"We have twenty Switzerlands in the United States, yet last year Switzerland took between one hundred and fifty and two hundred millions of dollars from tourists, while the United States is actually losing money by not developing its national parks.
The
doing of good ought certainly to have results beneficent to the doer, even as the labor of the sower makes more certain to him a share in the harvest.
In
his second epistle to the Corinthians, Paul, after exhorting the brethren to bountiful and cheerful almsgiving, closes with the words, "Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
Complaint
is frequently made that in church service the hymns are sung too slowly, that the tune is made to drag heavily along, taxing breath capacity and offending the sense of rhythm.
President Taft has modified the regulations as to the practice of medicine in the Canal Zone, under pressure of the Christian Scientists, who were excluded in the first narrow order.
The most tragic and touching scene in the eventful career of Paul, that sturdy apostle of the Gentiles, was not any one of his harrowing experience with the elements, with wild beasts, or with wilder opponents in human guise; it was that soul-stirring episode on Mars' hill, on the occasion when he preached to the philosophers of the Grecian metropolis.
I have just read the paragraph on faith-healing in the Dispatch, and am much struck by the remarks of the clergyman, as therein quoted: "I truly believe that the time is coming when man will be able to conquer disease by the aid of God, just as, by the aid of God, he can overcome sin.
A few
weeks ago the News-Democrat of Canton, Ohio, did a fine and helpful thing—something that most newspapers would think could not be done in these days when "business is business" and the material rather than the spiritual is thought by so many to be of most importance.
Not
so many years ago, there were not many religious people who ever thought that man's likeness to God was other than a bodily likeness; in fact, they argued that inasmuch as man's likeness to God is declared in the first chapter of Genesis, God must be corporeal, because mortals are so.
It is with a heart filled with gratitude that I wish to testify to the innumerable blessings which I have received and which I am still receiving through Christian Science.
After a three-years test of Christian Science as a curative system and a demonstrable religion, I rejoice to add my testimony to those weekly appearing in our Sentinel.
It is a blessed privilege to give a testimony to the healing power of Christian Science, and I am grateful for the opportunity of expressing my joy in being able to take up my bed and walk.
As
we journey on the pathwayOf our course from sense to Soul,And behold with raptured visionLove's sure heritage, our goal,Let us then a gladsome greetingGive each brother on the way,Who perhaps may see less clearlyEvery blessing of the day;That his heart may take fresh courage,And may join us in our songWhich we sing with full assuranceOf deliverance from all wrong.
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