Convinced that there are thousands of acres of waste land in the commonwealth of Massachusetts which can be employed best in growing timber, the state forester, and other experts, are meditating the question of securing state forests.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
is sometimes spoken of by its students in such a manner as to give the impression, to those who do not understand its method, that it is capable of being used to further one's business or financial interests.
There
is a tendency among mortals to be easily satisfied with their own efforts; satisfied to have tried to do well; contented in a self-complacent fashion with the fact that they meant well, that they had only the best of motives or purposes.
In
the twenty-third chapter of Exodus we are commanded, "Thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
In
the marvelous unfoldment of Christian Science we learn that cause and effect are spiritual, not material, and the claim of mortal mind that they pertain to matter, evil, and false mentality, is untrue and therefore already obsolete.
The writer in your paper thinks it incredible that sickness should be healed "by the continual repetition of words such as wisdom, eternal Love and Truth.
I have read a letter that appeared in a recent issue, in which a reference of a decidedly wild nature, if I may be permitted to say so, is made to Christian Science, and all this on the report that a place of worship is to be let to some Christian Scientists.
Those only are confused respecting the teaching of Christian Science as to death who choose to ignore the explicit distinction made between spiritual manhood and the man of material sense.
According to history, the practise of medicine antedated the Christian era, but neither before nor since have material methods of healing equaled the method of Jesus of Nazareth nineteen hundred years ago.
Noticing in the Colonist the letter by "A Truth Seeker," which refers to statements that occurred in a recent lecture on Christian Science, with your permission I will reply.
It
is somewhat surprising that after two thousand years of Christianity the admission should be made by professed Christians that fear practically dominates the human race.
Thomas J. Curran
with contributions from Belle M. Curran
I am so grateful for the help received through reading the testimonies in the Sentinel that I am impelled to send my own, with the loving hope that seekers for the truth may be helped thereby.
With hearts overflowing with gratitude for the many blessings we have received as a family since coming into Christian Science, now over three years ago, we feel that we should no longer withhold an expression of gratitude which might encourage some other poor sufferer who is searching for health and happiness as we were.
Recently, upon reading some particularly interesting testimonies of healing, I recalled these words from our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
I feel it a duty, as one who is trying to follow the teachings of Christian Science, to give this testimony, to express my appreciation and thankfulness for the great good which my family and myself are getting from this wonderful truth which makes us free.
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