January 11, 1913
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A decision holding that the Lake Shore & Southern, Chesapeake & Ohio, Hocking Valley, Toledo & Ohio Central, and the Kanawha & Michigan railroads have combined to violate the Sherman antitrust law, has been handed down by the United States circuit court.
It
is a confession of half-heartedness, in seeking the kingdom of God, that we are so easily satisfied with being and doing less than our best.
From
the perspective of mortal vision, the world appears a hopeless jumble.
One
of the compensations of the smoky English town where the writer lives is the spring collection of modern pictures, which is open to the public free during that season of the year, when the promise of life is renewed in many a lesson which these pictures have to tell.
Failing
the spirit of generosity and compassion within, it is well-nigh impossible to recognize, certainly to appreciate, a manifestation of it from without, even when it is personally presented for our consideration.
The reference to Christian Science, in the address by Dr.
To cite the practises of a mesmerist which the critic acknowledges were "only an exhibition of the force of suggestion or the action of the law of faith, over a patient in the impressible condition," as in any degree comparable with the practise of Christian faith and understanding as taught in the Bible and reemphasized by Mrs.
It is unfortunate that the reverend critic should have considered it necessary to attack other Christians in their work for humanity before learning the facts concerning their teaching.
I shall be glad if you will permit me to make a few remarks about the address on Christian Science, recently reported in your columns.
In reply to "A Query to Christian Scientists" in a recent issue of the Continental Times, I wish to say that the intimation about Mrs.
Will you kindly allow me some space in your paper for a few remarks about the "Letter from Paris"?
In his manifest attempt to discredit Christian Science, our critic takes the position that the body is beyond the control of God, and cannot be healed by appeal to Him.
Father
, give me an understanding heart,That I may learn to know myself, and seeWhere I should spurn the wrong and choose the better part,And thus from sinful bondage be set free.
All
Christians are familiar with the petition in the Lord's Prayer which reads: "Give us this day our daily bread," the spiritual interpretation of which is as follows: "Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections".
A thoughtful
reading of the ninety-first Psalm brings one a keener sense of the fitness of the union of truth and beauty, of the expression of the highest ideal in the highest art.
Having received so many benefits from Christian Science, I am earnestly desirous of expressing my gratitude first for the better understanding of God, and of His love for man, which formerly had seemed little more than a beautiful dream.
I have been interested in Christian Science for more than six years, and during that time I have proved it to be a help in every kind of need.
I desire to tell of some of the blessings that Christian Science has brought to our home.
Christian Science has been a revelation to me, and it is a great pleasure for me to testify to its efficacy as a healing and saving agency.
Gratitude for health and happiness gained through Christian Science impels me to send this testimony.
It is with pleasure that I add my testimony to those of many others, to tell of help received from Christian Science.
Being very thankful to God for the benefits received through Christian Science, and thinking that some one may be benefited by reading my testimony, I gladly send it.
It was about two and a half years ago that I first became interested in Christian Science.
I wish to express through the Sentinel my sense of indebtedness to God, and my gratitude to Mrs.
Jesus' words to the father of the little maid, "Be not afraid, only believe," have been a wonderful help to me in the study of Christian Science, for I have learned that fear is indeed one of our greatest enemies.
I would like to relate a recent experience which proved to me the ever-present help of God, divine Truth.
Love is the greatest thing we can give each other.
