That
immortal poet of humanity, Shakespeare, has analyzed most wonderfully nearly every phase of mortal thought, to the praise and astonishment of the world.
How many of earth's multitudes, weary and heavy laden, are crying out for deliverance,—those who are bowed down with the belief of poverty, the belief of inability to pay for the help so greatly needed! Poverty is a disease whose phases are legion.
In
the teachings of Christian Science no lesson is more insistent than that of exact and careful thinking, the girding up of the loins of the mind, to the end that all slovenly thinking may be done away with and one's progress in understanding made secure.
Many
and varied ways in which to serve the Christian Science cause through the medium of the Monitor constantly present themselves to those who are ready to grasp every opportunity for advancing this great truth which has done so much for us and which is reforming and regenerating the whole human family through the teaching and example of our beloved Leader, Mrs.
Our critic objects to the statement that to admit that sin and disease can originate in God would be equivalent to saying that God contained an element of self-destruction.
One who could not demonstrate a problem in arithmetic would not be considered proficient to interpret the principle of numbers, and as these gentlemen [of a ministerial union] cannot demonstrate the teachings of Christian Science, they certainly are not qualified to sit in judgment upon those who can.
The statute of California contains an act for the regulation of the practice of medicine, concluding with a proviso "that nothing herein shall be held to apply or to regulate any kind of treatment by prayer.
The effort to live up to the high ideal as taught by Christ Jesus is the daily work of Christian Scientists who are striving to follow the commands of the Master.
That
there is a steady increase in the number of branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, and in the number of those who attend our services, is well exemplified in a press despatch from Chicago which we print in another column.
In
the fiftieth chapter of the prophecy of Jeremiah we read that in the latter days people would seek after God with their whole heart, and say, "Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
We
were visiting a normal school, and had observed here and there blackboard sketches which were illustrative of the varied topics of study, and which clearly betrayed the touch of an artist.
My attention was first called to Christian Science when by the advice of a dear friend I applied myself to gain an understanding of it, and was healed of a chronic illness of more than twenty years' standing.
I have had many experiences of healing in Christian Science, some of them seeming wonderful to me and for which my gratitude has been inexpressible; but none have been so real to me and so clear as my first demonstration, perhaps because I had not known before that God really does heal the sick.
I was suffering greatly with one of my fingers, and I was tempted to ask for treatment, but I knew the truth of this healing religion, and that God was with me just the same as with any other.
Several years ago, after all material means had failed to relieve a seriously injured ankle, I turned to Christian Science with the same thought that I had given the other modes of cure—and no more, for to me it was nothing but a name; but having no prejudices and desiring to be healed, it was only reasonable that I should heed the advice of the practitioner just as carefully as I had followed the instructions of the various methods previously tried.
For
thirty bits of silver stamped as coinOur Master was betrayed by one who knewAnd walked with him along the way;But walked and talked as sleeper in a dream.
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