Attorney-General Wickersham, in an address before the Minnesota Bar Association, declared that government commission is desirable to regulate great industrial organizations in the same way that the interstate commerce commission regulates railways; law of supply and demand no longer controls prices in the United States.
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my journey through the wilderness of human experiences, the glorious fact has been proven to me that God is the true source of supply when we apprehend and faithfully apply our understanding of our relationship to Him daily, in every need.
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has been said and many excellent articles have appeared in our periodicals corrective of a common misapprehension of the goal toward which the sincere Christian Scientist wends his way.
As the path winding up a mountainside leads, oftentimes, to an opening where the eye finds refreshment in the view, and then into the darkness of the wood; only to come out farther up and find revealings of greater beauty, so the journey out of material sense, with its doubts, fears, unsatisfied desires and unattained ideals, into the harmony and peace of Soul, is marked by periods of light and shade.
In the attack on Christian Science as reported, an evangelist is credited with the declaration that Christian Science "is but a slight improvement upon the philosophy of the Hindus.
You say that "in the most beautiful and healthful portions of our city, where no poverty obtains and the Christian Scientists are strong, there are at the present time so many cases of scarlet fever as to amount almost to an epidemic.
A late issue contained a criticism of Christian Science by Bishop Neely, which, coming as it did from the presiding elder at the New England conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, is a decided contrast to statements made at the Protestant Episcopal convention last fall, when Christian Science healing was referred to in an editorial in the Baltimore American as " 'a jewel which the church cast away and a woman picked up.
In an article entitled "Decrease of Medical Students in America" you go out of your way, after the manner which is becoming almost inevitable in the press today, to attack Christian Science, and, if you will forgive my saying so, you lose sight of your logic in the effort.
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Paul's second letter to Timothy he warns him against mere wordy discussions, which only tend to mislead the hearers; then he adds, "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
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moment one begins to think about law, in the light of Christian Science, that moment he begins to realize that the prevailing concepts of its meaning are confused and confusing to a degree which is most lamentable in view of the intimate, causal relation of law to life and conduct in human experience.
Under the auspices of the ten Churches of Christ, Scientist, a free reading and writing tent, seventy-five feet long and thirty-five feet wide, has been fitted up for the accommodation of the soldiers and visitors who are attending the national military tournament at Grant park, Chicago, this week.
As the glorious dawn of morning lightBrings forth the foreground into sight,Revealing form and beauty rareOf mountain, forest, flowers fair,As guardian with protecting graceOf tiniest nook or largest place;So doth the glory of our LordBring to our inner sight the WordMade flesh, its truth and fullest grace,Its depths of wisdom, sweetest face;Of perfect Love, no great, no small,—Our rereward, guardian, All-in-all.
CORA A. GOODNOW
with contributions from W. H. GOODNOW
With an overflowing heart for what Christian Science has done for me, I hereby offer the following testimony: In the spring of 1905 I submitted to a surgical operation.
Although not a member of any Christian Science organization, I deem it a duty to give testimony at this time to the undeniable fact that Christian Science is a very potent factor in the affairs of men.
MARY H. SLAUGHTER
with contributions from W. F. THOMAS
I rejoice that the opportunity has been given me to testify to the healing power in behalf of Christian Science, for I have seen many forms of error disappear under its declarations of the power of Truth.
I wish to express my gratitude for the many blessings I have received from the testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals, for these were the first things I read.
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stormy deeps men cry to Thee for aid,Their suppliant pleadings lost in ocean's roar,Trembling and cowering, belittled, sore afraid,Hearing God's anger in the sea at war.
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