At
a recent meeting of a prominent Church of Christ, Scientist, many plans were advanced whereby every one might do his or her share in supporting and promulgating the work of what might be called the Christian Science missionaries.
Not
infrequently the student of Christian Science is deprived of the larger realization of health and harmony which is man's birthright as a child of God, through a failure to discern and correct errors that may not stand out so prominently or seem so important as others to overcome.
The
writer, who was at the time the only Christian Scientist in the small country place where she had just then removed to live, received several visits from a local clergyman, a very highly esteemed and able man.
In
starting out on the road to sell a line of merchandise, I should rather be possessed of my present knowledge and limited understanding of Christian Science, travel in a territory where the house I represent, the goods I sell, and myself are all unknown, than to have all the advantages in this respect without a knowledge of the power and availability of Christian Science to satisfy my needs, here and now.
While
conversing with one on whom the light of Christian Science was just dawning, the remark was made that in Christian Science devils, as referred to in the Scriptures, are regarded as evils.
After
a heavy fall of snow, which in turn was succeeded by a keen frost, I was much interested in watching the efforts of the men who had the work of removing the snow from the roads and footpaths.
Our esteemed contemporary, The Christian Science Monitor, celebrated yesterday the second anniversary of its birth with a very creditable and attractive issue of 96 pages.
There are perhaps no people on earth today who believe more absolutely in the divinity of Christ Jesus and that he was and is the Son of God, than do Christian Scientists.
A review of an attack on Christian Science contains the following statement: "To trace the belief in malicious animal magnetism to its source is to trace it to Mrs.
Whether or not the impetus has come from Christian Science, the fact is undeniable that along with an increase of materialistic opinion and counteracting it, there has been a remarkable development of religion on the purely spiritual side.
The columns of our newspapers are full of the decline in church-going, but though many reasons are assigned for this, not one of them, I believe, gets down to the root of the matter.
Under the above caption the poems written by our Leader have been compiled in a handsome volume of 79 pages, now in press, and orders will be filled in sequence.
There
was a time when the ordinary newspaper man simply threw up his hands in despair when asked to define Christian Science or to state what its teachings are; but the following editorial, which we copy from the Waterbury.
All
through the Old Testament we find warnings against forgetfulness of the divine mercy and goodness, in evidence that this is a marked tendency on the part of mortals, who, however, seem to remember very vividly not only all the ills which they have experienced, but also those of which they have heard.
One
of the distinctive teachings of Christian Science to which superficial criticism has found frequent occasion to revert, is that of the unreality of the material world, and the suggestion that, since in their opinion there is no matter, Christian Scientists ought to be able and willing to forego eating, walk through stone walls, etc.
As an expression of gratitude for Christian Science, and the many blessings that follow in its train, I send the following testimony: Eleven years ago I read for the first time "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," at the urgent request of a friend.
I did not come to Christian Science for physical healing, but was led to investigate it by seeing the healing of my neighbor's daughter, who had been ill for three years.
I was unusually strong as a child, but for some unaccountable reason my health failed when I was a very young woman, and for twenty-five years, until I came into Christian Science, six years ago, my suffering was intense and continuous.
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