With the world's records broken for low cost and rapidity of construction, the boring of the great five-mile Elizabeth tunnel, fourteen feet wide and eleven feet high, the most important features of the new twenty-six million-dollar municipal water project of Los Angeles, Cal.
The
desire to be good is the first essential to living a good life; but this desire alone does not bring that knowledge of God which overcomes the sense of evil.
It
is the splendid privilege of every man and woman to be a Christian Scientist; that is, to be a scientific Christian—one who proves that the teaching of Jesus the Christ is forever true and hence demonstrable today, even as it was nineteen hundred years ago.
These
words of Jesus, "A man's foes shall be they of his own household," as recorded in the tenth chapter of Matthew and quoted from the seventh chapter of Micah, literally interpreted, show the utter uselessness of any attempt to trust in or depend upon persons, even though they be one's closest and best friends.
My
song among the hills I sing forever,My liquid lute I pipe the livelong day,In melancholy mood or glad endeavor,A doleful dirge or rhythmic roundelay.
As many people are inquiring what Christian Science is, and wherein it differs from faith-healing and mental suggestion, perhaps you will allow me space for a few remarks on the subject.
The
record of the three years of Jesus' public ministry, as it is given in the four Gospels, is full of the accounts of his healing of the sick, and we get a glimpse of the real magnitude of his labors through John, who closes his account with the statement that if all the things which Jesus did should be written, "even the world itself could not contain the books.
A great
thinker has said that "few men know how to live," and although this is a self-evident truth, there are perhaps not many who would be willing to apply it to themselves.
Munsey's Magazine announces for its April number an article entitled "The Girlhood Letters of Mary Baker Eddy," together with a poem, hitherto unpublished, written by the great Leader in her school-days.
A new photogravure reproduction of The Mother Church edifices and the Publishing House, with the new parkway in the foreground, has just been made, and is now on sale.
I first heard of Christian Science through some Sentinels sent to me from England by my mother while I was on military service with Compton's Horse, during the late Boer war.
I have been benefited in many ways by Christian Science, and I feel that I should like to add my testimony to the long list of those who have been healed through the understanding of the truth as revealed to this age in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
When I heard of Christian Science I was in hard bondage to error, but through the faithful help of a Christian Science practitioner, and the study of the text-book, evil gradually lost its seeming power, and I now see the way in which I have to walk in order to turn away from the unreal.
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