President Taft in a message to Congress tells how millions of dollars annually can be saved in the operation of the governmental machinery by "economy and efficiency.
In
order that the American citizen may discharge his duty in helping intelligently to preserve inviolate the blessings of our free institutions, it is necessary for him to understand certain fundamentals of government, as the history of this country shows that attempts are made with frequency to procure legislation which is in plain violation of such fundamentals, and that these attempts are made sometimes from selfish and unpatriotic motives and sometimes through ignorance and narrow-mindedness.
While
reading in the first epistle of John, the writer came across the familiar verse: "Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth;" and was reminded of an experience which not only proved the practicability of the above Scripture, but also showed her that "whatever blesses one blesses all".
It
is interesting to note that nearly every student of Christian Science will, when describing how he first became interested in this subject, use some such words as these, "I remember the first Wednesday evening meeting," or, "At the first testimony meeting I attended," and then go on to describe the particular testimony or feature of the service which arrested his attention and caused him to look more closely into the teachings of Christian Science.
The
discoveries of physical science are readily accepted because they find corroboration in experience, and the tendency of the times is to demand like confirmation for every theory offered for the acceptance and guidance of mankind.
In
John the Baptist's announcement of the forthcoming Saviour, he says, "Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Long
years I spent in searching after God!I found Him not in pleasure or in strife;Perceived Him not behind the chastening rod,For I believed that matter harbors life.
In my previous letter I was compelled to select, out of the vast area of Christian doctrine, some touchstone, to borrow a phrase from the text of the New Testament, by which to test the soundness of a critic's assertion that Christian Science was not Christian.
In a recent issue of the Herald appeared some extracts from a sermon delivered in your city by an evangelist, in which unfriendly mention is made of Christian Science and of its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy.
When a certain clergyman speaks of Christian Science as a "new fad," as reported in a recent issue, and classes it with other "new fads" of the time, he quite overlooks or else is ignorant of the fact that Christian Science has been an established religion for nearly forty years.
The control of one human mind by another, or anything in the nature of such practice, is the reverse of the teaching and practice of Christian Science, which declares, as did the apostle James, that the same fountain cannot send forth both sweet water and bitter.
The author of the sermon partially reproduced in a recent issue so frankly acknowledged the good that is being accomplished by Christian Science in leavening popular thought on subjects of vital importance to mankind, that it is difficult to believe he intended to say that the church and Christian Science have "divided the ministry of faith from the ministry of healing," or that "Christian Science has materialized the ministry of healing;" for if there is anything that Christian Science has not done it is those two things.
Christ Jesus
effectively portrayed both the privilege and the need of mankind in his teaching that freedom and well-being are to be gained by increase of knowledge.
There
are no Christian people who give greater prominence to the Lord's Prayer in their devotions than do Christian Scientists, and respecting it their Leader says that it "covers all human needs".
Probably the most impressive structure devoted to religious uses erected in Chicago in present years is the edifice of Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist, just completed at the northeast corner of Michigan boulevard and Forty-fourth street.
These words of Christ Jesus, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," were proved true by my healing eleven years ago in Christian Science.
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