There
is no time or place more favorable to the working out of our salvation than just where we find ourselves, for where we are, that is in our own thought, is the only place where God is available as our Saviour.
In
dealing with children and training them to right thinking and doing, no school-teacher begins with the expectation that they will never depart from the path marked out by love and wisdom, or never exhibit traits and tendencies contrary to the law and order which the guide is laboring to instil.
One
of the first results of Christian Science which is manifested in the consciousness of the beginner, is an appreciation of simplicity in all departments of life.
Many
persons marvel at the thought of instantaneous or other healing in Christian Science by so-called absent treatment, when the patient is separated from his practitioner.
In
the old theological teaching, the thought of supply seemed to the writer to be a contradiction and an enigma, based as it was on the supposition that Jesus, a faithful son, was poor, while his Father was rich.
The letter of a clergyman on the subject of Christian Science in a recent issue of your paper covers a considerable number of theological dogmas, any one of which would require almost a separate essay to treat in full.
I have read the letter recently published under the heading "Christian Science," and I fail to see how it can be said that Christian Science is "seeking to press the teaching of Christ into its service," since Christian Science is entirely based upon and cannot be practised without an understanding of the teaching of Jesus.
As
in the long, dark watches of the nightWe fix our gaze to catch a beam,However faint, of morning light,And, waiting, see at last the sun's bright gleam,
The
epistle to the Hebrews is read with deep interest by students of Christian Science, who discern in its teachings an effort to lift thought above a theology expressed in forms and ceremonies, up to a vital religion which makes known "the power of an endless life.
Looking
ahead, one may see the mountain's top a long time before he sees the mountain, and though it may seem near and easily accessible, the experienced climber knows full well of the tortuous and ofttimes stony trail which must be gone over step by step before he can gain the summit.
Starting from a small beginning of two people twelve years ago, First Church of Christ, Scientist, dedicated its new building, which has just been erected on the site at the corner of Sixth avenue west and Rowley street.
In the fond hope that there may be somewhere a reader of the Christian Science Sentinel to whom this story of my life—or a part of it at least—may come as a message, as it were, from the realms of infinite Love, I write this.
Dona Davidson Mercer
with contributions from C. F. Mercer
I am singing in the words of the psalmist, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.
Three years have elapsed since I found Christian Science, and I wish to add this testimony in token of deep gratitude for all the benefits derived therefrom.
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