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.
The
most important reforms that have marked the history of the human race have always had their inception in individual recognition of and tenacious adherence to right, to Principle.
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.
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.
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.
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.
with contributions from Clara B. MacMillan, The Board of Directors, Mary Baker Eddy, Agnata F. Butler, Eleanor M. Searle, Pattie Egan, Annie Charles Smith, Eveline M. Field, P. Ramsay Laird, Ellen L. Percy, L. E. Spann, Irene Talbot, Katharine M. Tuckerman
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.
Millie Morton Morgan
with contributions from Robert W. Morgan
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.
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.
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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with contributions from Clara B. MacMillan, The Board of Directors, Mary Baker Eddy, Agnata F. Butler, Eleanor M. Searle, Pattie Egan, Annie Charles Smith, Eveline M. Field, P. Ramsay Laird, Ellen L. Percy, L. E. Spann, Irene Talbot, Katharine M. Tuckerman