Governor Tener of Pennsylvania has approved the bill recently passed by the Legislature providing for county systems of pensions for mothers under the administration of a commission of from five to seven women to be named by the Governor for each county availing itself of the provisions of the law.
When
one finds that another is entertaining a belief which differs radically and yet honestly from his own, and that one deems it worth while to consider the reasons for the difference, it is useful to compare the points of view.
Ever
since the fruit from the "tree of knowledge" was first eaten, the world has taken upon its shoulders the responsibility of designating the right and wrong of human belief.
Christian Science
teaches that in order to comprehend God aright, and to understand our divine sonship, our eternal unity with God, thought must be freed from false trusts and the erroneous conclusions resulting therefrom.
When
we first begin to work in Christian Science, we find a task confronting us which requires unbounded patience and persistence, the task of replacing the slovenly, illogical, confused, sinful thoughts and thinking processes of the carnal mind, by the orderly, logical, right thinking of divine Mind.
The critic made use in his first letter of two specific arguments: the antagonism of Christian Scientists to doctors, and their insistence on the unreality of evil and matter.
In a recent issue there appears a letter by a member of the medical profession which without warrant in fact misrepresents the teachings of Christian Science.
My attention has been drawn to a letter appearing in the Sind Gazette regarding the experience of one of the officers of the Titanic at the time the vessel was wrecked, in which the question is raised as to whether people believing in Christian Science alone are saved from harm.
In my first letter in answer to the critic I pointed out that he had most seriously misrepresented the teachings of Christian Science on the very important question of sin.
Every
thoughtful husbandman lives with the poets, past and present, in wonderland, and in all his copartnerships with nature he is never more impressively reminded of his high calling than when, scions and grafting tools in hand, he opens new channels for the burgeoning life of the spring-awakened trees.
There are thousands of people today who rejoice in having found Christian Science, who have been healed through knowing the truth; and I am happy to be counted among them.
After having studied the Bible for some time, and compared its ideals and requirements with the lives of professed followers of Christ Jesus, which with few exceptions did not seem to me to come into line with it, I became quite dissatisfied with the church as it exists, and on this account could not connect myself with any particular branch of it, but went in search of an ideal one, going the whole round, staying some time in each, but receiving very little satisfaction.
My first introduction to Christian Science was when a friend, the wife of a physician, showed me the definition of God in the text-book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
It is with a heart full of gratitude for the numerous blessings which have come into my life since I first gained a knowledge of Christian Science, that I send this testimony.
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