A far-reaching decision upholding the right of patentees to dictate absolutely how their patented articles may be sold by retailers, and declaring legal the inventors' "monopoly" in his selling contracts, was made by the supreme court of the United States last week.
The
wisdom of safeguarding one's mentality, of excluding from it whatever would defile, is apparent from the fact that to the extent one is thinking good he is immune from evil.
In
accordance with the democratic form of government of all Christian Science churches, it is the custom of the board of directors of a branch church to confer with the members on all matters of importance relative to the welfare of the cause, and to solicit their intelligent cooperation in many important matters.
When
the writer was searching in the old theology for a clearer and nearer sense of God, and the ability to realize more of the practical truth of Jesus' words as recorded in the gospels, she was greatly impressed one day by the behavior of a dear little girl of her acquaintance, the daughter of a minister of the town, who was known to many as cherishing a very strong affection for her father, almost to the exclusion of the other members of the family.
When
our desire for Truth is supreme and we turn steadfastly away from the material, a new heaven and a new earth is revealed to us as "in the beginning;" and to every such honest seeker God says, "Let there be light," and there is light.
The ordinary argument against Christian Science is that it is contrary to the evidence of the senses, opposed to common sense, or, as it was put the other day, "a denial of facts which common sense is accustomed to regard as obviously real and self-existent.
The so-called mystery of evil has seemingly baffled theologians and philosophers of all schools and in all ages, yet it is evident that the most mystifying phase of the whole gigantic problem has been, after all, the apparently incomprehensible simplicity of fundamental good.
The fundamental difficulty which many appear to labor under in reference to Christian Science, is the conviction that the evidence of the senses is evidence of actual truth.
Toward
the close of Matthew's gospel we find many trenchant utterances by Christ Jesus which point to the passing of materiality with all its miseries, and the establishment in human consciousness of God's eternal kingdom.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Moscow, has purchased property, and is now occupying its own church building at the corner of 3rd and Jackson streets.
Today, when the public press throughout the world is proclaiming the great achievements of our noble Leader, I wish to bring the simple tribute of two instances of healing that came within my own personal experience some years ago, and which to me illustrate what she has said of our Master's work in "Miscellaneous Writings".
I am awed when I look back and see what divine Love has done for me, and for some time I have had the desire to tell the public my experience with Christian Science.
I wish to express my thanks for all the good I have derived from Christian Science, having been cured of a chronic stomach disorder from which I had suffered for eight years.
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