mabel A. Stevenson
with contributions from W. S. Neece
It is with deep gratitude that I wish to tell of the blessings which Christian Science has given me, though words cannot express the peace it has brought into my life.
Having tried several of the best physicians in this city, and also having them send to New York for remedies which they said had never been known to fail, I had finally to give up and accept Christian Science treatment, which I had several times been advised to try.
From my earliest remembrance I was a sufferer from nervous affection of the digestive system, and other ailments which were not reached through materia medica.
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with contributions from Elizabeth Earl Jones, Annie C. Bridgers, Anne Le Baron Drumm, Delia Howe, Marie Chalmers Ford, Paul Arthur Harsch, Annie G. Nehls, Florence Reinhart, Minnie A. Scott, Carl S. Sather, Roberta V. Sanner, B. C. Talbot, Jane C. Van Hoesen