When
a man has developed a sense of gratitude, he declares himself to be among the blessed ; for the fundamental fact in gratitude is not only that a man has blessing, but that he knows he has.
Recently
it came into my experience to travel through many cities in a short space of time, each day finding me confronted by some new condition as I moved rapidly from place to place.
Some
years ago, an employee of the English government, stationed at Bombay, being of a somewhat philanthropic turn of mind, conceived the idea of making use of his vacation by a journey to the plague-stricken district of Cashmere, with the hope of bringing succor to the afflicted ones.
When
the waves dash high and the storm-winds roar,And my barque seems frail and lone,When far, far away is the sheltering shore,And so near the seething foam;Through the starless night comes a gleam of light,As I lift mine eyes to thee,And above the tempest thy "Peace, be still,"Commands the turbulent sea.
Through the lists in The Bookman and elsewhere it is comparatively easy to keep track of the popularity of current fiction, as well as of some of the non-fiction and juvenile books.
It is none of our business, of course, but those who see in the New York hotel proprietor who died under Christian Science treatment "another victim of Eddyism" may as well recall that persons under treatment by followers of the dominant school of healing have been known to die from malaria and ptomaine poisoning.
Christian Science has been steadily and surely gaining a higher place in the estimation of the public, as evidenced by the increasing number of persons daily coming to it for help and comfort.
Our clerical critic is probably not aware that Christian Scientists, as a Christian people, are doing as much in their way to preserve the health of mankind and to overcome discord and disease of every name and nature as are members of other denominations.
Beloved Students:—The by-law of The Mother Church, stipulating three years as the term for its readers, neither binds nor compels the branch churches to follow suit.
It
is said that when Professor Morse was struggling to introduce the telegraph which he had invented, a certain congressman who with others had voted to appropriate a sum of money for the construction of an experimental line, was opposed for reelection on the ground that he had wasted public money upon a scheme which was entirely impracticable ; and he was defeated for this reason.
There
is a current saying, by way of definition, that orthodoxy means "my doxy," heterodoxy "the other man's doxy;" and one cannot read very far in the history of religion, nor observe very carefully the mental habits of mankind, without realizing that this humorous putting of a point voices a fact which enters into the determination of some of this life's greatest issues.
Words cannot express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me, so I am going to give a brief outline of my case and my condition before coming into Christian Science.
I wish to express my gratitude for the healing of an abscess and congestion of the breast; also the immediate healing, in one treatment, of a bad cough in the case of my little girl, also a bad earache.
Hoping that my experience may through the power of divine Love lead some other weary wanderer to know the truth that has been of such inestimable value to me, I give this testimony to some of the many blessings which have been mine since coming into Christian Science about four years ago.
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