The secretary-treasurer of the Postal Progress League says: "Under the legislation proposed by the league the posting of two four-pound parcels a year by the average of our 80,000,000 population would give the post-office an income of over $50,000,000 from its general merchandise traffic alone.
The
belief that life and intelligence are material, moving in limited personal orbits, and that, therefore, men can live and act independently of God, is the supreme folly of mortals.
When
in every phase of human experience men learn to practise the command of the Saviour, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them," then will the earth "be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
Perhaps
the most difficult task which confronts one who is trying to be a Christian Scientist, is that of giving testimony at the Wednesday evening meetings.
Real
success, which can be won only through the practice of honesty, sincerity, perseverance, and courage, is the guerdon that the golden rule ensures, when practically carried out as the maxim of business and social life.
The miracles recorded in the New Testament seem to have been as great a source of wonder to the Jews as the testimonies of Christian Science healing, cited by our critic, are to the observers of the present day.
From
time to time Christian Scientists have been charged by critics of this denomination with being double-minded; that is, it is claimed that in their statements concerning themselves and their affairs, they make certain mental reservations in order that these statements shall coincide with an individual concept of what they term "absolute" Christian Science, rather than with the phenomena of sense perception with which they are dealing.
The
average Christian believer has no difficulty in recognizing that there can be no element of evil in that infinite good which men call God, though he often fails to perceive that the manifestation of Spirit with the asserted power of matter is equally incongruous and impossible under any divine order.
In
studying the commandments it is always well to remember the introductory statement, "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 Chauncey J. Guthrie, Alice E. Guthrie, Mary Baker Eddy, Kate Davidson Kimball, Frederick Dixon, Mary Beecher Longyear, Annie E. Cardwell, Diana Jackson, Burton B. Turner, Mary E. Cheatham, Charles F. Kraft
H. Van Leeuwen
with contributions from Aimee E. Titus
In the hope that this expression of my hearfelt gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me may benefit others, I will say that for more than forty years I had been troubled with heart disease, so that I never went away from home without carrying a bottle of medicine along, and many times I thought that my last moment had come.
Some fourteen years ago, in removing a small piece of steel which had lodged in one of my eyes, the physician discovered that my eyelids were affected with a disease which required attention.
Trusting this brief testimony may help some poor sufferer to turn to the "great Physician" and learn to live aright, I cheerfully and gratefully acknowledge the all-power of God.
Although it is now almost nine years since I began the study of Christian Science, I have never before given a written testimony to the power of Truth.
I did not take up the study of Christian Science for the physical healing—it attracted me as a religion, because of its radical difference from the belief in which I had been reared; although I had been a church-member for nearly twenty years.
William Lazenby
with contributions from Ellen Lazenby, Stella E. Saxton
Having received so much benefit and encouragement from the testimonies published in the Sentinel, this is sent in the hope that it may serve the same purpose.
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with contributions from Chauncey J. Guthrie, Alice E. Guthrie, Mary Baker Eddy, Kate Davidson Kimball, Frederick Dixon, Mary Beecher Longyear, Annie E. Cardwell, Diana Jackson, Burton B. Turner, Mary E. Cheatham, Charles F. Kraft