September 7, 1912
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We
should be unceasingly grateful that Christian Science fixes our thought upon the permanence of all that is good and real.
It
is often said of one who is passing through some seemingly hard experience, that it will be a test of his character; that he will stand or fall as he manifests strength or weakness.
Biblical
history informs us that Samuel established a school of the prophets; we are also told that these learned men instructed the people in a higher knowledge of spiritual things, and that often the message given them was in direct opposition to their own wish or desire.
During
the Master's last long talk with his disciples on the memorable occasion before the final scene in the garden of Gethsemane, he uttered these words: "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me.
That
childhood and youth are periods of mental as well as physical growth, is a commonly conceded fact.
In Old Doornfontein, at the corner of Smit and Banket streets, to the west of the upper part of the little municipal park that is intersected by the tram-line, is a miniature stone-built, red-roofed church.
It is a curious fact that a well-known clergyman, in preaching a sermon on the text, "What is truth?
The committee of one hundred is working hard to secure the organization of a federal health bureau, against which some opposition has developed on account of the fear that it would pass into the hands of a certain school of medicine and would be abused by the doctors of that school.
The misconceptions of Christian Science recently given out in your city by a visiting revivalist should be corrected, for no intelligent community desires to be inaccurate in its concepts of what is going on in the world, but prefers that the actual facts be presented clearly and in order.
In responding to your request for an expression as to what I think would hasten universal peace, I can possibly best preface my remarks by quoting the reply of Jesus to the lawyer who asked him this question: "Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
In a recent communication in your paper a writer presents his views upon the inability of Christian churches to hold the people's interest.
Our critic's use of the familiar quotation "There is nothing new under the sun" suggests the need of a correct viewpoint in order to discern its meaning.
One
of our contemporaries—an organ of one of the oldest religious bodies—recently said, in a discussion of the works of spiritual healing which are being done outside the pale of such religious organizations as the one it represents: "None of these cults have any ecclesiastical sanction, and yet they are undertaking to do what the church in the earlier days carried forward as a part of the gospel mission, bringing healing to the body as well as peace to the mind, and salvation to the soul, and so promoting a 'wholeness without which no man shall see the Lord.
Literature
presents no finer appeal to schooled manliness than that found in the sixth chapter of St.
While living in Concord, N.
When I think of the many times that the truth has overcome error in my experience since I began to study Christian Science, I am filled with gratitude.
Nearly two years ago a serious accident befell my son.
As a last resort I gave Christian Science a trial, after four years of helplessness caused by an accident, resulting in serious injuries.
I can testify to having been healed over two years ago through Christian Science treatment.
It is with a sense of the deepest gratitude, which cannot be expressed, that I cast this "bread upon the waters" in acknowledgment of what the understanding of Truth, as taught by our beloved Leader, Mrs.
It is over six years since I began to read the Christian Science literature, and I have for some time felt a desire to express through one of our periodicals my gratitude for this healing truth.
I give this testimony in loving gratitude for all the good that has come to me through Christian Science, and in love to our revered Leader who stood firm for the truth.
It is over five years since I began the study of Christian Science, and it was through the reading of the Journal and Sentinel that I found the truth which makes us free.
Article
The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
