The state investigation of the price of milk in New York city, shows that one well-known company, controlling twenty-eight per cent of the milk trade in the city, credits seventy-five per cent of its twenty million dollars of capital to "trade-marks and good-will.
It
is very desirable that all who join the Church of Christ, Scientist, whether it be The Mother Church or one of its branches, should be thoroughly familiar with the object for which this church was founded, as set forth in the "Historical Sketch" in the Manual namely, "To organize a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing".
The
Scriptures enjoin upon all seekers of righteousness the necessity of confessing their errors and sins; not as an arbitrary formality to be observed as ritual, but because the acknowledgment of our faults and mistake is one of the most effectual means of correcting them, and of removing their effects on ourselves and others.
It
would seem that Thackeray was looking directly at little children and was endeavoring to paint a picture of their happy, beaming faces when he wrote, "What indeed does not that word cheerfulness imply?
The
spiritual analogies suggested by a lighthouse have appealed to many minds—its rock foundation, the great strength needed in its construction, the means used that the light shall be always of the best obtainable strength and quality, the reliability of character necessary for a lighthouse keeper,—these, and other facts, are of more than ordinary interest from a mental standpoint.
It is surely about time that intelligent men and women gave up repeating the catch-phrase that Christian Science is neither Christian nor scientific; and if they will not, that ably conducted papers gave up reporting them.
The sense in which Christian Science maintains and proves that our sense perceptions are unreal is in the sense of their being unreliable, passing, and unenduring; not that they do not seem real to us.
As we write these words there rises before the mental vision a long line of seers, reformers, discoverers, who were regarded as madmen by one generation, and hailed as saints and heroes by the next.
Encouraged by the monthly subscriptions to the building fund of the Christian Science church of Stockton, the members are arranging to place contracts for a suitable assembly edifice.
Editor
with contributions from R. Rathvon, Herbert W. Eustace
[The following letters are self-explanatory, and tell the story of our Leader's generous gift for the further enlargement of the publishing house, and also of the gift from the church at San Jose for the same purpose.
With
the beginning of each year there comes to many persons an impulse to "turn over a new leaf," and they go through the form of making resolutions which they believe will aid them in reaching a higher standard of living.
with contributions from Leora M. French, Bliss Knapp, Alice S. Brown, Caroline Clothier, Mary Flint Noyes, Emma Galloway Craft, First Church of Christ, Scientist, City of Mexico, J. Louise Carter, Lucy R. G. Branan, Mary E. Turley, Margaret A. Corser
I first heard of Christian Science in Sydney and in Melbourne, Australia, and though I grasped little of its meaning in the one or two interviews I had with the Scientists there, the earnestness and love which they manifested attracted me as I had not been for years and led me almost to hope that Christian Science was at any rate part of all they claimed it to be, and that it would reward honest investigation.
In looking over the half score of years since I first heard of Christian Science, I can now see that its beneficent influence upon my life began even then, though it was years afterward that I came to accept its teachings.
I came to Christian Science for healing, and since then I have gained a better understanding of what God is, and what He does for mankind, if we rely on Truth's power and hold to the allness of good.
Only through the torturing fear of having to undergo another operation, did I follow the advice of one who knew just a little of Christian Science, and so turn to it for help instead of to physicians.
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with contributions from Leora M. French, Bliss Knapp, Alice S. Brown, Caroline Clothier, Mary Flint Noyes, Emma Galloway Craft, First Church of Christ, Scientist, City of Mexico, J. Louise Carter, Lucy R. G. Branan, Mary E. Turley, Margaret A. Corser