The measure providing for the acceptance by New York State of the splendid gift of one million dollars and ten thousand acres of land along the Hudson river for park purposes, offered by Mrs.
"The
seekers of the light are one;" so reads the loved hymn of Samuel Longfellow, and this thought finds honest response in the heart of the Christian Scientist, for he is engaged in discovering those things in which he is at-one with God and with his fellow-men.
A well-known
preacher once said in a sermon that he did not believe that life after death would be "an eternal sitting in damp clouds, playing on harps, and singing praises to God," as so many people seemed to think.
From the love of liberty and, from what is rarer, the ability of organizing liberty in institutions, sprang the America of which we are so fondly proud.
For the past forty years Christian Science has been quietly healing sin and sickness, and its beneficiaries and adherents in all parts of the world witness unhesitatingly that they are better than they were before they came under the influence of its teaching.
In my working relations with different churches for many years, I have found none more earnestly persistent in going about doing good "in his name" than the Christian Scientists; none more fully awake to the fact that, if they expect to reign with Christ, they must also share his cup of earthly sorrow, rejoicing if they may be counted worthy to suffer shame and persecution for his name; none who take more literally his whole command to "preach the gospel" and "heal the sick," well knowing that only in proportion to their right understanding of Truth can they cast out the evil in themselves and others.
It seems quite natural that mortals should think that those who hold a different view from that held by their own school, are poor, deluded people; and our critic is apparently no exception to the rule.
It
sometimes appears to those who are engaged in slowly and patiently building up a Christian Science church or society in a small city or town, that perhaps more aggressive methods than those ordinarily in use might be employed with advantage, in order to secure more quickly the desired growth in numbers of the church membership.
We
are often reminded in modern times of the proud boast of the Laodiceans, "I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing;" and of the stern rebuke of Spirit, "Thou.
When
Christ Jesus declared that "a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit," he enunciated that unvarying law of identification and estimate which is divine, and which Christian Science insists upon and is ready to submit to as a final test of values.
We long to leave something behind us which shall last, some influence of good which shall be transmitted through our children, some impress of character or action which shall endure and perpetuate itself.
If these simple statements of my experience should reach some poor suffering and discouraged mortal, such as I was before I knew of Christian Science, and should afford him as great pleasure and profit as the reading of the experiences of others has afforded me, I shall feel that I have indeed found my own in another's good.
I am grateful for many healings in Christian Science—surely I have been delivered from dreadful bondage; but rising above all else in thought is the knowledge that in Christian Science one may find a solution for every problem humanity ever faced.
During the spring of 1905 my husband and I were led into Christian Science through the healing of my father, who after many years of suffering was healed of a double rupture, together with other serious ailments, through the reading of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
Samuel B. Chase
with contributions from Clara A. Chase
When my attention was first called to Christian Science I gave it little consideration, but I am very grateful that I have since learned a little of the Principle of being as made known by Mrs.
As a subscriber, you can download any Sentinel issue published within the last 90 days (PDF, eBook, and audio). You can also take a look inside each issue as it originally appeared in print, starting with the very first issue from 1898.