The membership of the commission authorized by Congress to make an investigation of control of stock and bond issues by concerns engaged in interstate commerce, as announced, is composed of President Arthur Hadley of Yale, chairman; Frederic N.
Individuals
frequently disagree on matters of taste and sentiment, nations on matters of tradition and custom, and yet the points of agreement among nations as well as individuals are already numerous and are multiplying rapidly.
To
many Jews who would gladly adopt a religion that heals, there is an apparent stumbling-block in the use of the word "Christian" as applied to Christian Science.
Forty
years ago a faithful, truth-seeking woman listened to the utterance of the "still small voice," and opened the door of her heart to the call of despairing humanity, seeking for freedom from sin and suffering.
After I
had become thoroughly interested in the study of Christian Science, I remember that I read a Christian Science article which puzzled me very much.
Once,
while reading the twentieth chapter of Exodus, I was struck by the narrowness of the limit within which most people confine the meaning of the third commandment, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
The headmaster of Eton, and the author of the pamphlet to which Canon Lyttelton's endorsement in the preface alone lends any significance, have been guilty of an indiscretion.
If our critic's teachings border, as he says, on both those of Christian Science and a movement which advocates the use of drugs with prayer, it necessarily follows that his ideas are a combination of opposites which find no amalgamation either in logic or application, since Christian Science is as far removed from this movement as the divine will upon which Christ's teachings were based is removed from the human, hypnotic self-will.
In an article headed "Mental Healing" in a late issue, "The Hospital" enumerates a list of reputed therapeutic mental agencies, among the number being Christian Science.
It is not at all strange that the audience of our clerical critic was surprised when he said that Christian Science is "a most pernicious and astounding fraud," and that the people who accept it are "fools," since almost every man and woman in the country has at least one intimate friend who he knows is not a "fool," and yet has been a beneficiary of Christian Science and has accepted its teachings.
That
man is subject to sickness, and that sickness can be cured and life prolonged only by material means, is the claim upon which all attempts to secure so-called medical legislation, or legislation for "the conservation of human life," are based; and the question before the public at the present time is whether this assumption is true.
In presenting this testimony of what I owe to Christian Science, I feel that I am discharging in a measure a debt of gratitude which can never be wholly paid, for can we ever cease to be grateful for that which never ceases to bless?
Like many other sufferers who have trusted in God and set their last hope on Him, I too feel impelled to express my gratitude publicly and to call attention to the healing work accomplished through the wonderful teachings of Christian Science.
I come with a heart overflowing with love and gratitude to God, and to our dear Leader, for this truth which has set me free and placed my feet on the rock, Christ Jesus.
Years ago my ignorance of Christian Science made me very antagonistic to it, but later, after I had tasted of its healing waters, I was lifted above a sense of loss which had come to me, with the help of a kind practitioner and these words from one of our hymns:—
Five years ago, on leaving home to reside in San Francisco, my grandfather, one of the pioneers of Indiana and a Methodist minister, presented me with a copy of that wonderful book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," with the following inscription on the fly-leaf, "Read, and ponder well.
James Edwin Clark
with contributions from Elizabeth Lewison
My attention was directed to Christian Science by seeing the benefits of treatment given to a boy whose case had been diagnosed by the doctors as hip disease.
Dear
dweller in the dust of earth,Man is not dust, and ne'er shall be:His lineage of celestial birthProvides a happier fate for thee:Then lift on high those earth-bound eyes,And take thy birthright of the skies.
When
we look about us at this season of the year and behold the rich and rare colors of the early autumn as reflected by fruit and flower, we may well pause to consider the significant statement of our text-book, "that God creates all through Mind, not through matter,—that the plant grows, not because of seed or soil, but because growth is the eternal mandate of Mind".