I was a passenger on the steamship Titanic which sank in mid-ocean on April 14, 1912, and I am convinced that if it had not been for the knowledge of Christian Science, and the application of such knowledge to overcome conditions of fear and danger, my name would now be on the list of the missing.
The first good roads bill to be introduced in the House of Representatives is that which has just been presented by Chairman Shackleford, chairman of the roads committee.
A NOTEWORTHY
contribution which Christian Science has made in behalf of the spiritualization of mankind, is the work it has accomplished in fixing our gaze, not upon corporeality, but upon spiritual being.
As all are supposed to know the value of system in the affairs of life, we should at once see the importance of it in the greatest of all affairs, that of gaining a better understanding of Truth.
Every
line of human activity may, in its every-day incidents and conditions, offer to the student of Christian Science analogies at once interesting and helpful.
I THANK
thee, Father! O that I might knowThe meaning of those gracious words, that flowFrom humble hearts up to the eternal fountOf Love; and thence, returning, do anointThe brows of pain with peace, and to the gloomOf earth-bound prisons bring light's balm and bloom!
A recent critic, who signs himself "A Student of History," presents five dilemmas, which he hopes, I imagine, rather than expects, I shall be unable to reply to.
The gentleman of the medical fraternity who attacked Christian Science in a recent issue, objects to it because it teaches the fallibility of the material senses.
Without
any disparagement of the good things directly within their own sphere of action, and the multitudinous efforts for social betterment which the churches find themselves called upon to advocate from their pulpits, we quote as follows from an editorial which appeared recently in the Kennebec Journal of Augusta, Maine:—
With
most of us, especially those who are no longer children, Christmas is a retrospective season, and we are apt to compare the past with the present, possibly to indulge in vain regrets for the days that are gone, when perchance the good we then had was little appreciated.
The
greatest possible contribution to the settlement of theological problems is found in the teaching of Christian Science that the rational and demonstrably true interpretation of the Scripture must in every instance begin with God, and that it must consent to no concepts which are out of harmony with His ideal and infinite nature.
I wish to express my thanks for having been able to get Christian Science treatment for our son, ten years of age, when he developed a case of measles.
Before Science and Health came to me, my faith in the promises of God, though they were not fully understood, sometimes brought peace, and as a girl I prayed for a brother whom our good doctors expected to pass away within seven hours.
I would like to tell of my experiences in Christian Science, for I have a great sense of joy and gratitude for having been led to find the truth which makes us free.
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