August 3, 1912
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Universal
testimony concerning Christian Science is summed up in a remark recently made by an old friend who is not a Scientist to one who is: "You look younger than you did twenty years ago.
As the tyro in Christian Science imbibes the milk of the Word he finds its sweetness divine and frequently becomes as impetuous as the dust-stained traveler who emerges from a dreary desert to revel rapturously in the cool brooks of the forest.
Lately
it came to me very clearly how true these words of our Leader are: "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need".
The
statement is sometimes made that Christian Science is too good to be true.
To have our knowledge of the Science of being where we can make instant use of it in time of need is a most praiseworthy attainment.
Unreasonable
criticism and complaint darken one's dawning sense of spirituality and stunt one's own growth in Christian Science.
When
reading the ninth chapter of Acts, thought turns involuntarily toward the little group of Christians at Damascus.
The Christian Science Monitor of Boston got out a complete daily edition at Chicago during the Republican convention.
To send the paper instead of the news is a most unusual journalistic feat.
Noticing in the Item of Saturday [June 22] the stories of suffering in the direction of Barataria by victims of the Hymelia overflow, the Christian Science publication committee for Louisiana has delivered to the Item checks to the amount of $315.
Henry Deutsch, a Jew, who some years ago became a Christian Scientist, believes the Hebrew may do this without losing hold on the fundamentals of the old faith.
The address on Christian Science, given by a clergyman and reported in your paper, may be said to have been directed to two issues: first, to a repudiation of the theology of its teaching; and, second, to a criticism of its practise.
For the information of those who may have read the summary of a sermon reproduced in a recent issue, permit me to state that Christian Scientists recognize the phenomena of sickness in human experience as clearly as do other persons, and that they fully agree that "the sick have need of physicians".
It is strange to us that the reverend gentleman, after making such sweeping concessions as he does in admitting "multitudes in every communion have been marvelously healed by more or less direct coming into the presence of God," and knowing, as he must know, something of the all-power of God, should object if the church is "challenged to abaridon all other means and depend solely upon the method of Jesus.
One does not have to accept Christian Science in order to grasp its view-point, and yet this is logically deduced from Jesus' declaration, "God is Spirit".
"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the text-book of Christian Science, takes as its fundamental proposition the omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience of God, as taught by Jesus the Christ, who working from this very basis healed the sick and the sinning more successfully and more certainly than any method of healing that has ever yet been, or ever will be, presented to mankind.
Many
of those who have since become Christian Scientists were much surprised when they first attended a Christian Science church service, to find there was neither personal preacher nor sermon, in the common acceptance of those terms.
Every
intelligent person has some sense of the significance of testimony to our asserted knowledge of the past, and to our judicial attitude toward men and movements to-day.
In
the prophecy of Isaiah we read these beautiful words: "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
It is with a heart full of thanksgiving to God and gratitude to our dear Leader, Mrs.
One afternoon during a recent epidemic of eye trouble in this city, one of my eyes began to be inflamed, and by evening it was manifesting such distressing and painful symptoms that I telephoned to a Christian Science practitioner for help, not forgetting, however, that there was work for me also to do.
After five months of suffering I consulted a physician, and his diagnosis was a malignant disease of the breast.
I am a trained nurse, and my home is in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Twenty-two years ago I first heard of Christian Science, and it found me when I most needed it.
I want to tell of my wonderful healing of severe stomach trouble and sleeplessness.
For a long time I have felt that I should publicly express my gratitude for the many blessings which I have received through Christian Science.
I am very grateful for the healing power of Truth as manifested through Christian Science.
I have a desire to express my gratitude for being healed of numerous ailments through Christian Science.
I am very grateful for what Christian Science has done for me, as I had been an invalid most of the time since I was fifteen years of age.
Christian Science came to me over four years ago.
If I could say something which would help any hungering and thirsting one, longing for rest and peace as I was at one time, I would be glad.
I am very glad to make public acknowledgment of the benefits I have received in Christian Science, in the hope that some one else may be led to the knowledge of the truth.
Within the last three years I have found in Christian Science, as stated in Science and Health, the answer to Pilate's question, "What is truth?
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The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
