Since
coming into Christian Science, January has not been differentiated to the writer from other months, in regard to a sense of cheerfulness and contentment.
The
experience of a man who for many years had at regular intervals visited a certain city, will serve to illustrate the truth of the statement some one has made, that "through self-sacrifice one finds himself.
Sometimes,
among people who are just coming into Christian Science, a remarkable healing takes place as a result of the young Scientist's own reflection of the truth.
President Taft's amendment to his general executive order, by which Christian Scientists are to be allowed to practise in the Panama Canal Zone, will appeal to the American sense of fair play.
The statement made by the bishop of Chichester, in which he affirms that Christian Science is "neither Christian nor scientific," is not likely to carry with it any great sense of conviction to those who are not believers in Christian Science, and certainly will not produce any sense of uneasiness in those who are.
When the highly educated and cultured young Pliny, a pagan Roman, served as governor of the province of Bithynia, in the early part of the second century of our era, he found spreading there what he termed a crude "superstition," a sect whose followers, although not guilty of any flagrant violation of law, were accounted possessed of a strange and dangerous religious "fanaticism.
It
is quite as difficult today to reconcile the differences which sometimes seem to exist between those of the same "household of faith," in family, business, social, or church relations, with their attitude of professed Christians, as it must have been for the apostle John when he penned the keen rebuke we find in his first epistle: "If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
The
earliest record of misunderstandings which we have is that found in Genesis, where we read that the people were building a tower, intended to reach heaven, and that the Lord came from the sky to see what they were doing and said, "Let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Louise Aarons
with contributions from Maude Addison
In gratitude to God, also to our beloved Leader for the great benefits I have received from Christian Science, I can no longer keep silent; in fact I have done so too long already.
Feeling convinced, as I do, that I owe to Christian Science my life and health, I give this testimony with a joyful heart and a feeling of deepest gratitude.
Last
night, in the city's heavy heat,My ears were filled with the weary droneOf sullen sound from the restless street,Telling in ceaseless monotoneOf unending struggle for wordly place,Of the feverish fight for empty pelf,With the only meeds of the headlong raceThe wages of sin and the shackles of self.
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