January 1, 1910
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Vigorous recommendations for changes in the present law regulating transportation companies are contained in the twenty-third annual report of the interstate commerce commission, just transmitted to Congress.
Walking
down the street the other day, I found myself suddenly stopping short in the path.
Beyond
the immunity from physical disease which Christian Science confers, there is another aspect which raises it to a much higher point of importance in the benefits it brings to mankind, and that is in its unfolding to us the possibility, nay the duty, of being happy ourselves and of bringing happiness to others.
Christian Scientists
are not primarily working to build up a large following with churches and the things which go therewith.
Let me first say, in passing, that there is nothing whatever that can justly be called curious in the faith of Christian Science.
Formulas are not used by genuine Christian Scientists, and there is a by-law in The Mother Church Manual which prohibits the use of formulas.
The lowly Nazarene is and must ever continue to be our example—our Wayshower.
When one feels that his hand is gripped by the omnipotent hand, he knows that no harm can come to him from any finite source.
The world today is exercised throughout on tuberculosis.
Your last Sunday's editorial on the recent incident in New York, while exceptionally fair in its review of the case, seems to entertain a pessimistic view of the future of the Christian Science church as an organization.
In a late issue of the Examiner there appeared an article by Henry Smith Williams, LL.
Christian Science teaches the recognition of the need of practically and effectually coping with sin, sickness, and death, the disturbers of the peace and harmony of mankind.
For the best good of the Cause of Christian Science, Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Seattle, Wash.
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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.
The sentiment involved in Jacob's undertaking, and the hopes that must have filled his heart, may have given interpretation as well as form to his wondrous dream, but whatever else the vision may have signified, it must have spoken to him as to us of the possibility of ascension, and indicated the way thereto; namely, by taking the successive steps of sincere and honest effort, by the progressive escape from a "low-vaulted past" through the attainment of a higher, more heavenly sense.
It
is an interesting fact that the more grossly material mortals are, the fainter is their concept of moral obligation, while with an advance in spirituality this obligation takes definite form as statutes which have their root in a divine necessity.
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The Christian Science Monitor of January 1, 1910, will contain a complete index of the important events of 1909 as noted in the Monitor, and an index of the Christian Science articles appearing on the Home Forum pages during the past year.
I feel that the time has come when I am able to give my testimony to the truth and healing power of Christian Science.
The fact has been brought very forcibly to my mind that, thanks to Christian Science and its application to my needs, ten years have been allowed me for repentance and good works.
I would like to relate how I became interested in Christian Science.
I was brought up to read the Bible and to search it for spiritual guidance.
I am deeply grateful for Christian Science, and for its text-book.
For a number of years I suffered very great pain and inconvenience with my feet.
During November, 1908, I was afflicted with a severe and painful throat trouble, which affected my voice so that I was unable to speak above a whisper.
It is with a grateful heart that I tell how I was healed through Christian Science.
Words can never express the gratitude I owe to Christian Science.
About nine years ago I was healed in Christian Science of what the physician pronounced organic heart trouble and a chronic stomach disorder.
Let me but live my life from year to year,With forward face and unreluctant soul, Not hastening to, nor turning from, the goal;Not mourning for the things that disappearIn the dim past, nor holding back in fear From what the future veils, but with a whole And happy heart that pays its tollTo youth and age, and travels on with cheer.
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The
Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
