September 24, 1910
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The National Association of Supervisors of State Banks held a three-days convention at Washington last week.
In
the fourth chapter of Genesis we are tersely told of the judgment which followed so closely upon the crime committed by Cain: "And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother?
In
answer to the question, "How can I progress most rapidly in the understanding of Christian Science?
We
are all more or less familiar with the account of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand, and have gained therefrom an assurance that there is a law of supply which if understood and put into operation silences forever under all conditions the belief in or fear of limitation and poverty.
Hanging
in a prominent place in a certain practitioner's office is this motto: "Don't criticize.
The
psalmist says, "Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage," and in Science and Health we read.
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The letter of our critic, published in your issue of the 27th inst.
Jesus plainly assured his followers, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also.
If Christian Science has done nothing else for modern religious thought, it is worth while simply for the demonstration it affords in crowded congregations, assembled through no enticements of pulpit oratory or celebrated singers and organists, but chiefly through the spontaneous impulse of personal religious experience.
Inasmuch as there is hardly an individual in any community who has not at least one friend that has experienced the benefits of Christian Science and become a "believer," it is indeed a surprise that a clergyman, whose duty it is to bring to suffering humanity the salvation taught and practised by our Master, should make the statements of our critic.
Christian Science and methods which seek to combine drugs and prayer are not only not akin, philosophically or otherwise, but they bear no resemblance to each other in any important particular.
In reply to a recent article in which Christian Scientists are criticized in connection with arguments made for the establishment of a national department of health, permit me to say that Christian Scientists are working just as intelligently and effectively to prevent and cure disease as any other class of people, and that this statement is provable.
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.
A friend said to me yesterday: "I have read Mr.
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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.
It
is not surprising, perhaps, that the novice in Christian Science should find himself somewhat confused as to the proper function and form of prayer.
There
are thousands who have listened to the beautiful aria, "O rest in the Lord," and who have felt at least momentarily that it is good to "wait patiently" for God, who have never thought of applying this profound truth to every difficult experience of daily life.
Beginning with Sunday, July 31, the Christian Scientists of the Twin Cities will hold their services in their new chapel at 26 Delaware avenue.
As I have been strengthened and encouraged by reading the testimonies of others, I wish to offer my own.
I feel so very thankful for what Christian Science has done for me and for our little boy, that it gives me great pleasure to send a testimony, and I sincerely hope that many mothers may be influenced to have their children relieved from bondage through Christian Science.
I have felt for some time that I, as one who had been greatly benefited by the knowledge that God has imparted to His children, through "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," should testify to the world of the wonderful healing and spiritual unfolding that have come to me through the study of Christian Science, in connection with the Bible, and the services of a Christian Science practitioner.
It is over six years since I became interested in Christian Science, and words are inadequate to express my gratitude to God for the wonderful blessings He has showered upon me in that time.
Christian Science has brought to me so many blessings that I feel as if words could not adequately express my thankfulness for this truth.
Since I first began the study of Christian Science, over ten years ago, it has truly been to me the promised Comforter, lifting me out of many dark places and bringing me into the light which heals and saves.
I want to make a just acknowledgment of what Truth has done for me.
Science and Health says, "Christian Science brings to the body the sunlight of Truth, which invigorates and purifies".
I wish to express my gratitude for a few of the many demonstrations I have had of Truth's power.
I want to express my gratitude for the help I have received through Christian Science.
I was always regarded as a delicate child, and at the age of sixteen the doctors said I had lung trouble, besides other aliments which were distressing me.
About a year and a half ago, through the healing of a little child in a home where I lived, Christian Science and its beautiful teachings of Truth first came to me.
It is with great pleasure and the deepest gratitude that I tell of the wonderful blessing which has come through Christian Science to my family.
I wish to express my gratitiude for all that Christian Science has done and is doing at the present time for me and mine.
Prompted by divine Love, and with a heart full of gratitude for all that Christian Science has brought to me, I write this testimony, trusting it may help some one as others' testimonies have helped me.
In a time of great need and distress I was led to Christian Science for help.
I am glad to forward my testimony to the Sentinel.
About three years ago my little boy was very sick, the physician pronouncing it a bad case of fever.
The care with which all machinery is cleansed and oiled, so that neither dust nor friction will wear the parts, is suggestive to us as Christian Scientists.
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The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
