An annual appropriation of twenty million dollars for five years to improve the post roads and rural delivery routes of the government was urged in the Senate by Mr.
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Christ Jesus told his followers that it was to be their privilege to do even greater works than those which he had done, they must have been astounded; but it is evident that they were not discouraged, for shortly after the resurrection they not only essayed to heal the sick and reform the sinning, but they actually did raise the dead; thus showing that they accepted the Master's command literally, and that it was not the opinion of the disciples that the healing power of Truth should disappear from the earth with the disappearance, to human sense, of the Master.
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you, my friend,—just you and I,—Should smile instead of worry;If, as the days and moments flyAmid life's stress and hurry,We aim to make our thoughts more kind.
We commend the courage that characterized Senator Works' defense of Christian Science on the floor of the Senate in opposition to the Owen bill proposing the creation of a federal department of public health.
The sermon printed in your issue of the 28th ultimo deals with a subject which looms very large in human thought at the present moment, and which the clerical critic has discovered it is impossible to brush aside with an obiter dictum.
Libraries and schools are alike interested in protecting the children from the demoralization of comic supplements and the sensationalism of saffron newspapers, and two movements for "clean journalism" should interest both.
When John the Baptist sent messengers to Jesus asking if he was the Messiah, Jesus replied: "Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Christian Science is the spiritual understanding of the Holy Scriptures; it is the spirit and intent of Jesus' teachings made applicable to twentieth-century conditions.
That
public sentiment is awakening to the real meaning and purpose of the legislation which the doctors have been trying to get through Congress for the past year or two, and which they have advocated in their own interest for something like twenty years, is apparent from the number of newspaper editorials which have recently appeared, calling attention to the danger of further adding to government paternalism for the benefit of the few.
On Sunday, July 9, was consummated the consolidation of the two church organizations in Columbus, which was lovingly commenced when the former Christian Science Society met with First Church on Easter Sunday, in response to an invitation extended by First Church.
In reading the Sentinel recently, the thought came to me very vividly that I must give out some at least of the blessings which I had received in Christian Science, although these have been so numerous that I know not where to begin.
Electus Backus Ward
with contributions from Rosa Muller
Words are inadequate to express the great pleasure it affords me to be able to declare publicly my gratitude for the blessings which Christian Science has brought to my family and myself.
At the dinner table one evening there arose a discussion upon the merits of Christian Science, and during the conversation my husband said, "One of the prominent physicians of New York told me there was no possible chance for my wife to get well.
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