March 22, 1913
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Completion of detailed plans for the Sather Campanile, the beautiful granite tower that is to be erected soon where the University of California flagstaff now stands, has been authorized.
Perhaps
no story in the Old Testament conveys so many or so important lessons to present-day humanity, and especially to those people who have become interested in Christian Science, as does the story of Joseph.
The
light which Christian Science throws on the ten commandments is so illuminating that the limited, material meaning attached to them by the teaching of the schools is changed into what seems an illimitable statement of spiritual law.
Through
the increasing study and practise of Christian Science, mortal thought is undergoing a gradual change of base in its reasoning with respect to every form of human activity and occupation.
The
American people, for the most part, are expressing gratitude for the recent pure food act, which assures protection to dealers and consumers alike by maintaining in Washington a commission whose duty it is to test and pass upon all foodstuffs offered the market.
There
are a multitude of people unacquainted with the teachings of Christian Science whose daily experiences seem to be a series of uncertain, haphazard events over which they can exercise little or no control.
In a sermon against Christian Science reported in a recent issue the gentleman proves himself to be many years behind the times by standing on ground long abandoned by most critics as untenable.
May I be permitted to explain what Christian Science teaches?
Judging from the remarks of a traveling evangelist at Columbus, Ohio, as quoted in a recent issue, the most charitable assumption would be that he does not know what Christian Science is.
A clergyman in an excellent sermon, in which he expresses admiration for the medical profession, for their devotion and courage, which we all heartily endorse, goes on to speak, perhaps not quite so kindly, of Christian Science as a "one-eyed system.
I have read the article entitled "The Doctor Faith-healer" in a recent issue and regret that the writer should have thought fit to include in it statements with regard to Christian Science long since worn threadbare.
The editor of the Empire in one paragraph of his recent attack assures the public that he has no desire to curtail the religious liberty of Christian Scientists, and almost in the same breath announces that Christian Scientists "When going to the extreme of turning down and forbidding all material aids in sickness, should be protected by a statute making this practise misdemeanor if not felony.
It is well that the litigation has ended over the estate of the late Mrs.
As a church Christian Scientists take no action in the matter of a so-called national health department.
It cannot be too widely known that Christian Science has nothing in common with human will-power, and so I ask your permission to correct the statement in a recent issue which would lead the casual reader to imagine that the healing achieved in Christian Science is in some way the outcome of the exercise of such an agency.
President-elect Wilson, in the course of an address to a gathering of social workers at the private house in Hoboken where he was a week-end guest, is reported to have said of the proposal for national supervision of matters of health and sanitation: "Most of the things you have spoken of are without political embarrassment.
To the student of Christian Science who is desirous of gaining a thorough understanding of its fundamental truths, the question of class teaching sooner or later presents itself, and it may be helpful to those whose interest in Christian Science is a comparatively recent one, to know that such teaching had Mrs.
The
tenth chapter of Hebrews presents in a wonderful way the steps taken by mankind in their seemingly slow progress from sense to Soul.
We
can be Christianly scientific or sane only when we honestly seek to meet every known requirement of the divine order.
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The next admission of candidates will be May 30, 1913.
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The Alexandra hall was all but filled with an audience of ladies and gentlemen, who assembled to listen to an address on Christian Science teaching by Bliss Knapp.
Jesus said to one whom he healed, that he should go and tell his friends the great things that God had done for him, and so I wish to tell others what God has done for me through Christian Science.
I am indeed most grateful for Christian Science.
Some time ago I fell on a cement walk, striking violently on my right knee.
On the 14th of November, 1911, my daughter and I were engaged in some house-cleaning work, and I went out of doors with a lot of papers to burn, when in some unknown way my skirts caught fire.
Several years ago I became interested in Christian Science.
I am very grateful for Christian Science, in view of what it has done and is doing for me.
It would be difficult to express my gratitude for Christian Science with words or pen.
I was a great sufferer from asthma for about eighteen years, and after all material remedies and changes of climate failed to help me, or only gave me temporary relief, I was healed in Christian Science.
I am glad to give the following testimony of my healing in Christian Science.
I have long desired to tell what the healing influence of Christian Science has done for me.
I would like to give my testimony as another witness to the physical healing by Christian Science.
I esteem it a duty as well as a privilege to tell others what Christian Science has done for me.
Awake
, sweet lyres of heavenly peace,The morn of Love is breaking clear;The fitful, moaning surges cease,Eternal shores are gleaming near.
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The Christian Science Text-Book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
