The federal government has filed a civil antitrust suit against the Aluminum Company of America which will be the basis for an agreed decree designed to restrain the so-called aluminum trust from monopolizing the manufacture of aluminum and its products, including cooking utensils.
In
commencing the study of Christian Science, and sometimes after one has spent considerable time in the endeavor to grasp its teachings, the suggestion may come to the student that this Science is either hard to understand or that he is not one of the favored few who can understand it and be benefited by it.
One
of the greatest blessings which the understanding of Christian Science unfolds to the earnest and faithful student is the positive knowledge that all right endeavor is rewarded, no matter how much opposition there may seem to be.
When
Jesus pronounced his commendation of the widow's mite he uttered words destined to be of perennial comfort to those whose offerings seem necessarily diminutive.
In
tune with GodHis angels with us fare,No fear of sin or sickness can alarm;Safe folded in His loving careThere's naught can harm:Welcome the chastening rod.
The caustic attack made on Christian Science by an evangelist during his meetings, and the subsequent comments pro and con, led me to make a first-hand investigation into the real tenets of Christian Science to see whether their doctrines were as damnable and unchristian as they have been painted, and as I, too, not long ago believed them to be.
If your contributor had been true to his scholarly instincts, he would have taken care to verify his facts, and so would have avoided making the three serious mistakes which occur in his brief reference to Christian Science, as recorded in your columns recently.
The reverend principal of Westminster Hall, lecturing at Penticton recently, is reported as follows in the Press of March 23: "Christian Science came in for severe criticism by the lecturer, and was described as nothing less than a recrudescence of the great central thought of Buddhism.
In a recent issue a clerical critic offers as evidence that he is qualified to inform the public on the teachings of Christian Science, the fact that he has personally met a " 'healer' fresh from Mrs.
Some
misunderstanding seems to have followed the reports of the recent Central Conference of American rabbis, held at Baltimore last month, to the effect that Jews were being received into membership in the Christian Science church while retaining their membership in the synagogue.
Second Church of Christ, Scientist, which some time ago bought the property at the northeast corner of Delaware and Twelfth streets, announces plans to construct on this ground a church building with a seating capacity of twelve hundred.
Heretofore I have given my testimony of healing through Christian Science verbally in our local church and such other churches as I have visited throughout the country, during my several trips from home in recent years, but it has occurred to me that others might be benefited or encouraged should there be given an account of my experience in one of our periodicals.
With heartfelt gratitude for many blessings received in Christian Science, I commit the following lines to those who may be burdened by sin, disease, poverty, hatred, sensitiveness, or anything outside of harmony, and who are honestly striving to rid themselves of these seeming realities.
The efficacy of Christian Science healing was proven to me in February, 1911, when the gas from the furance escaped in such force that I was overcome by it and fainted.
I am glad to tell what Christian Science has done for me, and it is with a heart full of love and gratitude that I give my testimony, trusting that it may help some one else.
When material remedies failed to cure me I sought the aid of Christian Science, and was healed by reading the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
Elmina A. Potter
with contributions from Pearl Spaulding Clark
From my childhood one severe illness had followed another, although my parents employed the best physicians of various schools and for many years made every effort in a medical way to bring me back to health.
I have a deep sense of love and gratitude to God for the many benefits and blessings and the glorious spiritual healing that have come to my understanding through the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
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