It is proposed to bond the state of Pennsylvania for fifty million dollars to be used in constructing highways connecting county seats and other important points.
The
Founder of the Christian Science movement has so effectively pointed out the unreason and the dangerous sophisms of pantheism, that there might seem to be little excuse for saying anything further on the subject.
In
the twenty-fourth chapter of Exodus we read: "And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Novices
in Christian Science need to be on their guard against the notion that their new-found freedom of thought gives them license to discuss grave theological problems in a flippant manner, and in no other matter is greater care needed, on the part of beginners, than in speaking of Christ Jesus.
The
often quoted words, "Believe nothing you hear and only half you see," carry more truth than one at first thought generally believes, if applied to material things,—the things we are taught to believe are real,—the things of this world.
I seek
for Thee, O Truth, I seek for Thee!As thirsting creatures to the fountain flyAnd earth-dimmed eyes strain for the cloudless sky,So my heart longs its need to satisfy.
The author of the sermon partially reproduced in the Herald so frankly acknowledged the good that is being accomplihsed by Christian Science in leavning 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.
We are inclined to believe that the critic failed to appreciate the essential discrimination made by our Saviour in referring to his dual personality between the Christ, the Son of God, and the man Jesus, or the human, corporeal sense of God's man.
If Christian Science is the scientific interpretation of the teachings of Jesus, its future needs no particular human personality to keep it true or to bring it before the world.
When Mary Baker Eddy passed away it was predicted by many that the Christian Science church had reached its greatest influence and would, by reason of her absence, decline as rapidly as it had risen.
It
is worthy of note that the first declaration of the mission of Christ Jesus to the children of men, as recorded in the New Testament, is that "he shall save his people from their sins;" and as we follow him through his brief ministry it is made clear that the primary purpose of his coming was the awakening of mankind to universal salvation, to a recognition of the at-one-ment of God and man, and the leading of humanity through progressive steps to that knowledge of God which he said was "life eternal.
We
are living in the "wireless age," when the known flight of electric impulse through the vastness of space gives us firmer foothold for faith, since it makes a limited sense of the amplitude of Truth's redemptive radition seem the more incongruous and out of keeping.
I have always been a lover of the Bible, and as a result engaged actively in church work, and was a Sunday school superintendent for ten or twelve years.
I am very happy to tell my fellow men and seekers after Truth of the good which I have received through Christian Science as given to the world by Mrs.
As a result of exposure in a severe storm when about the age of twelve, I experienced a serious illness, which left me in delicate health, a condition that continued during the remainder of my schooldays and for several years after I entered upon the work of teaching.
The Sentinel is ever welcomed by me with joy, and as I am always anxious to pass it on to comfort another hungering heart, through it I would like to send a few words of cheer as a slight expression of my gratitude for this divine Science.
When I read the testimonies in our periodicals, I think of the many blessings which I have received through Christian Science, since I first became interested in it, over four years ago.
Christian Science has been a great help in our family for the past five years, in cases of rheumatism, tubercular disease, hay-fever, and curvature of the spine; other ills have also been overcome by the faithful application of the teachings of Christian Science.
After having had twelve physicians work on my case of severe stomach trouble, and after spending months in a sanitarium and weeks in a hosptial, I decided to investigate Christian Science.
Love's
eyelids never close,All good God sees;Love's ears can only hearLife's harmonies;Love's mouth uncloses onlyThe truth to speak,Whose perfume spreads abroadTo charm the meek.
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