THE
right work for the daily newspaper, in the body politic, is educative and uplifting, and the press at large is slowly coming to a more general recognition of this fact.
IT
has frequently been remarked by those interested in the study of Christian Science, that it throws a wonderful search-light over old and well-loved texts and passages in the Bible, and thus makes it seem a very different book.
I really do not think that our critic need have written a further letter to point out that he and I do not agree on the subject of Christian Science, for, as far as I can see, that is all his letter amounts to.
In the printed report of the Bishop of Liverpool's sermon to the Medical Congress, the preacher, after a preliminary bestowal of uncomplimentary epithets upon Christian Science, declared that it contained a grain of truth.
A recent visiting missioner to Melbourne took occasion to make some platform remarks on Christian Science which ignorance of the subject explained but hardly justified.
Those of your readers who are acquainted with the teaching of Christian Science, and doubtless they are many, will attest the fact that it is a "short cut" only in the sense that it follows from cause to effect in a way which is at once direct of effective; but to acquire a demonstrable knowledge of Christian Science requires earnest application as well as persistence and perseverance.
HARK!
a voice of gentle sweetness Whispers to the listening ear, Bringing joy and peace and gladness, Faith and hope instead of fear.
WITH
the superficial observer, Christian Science and faith-healing are apt to be rated as one and the same, and it is for this reason that Christian Scientists are sometimes called upon the explain the difference between their practise and that which is ordinarily termed faith-cure.
ALL
students of Christian Science are familiar with the words of the "explanatory note" found on page 4 of our Quarterly, and read at every Sunday service before the Lesson-Sermon begins.
THE
saying of a recent Christian writer, that "the only theology which is likely to last is one that admits a large degree of Christian agnosticism," may prove rather startling to some, since it seems to link faith and unbelief in a way which is altogether incongruous.
I was always sick from infancy, my earliest recollection being of a recovery from illness, when I was assisted to walk about the room by a brother and a sister.
With a grateful heart I acknowledge the multiplied blessings which I have received through Christian Science, but to express this fully is well-nigh impossible.
Before coming to Christian Science all I had known had been suffering, pain, hope deferred, ambition disappointed, and an unsatisfied longing to know that to which I could find no answer.
The first proof which I had that Christian Science is the Christ-way of healing disease, and that "the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear," came to me about two years ago.
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