All thirty-three so-called Cunningham Alaska coal land claims, involving alleged fraudulent blanket patents which contributed to the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy, have been disposed of finally by the interior department.
WHAT
Bible-reading child has not expressed the longing, "If Jesus were only here now! If only I could do the works that he did !" Suppose that to such a child in days gone by the Master had appeared, saying, "Come, follow me.
WHEN
, through the teachings of Christian Science, a first glimpse is had of the radical mental transformation necessary for the working out of our salvation, a sense of loneliness and isolation sometimes seems to spread like a mist, making the way obscure and progress slow and laborious.
THE
directions contained in the Manual of The Mother Church are for protection and upbuilding of the cause of Christian Science, and for the guidance and assistance of each individual Scientist as well.
How often we say and hear it said, "I have no time;" or, "I should like to read and study more, but I have no time," or, "If I had time I should like to write for our periodicals.
Many
of us have had periods in our journey heavenward when spiritual perception has so illumined the way that we have been enabled to read an object-lesson in what seem to be the smallest events in daily experience.
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In thanking your correspondent for his very interesting letter, I would like to say this in connection with the ancient Greek philosophies, that truth, the whole of truth, has been with us throughout eternity.
You say "there has been no good argument so far to convince the world generally that God permitted man to discover wonderful remedies if He intended us to depend upon prayer alone.
Referring to an address before the graduates of the Burnham hospital training school, reported in a recent issue, permit me to say that the speaker is evidently misinformed as to the beliefs and practises of Christian Scientists.
It would be quite impossible to attempt to deal with the strange array of statements contained in our critic's letter, for he has followed that fatal course of quoting, or misquoting, isolated sentences, separated from their context, which therefore prove nothing.
One
of the most common and yet in a way most unexplainable misunderstandings of Christian Science, in view of its continued and multiplying demonstrations of the truth it teaches, is that it is but a system of mind-cure, in which the healing is supposedly effected by "concentrating" the thought of the practitioner, and correspondingly "distracting" the thought of the patient.
So much of history and of personal experience witnesses to the sordid commonplaceness of men, their apparently contented absorption in selfish satisfactions, that it is not difficult to account for the cynical skepticism which accepts the naturalness of the ignoble, and acts habitually on the assumption that "every man has his price.
As one goes through the streets of any of the older American cities at this period, he cannot help noticing the work which is being done in the removal of certain buildings to make way for other and presumably better structures.
with contributions from Robert Nimmo, Jr., G. Warre Cornish, Frederick D. Bates, G. M. Giffin, W. T. Macleod
The new Christian Science church building was taxed to the limit of its capacity by an audience which evidenced great interest in the lecture on Christian Science delivered by Clarence C.
I wish to add this testimony to those of the thousands who have been healed in Christian Science, and who have been made to see "a new heaven and a new earth" through the workings of a truth that is as eternal and omnipresent as the Father Himself.
When I first came to Christian Science, about twelve years ago, I knew absolutely nothing about it, and cared very little what it was, if it only brought me relief from rheumatism, from which I had suffered many weary years.
When we know of a disease having been healed in Christian Science which physicians pronounce incurable, such as locomotor ataxia, or creeping paralysis, I feel the testimony should be given.
Seven years ago one of our little girls, aged two and a half years, was healed of a supposedly incurable disease of the kidneys by Christian Science treatment, and this led my husband and myself to take up the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
For the benefit of any who may be in the same state under which I was, and in gratitude for the many blessings received, knowing that I owe all to Christian Science, I submit the following testimony.
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