The Boy Scout movement is emphasized as an aid to conservation by conservation by Gifford Pinchot, former chief forester, who says of it: "There are very many reasons why I believe in the Boy Scouts; one of the first of them is that I do not see how it is possible for any good scout to grow up without becoming a good forester.
The
last chapter of Deuteronomy and the first two chapters of Joshua narrate an incident of that memorable journey of the Israelites to the promised land which will prove helpful and instructive and well repay careful study on the part of Christian Scientists.
Many
students of Christian Science have doubtless passed through that stage wherein, with hearts filled with gratitude to God for healing, and with wonder at the clear, forceful logic of Christian Science, they have found themselves, in the exuberance of their joy, casting about for a convenient hill-top from which to proclaim the glad tidings to the world; have felt, too, the disappointment which comes when one's message is received with incredulous smiles, if not open antagonism, by those whom they most desire to interest in this new-found truth which has done so much for themselves.
The
chastening influence of self-knowledge through which the loyal Scientist passes is a searching period, attended with surprising discoveries, bare-faced and humiliating.
Those
who have studied Christian Science know that as they recognize the Principle of its teachings the unreality of any form of discord becomes apparent.
With
the new birth that comes to us in Christian Science, there dawns a clearer vision and the ability to utilize past experiences which at the time seemed to have no permanent value.
The hundreds of thousands of people who have been immeasurably benefited because of the beneficent teachings of Christian Science stand unitedly in the consciousness that it has brought to them that peace "which passeth all understanding;" that it has not only healed them of their physical troubles, but it has given them a higher and better understanding of God and man's relation to God, whereby they are enabled not only to be better and live better themselves, but also to help and benefit their fellow-men.
The clergyman's somewhat contemptuous criticism of what he considers to be the teaching of Christian Science, as quoted in your columns, is scarcely in keeping with the gentle thought of the Master he claims to serve, who reproved his own disciples for forbidding the work of the one who cast out devils in his name "because he followeth not us.
The numerous efforts made to force medical or health legislation of a certain kind through the various legislatures have attracted very little popular attention.
Christian Science does not teach that disease and pain are unreal to the human senses, any more than natural science teaches that matter is unreal to them.
The term "sin" has a much broader signification than that of the voluntary commission of wrong acts alone, but according to Webster it includes "all evil thoughts.
In
the early experience of most Christian Scientists there comes a time when they are so wonderfully impressed with the healing work that is being done for them and for others,—when they awaken to the realization that the power of Truth to heal is available today as it was in the time of the Master and his disciples,—that they simply bubble over with enthusiasm in their happiness over this new-found faith, and are eager to right every seemingly wrong condition in health or in morals among their friends, believing that all there is to do in order to accomplish this is to tell them of what they have themselves seen and heard.
The finishing touches are being placed on the interior of the new Christian Science church building at Allegan and Walnut streets, and it is planned to hold the first service in the new edifice on Sunday, March 5, or March 12 at the latest.
Our Leader tells us in the Manual that "testimony in regard to the healing of the sick is highly important," so I send mine, hoping that it may be a help to some one.
I was asked by a friend why I became interested in Christian Science, so I gave him the following reason: I was troubled with an eruption on my hands, neck, and face, which for over twenty years appeared every spring and lasted about six weeks.
Into
a desert place come ye apart,The loving Master said, and rest awhile;For earthly hopes and joys have claimed thy heartAnd human ways and means thy thoughts beguile.
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