February 19, 1910
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Representatives of the Farmers' Union appeared before the House committee on agriculture last week to urge the enactment into law of a bill which will put an end to cotton "futures" in the cotton exchanges.
Lincoln
day was observed in The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, at noon Feb.
The
faculty of speech has ever been considered one of the chief distinguishing characteristics of the human race.
The
old-time message of Christianity is repeated in Christian Science: "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
When
the light of Truth strikes upon a man's consciousness for the first time, showing up in evil's own colors the belief in the attractiveness of sin, a strong revulsion occurs, and the abhorrence of all unlike itself which Truth engenders is so intense that a general purification of character necessarily results.
In
Christian Science we learn that there is one Principle and one idea; one cause, and one creation as effect of this cause; that God, good, is Principle or cause, and that the universe and man are the idea or creation of Spirit, Life, Truth, Love, Mind.
If the Christian Scientists can find a better way to escape the ills the flesh has been heir to from time immemorial, why not let them do it?
It happens that there is in the New Testament a definition of a Christian upon which all can agree and concerning which none can dispute, since it is the definition given by the Founder of the Christian religion.
Spiritual things must of necessity be considered wholly from a spiritual basis, for since the material, corporeal, mortal, or temporal have no part in the spiritual and can in no way express Spirit, it is at once obvious that a discussion of the spiritual cannot involve a consideration of the material.
The Archbishop of York a few weeks ago contributed to a discussion on Christian Science the results of his own observation and experience.
During the past decade, some members of the medical and clerical professions have found in Christian Science a favorite subject for their oratorical knives, regardless of the fact that in the end the edge of their weapons might be turned.
In a late issue there appeared the following from a critic: "Christian Science does not publish failures.
To those who understand the Principle of Christian Science there is absolutely nothing inconsistent or fanciful in its teachings.
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The next admission of candidates will be June 3, 1910.
A Thanksgiving service was held jointly by First and Second Churches of Christ, Scientist, Manchester, England, on Saturday Dec.
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The author of the Christian Science text-book takes no patients, and reads no letters on disease, distress, or error of any kind.
One
of the necessary conditions for the success of a Christian Science church is harmony, and in order to bring about this condition or to maintain it, it is important to know what constitutes true harmony.
In Christian Science faith grows out of an understood Principle, while the world's philosophies and sciences have all begun with the phenomena of experience and reasoned therefrom.
In
the seventeenth chapter of Acts we read of Paul's visit to Thessalonica, and of the awakening to truth of many "devout Greeks," among them prominent women; as also at Berea.
It is with the deepest gratitude that I send my testimony to the Sentinel.
Christian Science was brought into our home a few years ago through a dear friend of my childhood days.
I gladly testify to the efficacy of Christian Science in healing, as I have been relieved of rheumatism and other ailments.
Because I desired physical healing so earnestly, I became willing to be interested in Christian Science, but it was perhaps three months before any meaning came to me from my reading.
I am nearly seventy-seven years old and have known of Christian Science about twenty-five years, but did not accept it until a little over a year ago.
In 1902 I was healed of an aggravated case of bladder trouble.
I have known about Christian Science for several years, and for the past two years I have studied its teachings closely.
It will be very gratifying to me if I, through the columns of the Sentinel, may add a word of the wonderful help which has come to me and mine through the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and of my longing to know more of the great truth of the Scriptures which is unfolded to me by reading this priceless book.
I wish to express my gratitude to God for what Christian Science has done for me.
Nothing but the hope that some one else may be benefited by my experience, would induce me to recall the dark hours of sickness and discouragement which I endured before I was healed in Christian Science.
I should like to add my testimony to that of the many I read each week in our Sentinel.
In love and gratitude to God I desire to express my deep thanks for all the blessings He has bestowed on me and my family.
Words fail me when I attempt to express my gratitude to God, and to our dear Leader for Christian Science.
I have
learned a helpful lessonWhich a sweet assurance brings,—Just a lesson to be thankfulFor the gift of little things.
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The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
