June 18, 1910
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The "Administration railroad bill" has passed the United States Senate, fifty to twelve.
Worthy
members of all Christian churches will applaud the ring of loyalty recently expressed by a conscientious church-member in the following words: "Personally, I love my church and her sacraments too much ever to give her up, but I welcome gladly anything within her province that can be of use to any living soul in any way-spiritually, mentally, or physically.
Progress
in Christian Science is a process of awakening to the truth of being which was always true, because it existed always in divine Mind; and the student soon finds that his spiritual development is according to law, even as the Master said, "First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
In
an obscure corner of the Louvre is a little picture, timid, almost awkward in execution, as though the hand of the artist had faltered under the intolerable burden of his aspiration, tarnished in color, its canvas petty and insignificant, yet so original in conception, so startling in its dramatic intensity that it is numbered among the masterpieces of a man whose absorbing passion was the expression of light.
Only
as we learn to understand God and His relation to man, His idea, His image and likeness, can we intelligently appreciate the manifold blessings which our Leader, Mrs.
Though
the rough surge is thundering on the sand,And wild white-horses o'er the sullen seaRace with the raving wind, I take my stand,Immovable in calm security,Upon my rock, above the breakers hurled—The rock of Christ, above a 'whelming world.
One of the most rapidly increasing religious bodies in the world today is based on the belief that all calamity and evil and suffering is to be finally eliminated through an improved and uplifted thought about God and man's relation to Him, and a more perfect understanding and abiding faith in the Principle underlying and operating through that relation.
Animal magnetism is but the modern name for that which is as old as Adam.
Nothing is more foreign to the teaching and practice of Christian Science than the endeavor to use it in the acquirement of any material thing, as such.
The belief in the power of witchcraft, and the belief in the power of malicious animal magnetism, is one and the same belief, and it has its basis solely in the conception of a power or force opposed to God.
It is not supposed by Christian Scientists that the diseases of animals are produced by conscious fear or sin in them, as is the case many times, but not always, with human beings.
Over four decades ago an American woman, by the discernment of the spiritual law, as clearly defined to her as was the law of the falling apple to Newton, resurrected from the grave of human belief the scientific law of the Christ-healing.
In examining the report in these columns of the last of several sermons, the point that arrests attention, as perhaps most directly contradictory to the plain teaching of Christian Science, is the assertion that the healing work accomplished in Christian Science is the result of "suggestion.
Our critic asks: "Is Science and Health divinely inspired and of equal authority with the Bible?
If, as you suggest, Christian Science is irrational in its disregard of medical advice and help, it surely follows that to be a Christian it is necessary to be irrational.
At a meeting of the California Medical Society, Christian Science was referred to as being one of the forms of "quackery" which today threatens to lessen the physician's opportunity for earning a livelihood.
The
Christ is guest at many a princely boardWhere each one owns himself as lord,Where none of those with whom he sits at meatWould deign to kneel and wash his feet.
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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.
In
last week's issue of the Sentinel there appeared the testimony of a lady at Boulder, Col.
In
the 4th chapter of Matthew's Gospel we read that Christ Jesus healed those who were afflicted with "divers diseases and torments," including lunacy and palsy,—"all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
"I have
all respect for the Christian Science movement, and unhesitatingly accept the fact that it is accomplishing great good, but I cannot understand why you turn down and discard the products of scientific investigation; as for instance when you treat materia medica as of no value.
Five years ago I was spiritually starving, physically sick, and very weary, through trying to come into harmony with the laws of the God whom I dreaded and feared.
In his sermon on the mount Christ Jesus said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
In listening to a testimonial given by one who, though young in Science, was very desirous to be of help to others, I was reminded that my own experience might also be an encouragement to some one.
Having received so many blessings from Christian Science, it is with great pleasure that I give this testimony, hoping it may help others.
In the book of Revelation we read: "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Christian Science has done so much for me that I wish to express my most sincere gratitude to God, and my thanks to Mrs.
I have long felt that it was my duty to send in my testimony of healing through Christian Science.
For about six years I was a sufferer from severe stomach trouble, and part of the time my diet was limited to such an extent that I often suffered the pangs of hunger.
Some five years ago a friend told us about Christian Science.
Nearly twenty years ago divine Love led me to accept Christian Science, and never once in all those years have I had reason to doubt but that it is the Christ-idea made manifest to mortals.
Through the spoken word, declaring the power of Truth, in March, 1905, I laid aside an ankle-brace.
Being a young student of Christian Science, and desiring to do all I can to further the cause of Truth, the words of our Leader to her students.
In August, 1906, I spent a few weeks in the country, and there made the acquaintance of some Christian Scientists.
This is a statement of how I first heard of Christian Science and was healed of rheumatism and a serious heart trouble said to result from the rheumatism.
I am very grateful for the many blessings which have come to me through the understanding of Christian Science.
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The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
