It is announced that the conferences between Governor Foss of Massachusetts and the New Haven railroad officials will result in a bill in the Legislature providing: First, for the dissolution of the Boston Holding Company and a lease of the Boston & Maine to the New York, New Haven & Hartford.
It
was the early dawn of a bright beautiful day, when, standing on the brow of a hill at one of the Himalayan summer resorts, the writer saw in the distance the white-capped peaks of earth's highest altitudes.
The
mental work of the Christian Scientist, like all that he does, needs constant examination and analysis, because of the persistent tendency of mortal mind to drift into error.
Among
the many blessings which have come to the world through the knowledge of a scientific Christianity, there is nothing perhaps that has given more peace, hope, joy, and courage to the human heart than the change in thought which is brought about by this knowledge in regard to what is called death.
In
preparing a Sunday school lesson on the subject of the third beatitude, I referred to the dictionary, and with this aid some beautiful explanations of its meaning were opened up to me.
A recent issue publishes a letter by one who criticizes my statement that "one is saved by understanding 'the image' of God and conforming his life thereto.
In the course of remarks in a recent sermon Dean Welldon is reported to have expressed his regret that Christian Science should concern itself only with the healing of sickness, and not with the healing of sin.
What does "the higher tribunal of public opinion" have to say about the thousands of deaths from consumption which occur annually under medical treatment?
In a recent issue of the News it was stated that a clergyman addressed the Physicians' Lunch Club, "declaring that physicians and ministers must get together in a campaign to check the growth of Christian Science.
Christian Science conceives of God as infinite personality, but it eschews the idea of applying to Deity the term "personal" in the commonly accepted or finite and corporeal sense.
Christian Science is no creed or religious belief; it is not human opinion, but deals with revealed truth, demonstrable truth, as found in Scripture, and this fact is proven by the results attained when Christian Science is put to the practical test of healing sickness and sin.
A good
many persons fail to distinguish between economy and parsimony, the former being admittedly a virtue which stands for the prudent and orderly management of a household or state, the regulation of expenditure in such a way as to avoid loss or waste.
The handsome new edifice of the Christian Science Society, occupying a prominent location on High street, opposite Union, was declared completed, with the exception of the basement furnishings, and will be opened for public worship tomorrow [Jan.
"Why, it is a practical religion!" These were the words which broke from my lips when a Christian Science practitioner explained to me for the first time this teaching.
I was brought up under the materialistic teachings of natural science, and had been drawn into a busy life thereby; yet in spite of the success which at times seemed to attend my endeavors, I seldom experienced that sense of satisfaction without which my life seemed, as it were, to be lacking in true value.
Christian Science has done so much for me, I feel I must voice my gratitude through the Sentinel, though words are all too feeble to express my thanks.
The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
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