The United States geological survey has just issued the first sheet of the international map of the world, including Rhode Island and portions of New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Nova Scotia.
Because
that which we call God cannot be seen with the eye or touched with the hand, and is in no way materially cognizable, mankind as a rule have come to think of Him as altogether without the range of earthly experience.
Students
of the Bible ever have had before them that commandment designed to emphasize the necessity for truthfulness: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
IN
speaking to a student of Christian Science about the reluctance of a mutual friend to take up a study of the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," these words were used: "He retards his own progress through the arrogance of learning.
IN
the practise of Christian Science it has been found that an attitude of obedience and humility is requisite to bring out a response to treatment, and this attitude is equally essential on the part of the practitioner and patient.
SEEN
in the twilight of an autumn day,With golden lights appearing from within,The pure pale opalescence of its symmetryLooms like some palace of a poet's dreamAgainst the firmament.
In the address of a clergyman, reported in your paper, there is a reference to Christian Science which is so interesting in itself that I am sure you will permit me to say something on the subject.
A recent issue reports in part a clergyman's sermon at the Coffeyville Chautauqua, in which he makes mention of Christian Science as a religious sign of the times, a warning bell, a danger signal.
In the recent comment on Christian Science the inference was made that Christian Science practitioners may assume to have attained that spiritual sense to which death and sin are no longer realities.
In a late issue the writer of the column entitled "A Seasonable Chat" allowed himself to say that the whole truth about Christian Science lies in the fact that people believe just what they wish to believe.
I would be glad of the opportunity to review some recent press references to Christian Science which conveyed mistaken views of the subject, inasmuch as it is on just such incorrect views of the subject, inasmuch as it is on just such incorrect representations that many critics base their secondhand opinions.
Because
the observance of Christmas is so general, it is perhaps natural that there should be many inquiries at this season in regard to this holiday and the place it should hold in the thought of Christian Scientists.
ALL
Christian Science churches are required to have a reading-room where our literature, including the Bible, may be read and studied, or purchased if the reader so desires.
THE
heavens may have seemed brass in many a crucial hour, and yet normal people have never been able to think of God as inaccessible, and Christian Science is blessing all mankind in making His nearness the more apparent and intelligible.
with contributions from Frank A. Clarke, R. M. Williams, J. W. Segrist, Arthur Fosbery, James F. Foster, Edward Ray Inman, Mayor Fiske, John F. Hertlein
A lecture on Christian Science was delivered in the Oliver opera house by Virgil O.
After many physical healings, and the moral and spiritual uplift which Christian Science has given me, I feel that it is time to relate these experiences for the benefit of others who may be suffering in a similar way.
I have been interested in Christian Science for ten years, and was healed of nervousness in its worst form, when physicians said that medicine could not help me.
WHEN
under bright'ning morning skiesTo its day's work the city wakes,And men to all their problems rise,Yet know the Love that ever makesLife's burdens light and strength supplies,There sounds o'er many a busy streetAnd all the human toil above,The chime of bells whose music sweetA message brings of peace and love.
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with contributions from Frank A. Clarke, R. M. Williams, J. W. Segrist, Arthur Fosbery, James F. Foster, Edward Ray Inman, Mayor Fiske, John F. Hertlein