A horticulturist has been engaged by the educational authorities of the Canal Zone to give instruction in gardening in the schools for colored children.
Along
nearly every line of human research and investigation the first point to consider is the source of the information desired, and it is very generally acknowledged that the only feasible and consistent course to pursue is to go direct to the fountainhead of information.
With
each new by-law that our wise Leader gives to the Field, there must well up in the heart of every loyal student a great sense of love and gratitude, as he joyfully exclaims with the psalmist, "The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes:.
Truth
illumines mortal consciousness as light dispels darkness, radiating with its beams divine the darkened chambers of the human heart and permeating the musty corners with the sweet odors of frankincense and myrrh.
Sir
Francis Bacon, who flourished in the sixteenth century, was a mental giant but a moral pigmy, and "pigmies are pigmies still, though perched on Alps," says Pope.
One
little seed of Life outspedInto earth's death-filled thought,And the roots will strengthen, and grow, and spread,Till the tree springs up, and the leaves o'erheadTheir healing balm on the nations shed,Who freedom from fear have sought.
Christian Scientists accept unreservedly the teaching of the Scriptures: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
In practising under the rules given in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Christian Scientists are healing thousands afflicted with all the ills that flesh is heir to, in accordance with the system instituted by Jesus and successfully practised by him during his earthly ministry.
Christianity has quite generally accepted the Scriptural teaching that healing the sick as well as the sinful should attend the Christian ministry, and there is an earnest searching to discover the gospel which heals the sick, and thus reinstate primitive Christian healing.
Most cases offered as evidence of failure on the part of Christian Science are found upon investigation to be either fictitious or they are of those who turned to Christian Science as a last resort after all material means had failed.
If there is one thing that Christian Science is doing, it is lifting people out of the quicksands of superstition and ignorance, and placing them on the firm ground of understanding.
Christian Science claims that the teachings of Jesus are applicable not only to the time in which he lived, but to all time, as he indicated by his declaration: "My words shall not pass away.
Our clerical critic, as reported in your columns, took exception in a recent sermon to what he assumed were the teachings of Christian Science; but the fact is that Christian Scientists would heartily condemn the very things this gentleman condemns, for they have no place in the teachings or practice of Christian Science.
A Peculiarity
that has long been noticed by Christian Scientists is that those who have criticized their faith from a theological standpoint, frequently have been willing to grant the possibility or even certainty of its value as a healing agency, while many of those who have criticized it from the view-point of a physician have been equally ready to admit that its theology is productive of good results.
Within
the past fifty years the world has undoubtedly made its greatest progress, and this because men have at last come to see that all truth is knowable and that even the quest for truth contributes greatly to the progress of the individual as well as that of the race.
with contributions from Mary Baker Eddy, Frederick Dixon, Ernest C. Price, A. Phelps Wyman, Mary Brookins, Geo. H. Cooper, Ellen N. Van Ostrand, Jessie C. Adams, H. B. Dutton, C. C. Cook, W. R. Thomas, G.H. Trader, First Church of Christ, Scientist, Peoria, Ill
Christian Science has been such a great help to me in business that perhaps my experience may encourage some other woman, who, like myself, goes out daily into the workaday world, feeling often like a mere atom among the toiling thousands in our big cities.
I have long felt a desire to express my love and gratitude for the many blessings and privileges I have had through even the slight understanding of Christian Science which I have attained.
As the years go by, the one passage of Scripture my mother repeated oftener than any other, has a deeper meaning to me, because I see it fulfilled: "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
with contributions from Mary Baker Eddy, Frederick Dixon, Ernest C. Price, A. Phelps Wyman, Mary Brookins, Geo. H. Cooper, Ellen N. Van Ostrand, Jessie C. Adams, H. B. Dutton, C. C. Cook, W. R. Thomas, G.H. Trader, First Church of Christ, Scientist, Peoria, Ill