May 6, 1911
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The
injunction in Hebrews, that we "lay hold upon the hope set before us," implies the necessity for mentally grasping, appropriating, and applying those blessings which the one Spirit is constantly revealing to the pure in heart and to the needy.
The
writer's boyhood days were passed on an island, and one of his amusements was to go to the seashore to watch the little fishes as they darted to and fro in the pools that were left by the outgoing tide.
A study
of the fourth commandment shows the necessity for something more than a literal interpretation of the Decalogue.
Not
long ago, in trying to become conscious of the oneness and allness of God and the nothingness of the claim of error for a friend, my eyes rested on this sentence in Science and Health.
One
of the benefits which come to us through the understanding of Christian Science is the removal of the veil which in former times seemed to be over the Scriptures.
Crouched
in the roadside dust, which powdered whiteThe sorry rags that witnessed to his want,The mendicant mouthed prayers for passing alms.
Christian Science accepts statements and makes declarations concerning God which are accepted and made by every other Christian religion, among which are the following: that God is the only creator; that God is Spirit; that God made man in His image and likeness; that God pronounced all that He made good; that God is all-power—omnipotence; that God is everywhere—omnipresence; that God is all-knowledge—omniscience.
Christian Science teaches us to strive to lift our vision above the evidence of the material senses out into the wide infinity of absolute truth, out from narrow, relative view where evil seems so real, and so much would seem to contradict the omnipresence of love and good, into the understanding of God as All-in-all, and the consequent recognition of the unreality of anything unlike Him.
A clergyman in your city took occasion recently to deliver a sermon under the title, "Jesus versus Spiritualism and Christian Science.
Christian Scientists prove their views about Christ and about the supposed powers of evil to be correct, as did the early Christians, by positive "proof," by "signs following," such as Jesus affirmed should in all ages be the reasonable evidences of loyal, genuine discipleship.
That Christian Science should appear an absurdity to people who do not understand its teachings need cause no surprise; the discoveries of natural science met at first with equal derision.
An unprejudiced study of Christian Science would convince any one that it is the religion and gospel of Jesus Christ.
Christian Science does not depend upon the human mind or will-power to effect the cure of sin or disease.
The crimes of the tongue are words of unkindness, of anger, of malice, of envy, of bitterness, of harsh criticism, gossip, lying, and scandal.
One
cannot progress very far in the investigation and study of Christian Science without perceiving how closely it adheres in its teaching and demonstration to the truth the Master sought to convey to the self-seeking Pharisees, when they demanded of him the time the "kingdom of God" of which he had spoken should come.
We
had passed the doldrums with their characteristic rain and fog and fluffy winds, and had entered the southeast trades, a region of sunny seas and steady sails, well named "The Sailor's Delight.
A careful
study of the Bible reveals a widely different concept of poverty and riches than that popularly entertained, a truly metaphysical sense of these terms and others related to them, indicating mental rather than material conditions.
The Christian Scientists are building a church at the corner of Fifth and Bedford streets.
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The service room in the new Christian Science buildings, Uplands, was filled to overflowing on March 6, on the occasion of a lecture by Bicknell Young.
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The next admission of candidates will be June 2, 1911.
I wish to express my deep gratitude to God, also to Mrs.
For a long time my wife and I had given up the orthodox religion as unsatisfactory both to heart and reason, and although we very seldom spoke of religion, we were hungering after the truth both for ourselves and our children.
For the last eleven years our family of four has relied upon Christian Science for help, mental, physical, and spiritual.
I am inexpressibly thankful to God for Christian Science, and grateful to its Discoverer, Mrs.
A little over two years ago, and shortly after I began the study of Science and Health, our little boy, nine years of age, was taken ill with a fever.
I wish to acknowledge some of the blessings which I have received since coming to Christian Science.
A feeling of deep gratitude impels me to tell of the sense of peace and the blessings which I have experienced through Christian Science.
It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I give the following testimony for the help I have received through Christian Science.
It is now over two years since I became interested in Christian Science, and I wish to express my gratitude for the many demonstrations made for both myself and little son by a faithful worker.
I have long wished to express my gratitude for the many benefits received through Christian Science.
I am very glad to testify to what Christian Science has done for me.
It is with the deepest gratitude that I send this testimony to what Christian Science has done for me in making life happy and harmonious.
Many years before I would even test the benefits of Christian Science, I was turned from it by misrepresentation of its teachings, made not by malice but by a misunderstanding of the truth; but God was watching over me and preparing the soil of my thought, that the seed might again be sown and bring forth fruit for the harvest.
With sincere thankfulness to God for all the blessings bestowed upon me, and for guiding me to Christian Science, this new yet very old view of life eternal, I send my testimony to the Field.
It is with a heart filled with gratitude that I wish to tell of what Christian Science has done for me.
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The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
