Some time ago a fire insurance exchange was formed in New Jersey, its membership including all the fire insurance companies of consequence and their representatives, and an agreement was entered into which provided that rates should be fixed for the entire territory covered by the exchange; that these rates should be binding upon all members, and that only brokers who had obrained the certificate of the exchange could do business with the companies in question on the regular brokerage basis.
It
need hardly be said at this day that the only correct method of studying Christian Science is that given in its text-book, Science and Health, and that any deviation therefrom will surely lead to misconceptions of the subject.
A cure
in Christian Science is based upon the scientific fact that since true health is spiritual and eternal, there has never been a lapse from this genuine health, never any cessation of harmony nor any interference with God's government; so that man is amply justified in looking upon God as the health of his countenance.
Some
time ago, along with my husband and two children, I spent a delightful holiday in exploring the ruins of Crookston Castle, situated near Paisley, Scotland, which is said to be eighteen hundred years old.
The
prefatory quotation from "Miscellaneous Writings" inserted in the Manual of The Mother Church is full of meaning in its explanation of the purpose of our by-laws: "They sprang from necessity.
To say that the practice of Christian Science endangers the health of the community is to say that it is not safe to trust God as the "great Physician" for body, mind, and soul, for this is just what Christian Science does.
Our clerical friend affirms, in substance, that Christian Science heals by suggestion, which is not essentially a religion, and not according to divine power as the Christian Scientists believe.
Gibbon's "History of Rome" recites the fact that for three hundred years after the crucifixion primitive Christians healed the sick and raised the dead through their spiritual understanding of God's power over human error.
Christian Science depends not upon personal magnetism, hypnotism, mesmerism, or any other phase of so-called human mind-force, but it depends for its results absolutely upon the manifestation of God's power to heal the sick and sinful in accordance with the teachings of Scripture.
Does the state of Missouri intend, through its laws, to create a monopoly of the medical profession, and grant to the members of that profession the sole and exclusive right to cure the sick?
An
important factor in the advancement of the Cause of Christian Science is its publications, and the progress which has been made along this line, in the way of development, owes its success, in large measure, to those loyal workers, all over the field, who are mindful of our Leader's longtime request that they not only subscribe for the periodicals issued by the Publishing Society, but read them and write for them.
One
of the most significant features of the story of the prodigal is this, that when understood it is found to be not a far-away Oriental tale, but a near-by experience.
with contributions from Stella D. Cary, Carrie F. Roehr, Eugenia L. Mason, Orlando B. Cudebac, Herbert A. Morgan, Alice Cheney Smith, Alice Thrall Nebe, Minnie S. Munson, Philip Peter Major, Thomas H. Smith, Margaret Riggs Cox, Margaret Dundee Gibb, Ella Garrison Young, L. M. Barber, Jennie J. Churchill, Eliza L. Jones
I feel impelled to write a brief acknowledgment of the debt I owe to Christian Science, but words seem so hopelessly inadequate to express the thoughts of which the heart is full, that I am almost ashamed to send so cold and brief a report.
One day in the summer of 1908, I scalded my left arm very badly, but by steadily declaring that God is the only power, I suffered very little from the injury after the first few minutes.
About four years ago some disagreeable growths began to make their appearance on my hands, until both of them were almost covered, some of these excrescences being very large.
I have long felt it a duty to express through our periodicals my gratitude for the many benefits that Christian Science has brought to me and mine, as I have much to be thankful for.
After having been treated under materia medica for several years without any permanent benefit, I at last turned to Christian Science and was healed of severe catarrhal trouble in less than one week, although I took treatment for three weeks before I was thoroughly convinced that I was permanently healed.
I am not a Christian Scientist, but claim the privilege of giving a little testimony respecting an accident I experienced in February, 1907, and the good result derived from Christian Science treatment.
Nearly two years ago I became interested in Christian Science, and since that time I have not enlisted the services of a physician, or depended upon materia medica to overcome physical discord.
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with contributions from Stella D. Cary, Carrie F. Roehr, Eugenia L. Mason, Orlando B. Cudebac, Herbert A. Morgan, Alice Cheney Smith, Alice Thrall Nebe, Minnie S. Munson, Philip Peter Major, Thomas H. Smith, Margaret Riggs Cox, Margaret Dundee Gibb, Ella Garrison Young, L. M. Barber, Jennie J. Churchill, Eliza L. Jones