The department of justice is on the point of beginning a second great suit against the Southern Pacific railway and its transferees for the recovery of thousands of acres of oil land in Southern California.
To every one working out the problem of life there come periods when the demand for progress is so insistent that the human sense shrinks from the task presented.
After
hours of random search through the Bible and Science and Health in quest of surcease from perturbed thought, the writer came across this terse sentence from our text-book: "We are not Christian Scientists until we leave all for Christ".
The
writer was once asked when she most clearly realized or understood the fatherhood of God, and she answered, almost unconsciously, "When I am grateful!" The inquirer, however, did not seem satisfied with this answer, but appeared to think that most people's experience, including her own, was that they were able to get closer to God when in trouble.
It
is not unusual to hear from inquirers the comment that "of course among Christian Scientists, as among members of other denominations, one must expect to meet with diverse interpretations of the truth, since people never all think alike.
Repression
dwarfs and warps the sunniest nature, interferes with one's freedom of thought and action, and though on the surface of things its victim may appear quite natural, in his heart of hearts he knows that he is very far from living up to his capabilities, and this in itself is a thought that stings.
I was greatly interested in reading in your esteemed paper the views on mental healing which were set forth in a report from the British committee, including medical practitioners, physicians, neurologists, alienists, etc.
The great strength and unanswerable logic of Christian Science is based upon the fact that those who approach it are not asked to accept it because somebody else says so or because it is so written.
It is a fact susceptible of easy confirmation that while no people on earth as a class are more healthy, no people on earth as a class consider physical health of less relative importance than do Christian Scientists.
Our
attention has been called to the following specially pertinent question and answer, which recently appeared in the editorial columns of The New York Farmer, published at Port Jervis, N.
The
second commandment is the subject of much study on the part of Christian Scientists who cannot accept any Scriptural teaching "in the oldness of the letter," to quote St.
The
one condition of thought from which the efficiency of the Christian worker imperatively demands he shall be free, is a state into which he is constantly tempted to fall, namely, discouragement.
I have for so many years silently accepted the benefits which Christian Science has brought me, that I think it is high time I expressed a word of gratitude.
For years I have been the recipient of many blessings, brought into my life through a slight understanding of the truth as taught in Christian Science, that God is Mind, "the universal cause, the only creator," and that "evil is not Mind".
About the last of August, 1910, I met with an accident, an experience which has fully proven to me the value of Christian Science as an ever-present help.
The reading of a testimony in the Sentinel has made me realize that I have been neglecting my duty in not offering my own before this time, so I send it with the prayer that it may be the means to lead some other sufferer to the source of all blessedness.
On the 16th of April, 1909, a few days after the ice had gone out of Minnehaha creek, my little boy, not yet four years old, went down to the creek alone and fell in.
For fourteen years I have lived in and near Mill Valley, and during all this time, with the exception of the last year, when I took up the study of Christian Science, I was a sufferer from colds and throat trouble.
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