Enlarged application of the leasing principle as applied to public domain, especially a liberal leasing law for the development of the mineral resources of Alaska, particularly its coal lands, and immediate consideration by Congress of the whole subject of water-power development and control, are the most important recommendations contained in the annual report of Secretary of the Interior Fisher.
Perhaps
the most difficult problem with which we have to grapple in our warfare with materiality, is in recognizing the nothingness of affection which is not based upon spirituality.
If
a child were disturbed by a belief in ghosts and were to cry out in terror at the delusion, the average parent, unacquainted with mental processes and ignorant of the fact that the child was suffering from a false sense of something, would be in a position to offer nothing more than mere human consolation.
It is quite likely that there were humorists in the time of Christ Jesus who sought to discredit his mission by playing upon the popular sense of humor, but how miserably such efforts failed to hinder the onward march of truth! What, in the light of subsequent events, could be more pitiable than the ridicule of those who, according to the gospel of John, crowned Jesus with thorns, put on him a purple robe, and in mockery hailing him as king of the Jews, "smote him with their hands.
It is an extraordinary fact that gentlemen who usually are quite kindly, cannot approach the subject of Christian Science without parting company with their self-control.
In a recent issue of the Journal the very inconsistent statement was set forth by a local contributor to the effect that a minister in one of the Chickasha churches had characterized Christian Science as "being both unchristian and unscientific," and coupled this with the contributor's conclusion that "there was nothing offensive in his treatment of the subject.
Regarding my statement that the criticism of Christian Science is due to an endorsement of material sense as opposed to spiritual understanding, you say, "We measured them with all the 'sense' at our command.
According to report the clergyman offered his tribute to the memory of the evangelist Luke, last Wednesday, in the form of an exceedingly violent attack upon Christian Science.
Christian Science
teaches unequivocally that sin, disease, and death are but different phases of the one evil against which its followers have enlisted, and that, therefore, these would-be destroyers of the peace and happiness of mankind are not to be submitted to, but that a vigorous warfare is to be waged against them to their ultimate overcoming; that this victory is not to be won by the weapons of material warfare, but through spiritual means, through consistent and persistent adherence to the truth of God's omnipotence and allness and an equally forceful denial of any and all claims of evil to place or power.
There
are many who wonder why so long a period should have been given to the moral and spiritual education of the Hebrew nation by means of forms, ceremonies, and sacrifices.
He
who said that "the true priest and prophet today must be every inch a man and a gentleman," expressed a clear discernment of the world's forever need.
Unique in that the splendid edifice has been erected entirely by "thank-offerings" and through none of the usual ways employed by church building committees to raise money, Second Church of Christ, Scientist, on the East Grand boulevard, just off Jefferson avenue, will open its doors for the first time on Sunday [Nov.
Cecile Lorraine
with contributions from Cornelis van Rennes, A. F. van Rennes, Sr., Editor, J. E. van der Meulen
On my way home from a Thanksgiving service I particularly regretted that I had not been among those who had taken advantage of the opportunity to render thanks to God for all the blessings received since coming into Christian Science.
Moved by a genuine spirit of gratitude to Christian Science for the prompt recovery of our child, then aged seven months, from what seemed to be certain death, we most joyously send this testimony.
Although I have been enabled to overcome many ills through Christian Science, and have felt the joy and peace which come from a faithful study of it, I recently became worried and unhappy, in fact the clouds of error seemed to shut out the light of Truth.
Before I became interested in Christian Science I had been a slave nearly all my life to fear and worry, and I do not think two harder masters can be found.
May I be permitted from this most westerly port in India to join in the chorus of thanksgiving and pean of praise resounding through the world and reechoing far and wide the boundless heartfelt gratitude of thousands who have been benefited corporeally and spiritually through the potent instrumentality of Christian Science.
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