Arbuckle Brothers have written a letter to Senator O'Gorman asking him to help pass a Senate bill placing sugar on the free list and saying that the present tariff costs the people of the United States between one hundred and one hundred and fifty million dollars a year, while it enriches the Havemeyers, the Mormon church, the American Sugar Refining Company, and speculators in the common stock of the American Beet Sugar Company.
The
way we look at things is largely responsible for the courage or the fear, the confidence or the doubt, with which we meet the demands or the difficulties that arise in human experience; hence to have the right point of view is an essential factor in working out one's problems.
The
word "discretion" is explained by Webster as meaning "wise conduct and management; cautious discernment, especially as to matters of propriety and self-control.
Christian Scientists
who formerly belonged to some one of the other religious denominations, or to the unorganized body of unbelievers, speak and think of the time when they "came into Science" as the great turning-point in their lives.
While
meditating recently upon the familiar statement that as a man thinketh "so is he," a little occurrence of several years ago came into my mind, as if to help me to a better understanding of both the immediate and far-reaching import of the foregoing words.
In the course of events, when critics had about exhausted the epithets at their command and it was still desired to continue "calling names," it occurred to some one to apply the words "modern witchcraft" to Christian Science, but unfortunately for the one who chose the epithet, as well as for those who borrowed it, it does not in any sense apply to Christian Science.
Christian Science stands for the scientific elucidation and explanation of primitive Christianity, and adheres to the divine law of life inaugurated by the Master.
In a recent issue I find mention of a religious meeting at which one of the speakers took occasion gratuitously to criticize Christian Science, stating, "No, sir; I don't believe in any of that stuff.
Forth like a rivulet flows love unfeigned From lofty summits of a pure desire,Where snows are softened by a radiant fire,Then dews celestial on the steeps have rainedAnd springs from hidden depths the light have gained:Down from the lonely peak where souls aspireAnd see and hear the hosts' victorious choir,Down with the joy of freedom well attained.
In
the report of the clerk, read at the annual meeting of The Mother Church, June 3, was this significant paragraph: "Our records show that during the year approximately 740,000 persons have attended lectures on Christian Science given by the various members of our board of lectureship.
That
the realm of physical feeling harbors all mankind the bulk of the time, and the bulk of mankind all the time, is no less true than that the teaching of the Master and the hope of eternal life demand that we shall learn to live not in the feeling which registers the rule of material sense, but in the knowing which speaks for the dominion of spiritual sense.
The dedication of First Church of Christ, Scientist, on North Oakdale avenue, occurred Sunday [April 21] and was attended by a large and attentive congregation.
It has been found necessary to postpone the date when copies of the German translation of Science and Health can be delivered, until some time in July, owing to the amount of labor involved in the composition and proofreading.
With a heart full of gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me in the ten years that I have been learning to know God as "a very present help in trouble," I give the testimony of my daughter's healing.
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