The federal government closed the fiscal year Saturday, June 29, with a surplus of thirty-two million dollars, according to estimates based on incomplete returns from the various sources of revenue the country over.
The
student of Christian Science has not long been engaged in what becomes to him his life's work before he discovers to his surprise that his concept of God has undergone a remarkable change.
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boundless possibilities for helpfulness and happiness are opened to us when, through the teachings of Christian Science, we begin to find the spiritual interpretation of the Scriptures and to search for the spiritual idea back of every human concept or material thing! On <a class="tome-reference"
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has become the custom in Christian Science churches for Christian Scientists in some cases to share their copy of the Quarterly with strangers who come to the services, in others to lend it to these strangers, and the custom is certainly one to be commended, demonstrating as it does a spirit of friendliness and welcome.
In a sermon preached in this city on a recent Sunday from the pulpit of one of the orthodox churches, the announcement was made that Christian Scientists and Unitarians are en route to hell.
The opening at Indianapolis on Sunday [April 7] of a seventy-five-thousand-dollar edifice by the Christian Scientists is another reminder of the rapid and substantial growth of this religious organization.
In your issue for the month of April there is a reference to Christian Science which is, it seems to me, unnecessarily discourteous in tone; but it is something more,—it shows an ignorance of Christian Science so overwhelming that at first it seems scarcely worth while correcting.
In an admirable article redolent with common sense in a recent issue with the heading, "Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise," a kindly reference is made to Christian Science in the following words: "There is a psychological fact at the bottom of it—the fact that the mind has a powerful influence on the body.
Your courteous editorial reference to the recent prosecution of a Christian Scientist in New York for practising medicine without a license should remind us that under such laws Jesus and the apostles would have been required to exhibit a medical license before healing the sick by the purely spiritual means which they employed.
Contrary to the assertion of the author of a paper quoted in your issue of May 18, there is no important resemblance between prevailing Buddhism and Christian Science.
Faith
scatters abroad in the fall its grain,Covering it over with tender care;Nor fears, though with north winds and hurrying snowFierce winter stalks forth from its icy lair.
All
Christian people are supposed to be familiar with the Master's admonition, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness," but not all lay the needed emphasis upon the "first," which relates itself very naturally with the demand found throughout the Old Testament for the rendering to God of all the firstfruits.
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may be assumed that all value the comfort and freedom of health, though many live and deport themselves after a fashion which they could not commend as conducive thereto.
It is a pleasant duty to give even a partial list of the many blessings which Christian Science has brought to me, through the help of a kind practitioner and the understanding of God gained by the study of the Bible and of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
In my early childhood I had a fever which caused a serious impairment of my vision and also produced that condition which is commonly called cross-eyed.
The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
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