School yards in England are generally larger than in the United State, and fascinating school games, carefully supervised, shared by all, are made an educational factor.
A CERTAIN
Christian Science church recently decided to build a much needed room for the Sunday School, and at a meeting of its members which had been called to discuss the matter, money was freely given and pledges made for that purpose.
THE
first Christian Science meeting which I ever attended was a Wednesday evening meeting, held in a Jewish temple in Chicago, and that one fact was impressive of itself.
THE
writer recently listened to an address by an eminent clergyman who, after referring to Wordsworth's ode on "Intimations of Immortality," declared that intimations are all we have,—that we possess no positive proof of immortality.
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the true Christian Scientist seeing is acting,—one is identical with the other,—and thereby mankind may come to understand the practical nature of Christian Science.
PILGRIM,
press on: the path seems dark, And stones of mortal sense have cut our feet, But gentle breezes waft a perfume sweet, And, lo, I hear the singing of a lark!
Because Christian Science denies that there is any real entity or substance outside of Spirit and spiritual existence, it should not be assumed that it denies man's existence.
The healing agency employed in Christian Science is a spiritual understanding of the allness of God and the consequent realization of the unreality of all that is unlike Him.
If Christian Science had no more merit than the person representing himself as a doctor in your issue of the 15th professes to believe, you would not be asked to publish attacks upon it, for it would have ceased to attract public attention long ago.
Christian Science is not asking humanity to accept anything which it cannot demonstrate for itself, and consquently, more than any religion since the days of Paul, it relies on the great saying of the apostle, "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
One mistakes the teaching of Christian Science who calculates that its modus operandi is a mere wordy denial of sin and disease, and an affirmation of health and life.
In saying that "Christian Science can never expect to have the same treatment accorded it as can be to the ordinary Christian churches of other denominations," I think our critic is mistaken.
My
heart is thine, fade not away, O beautiful September day! Thy calm is mine—Love's message clear Comes gently to my list'ning ear; It heals all grief and soothes all fear.
THE
world is familiar with the fact that in studying a given force or influence the phenomena which have characterized a known period of its history are naturally looked for in any as yet unknown period, and this so-called law of the maintenance of type is sure to determine the expectation of all who are investigating the subject.
The rapid growth of the Christian Science movement makes it expedient that another member of the board of lectureship should reside permanently in Europe, and through the Directors of The Mother Church arrangements to that effect have been consummated with Bicknell Young.
with contributions from Jettora W. Hyde, Elliot Howard Gilkey, Edward A. Merritt, William C. Skinner, Clara C. Skinner, Sue H. Mims, Eurith F. Fetty, Charles B. Jamieson, The members of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, M. Gertrude Yates
The clerk of any Christian Science church will confer a favor if he will send the Editorial Department a report of any transaction or undertaking pertaining to the church, which may prove of interest to the Field.
How thankful I am to God for healing my diseases and for this wonderful truth as revealed to us through our text–book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
In view of the possibility that some one who reads the Sentinel may still doubt that "with God nothing shall be impossible," I take this opportunity to speak a word of encouragement to those who seemingly cannot realize God's power to heal.
with contributions from Jettora W. Hyde, Elliot Howard Gilkey, Edward A. Merritt, William C. Skinner, Clara C. Skinner, Sue H. Mims, Eurith F. Fetty, Charles B. Jamieson, The members of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, M. Gertrude Yates