Among
the many revelations which Christian Science is bringing to light is the truth that direct communication with God, instead of being a miraculous occurrence experienced by a select few and during a limited period of time, always has been and always will be the privilege of each and all of God's children.
After
long years of prayer,—prayer sometimes little short of agony, but which resulted in almost or quite nothing,—the writer has grown to recognize the fact that the failure of his prayer to win the result of answer lay in his failure to understand man's relation to God.
My
God, no human touch I crave,But oh, may I Thy presence feel,Closer than clasped hands,In selfless love that stretches wingO're fear-bound hearts, and works to heal!
One of the greatest of European statesmen, speaking of the Bourbons after the Restoration of 1815, declared that they had learned nothing, and they had forgotten nothing.
It is but natural that as a doctor and churchman your corresponded "Medicus" should disagree with the teaching of Christian Science on the subject of healing sickness and of overcoming sin; but we find this in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures".
The Morning Union recently contained a sermon, delivered at the Congregational church, purporting to be an exposition of Christian Science, in which the minister alludes to the "Christian Science Bible.
In a recent review, in the Republican, of Edouard LeRoy's book, "The New Philosophy of Henri Bergson," mention was made that there is a similarity between the ideas of Bergson and those of Mrs.
I have read with some interest the report of the Christian Evidence conference which appears in a recent issue, and may I be allowed to say a word on one point mentioned by Canon Masterman?
That
the normal Christian life means steady growth, would appeal to most people as logical if not axiomatic; and if they were asked the meaning of growth, practically all would approve the saying that "the Christian man should grow as grows the tree.
To the student of Christian Science the Scriptures take on a new meaning and make strong demands for unhesitating obedience to statements of truth which were formerly passed over as having no vital relation to the working out of our present-day problems.
It will interest and please the field to know that The Christian Science Publishing Society has acquired from The Concord Publishing Company all right, title, and interest to the publishing and selling of "The Life of Mary Baker Eddy" by Sibyl Wilbur, and that this book is now published exclusively by The Christian Science Publishing Society.
It is some years since I first heard of Christian Science, and I have often felt how much I should like to tell others of all the joy and peace it has brought into my life.
At the present time there come to my mind two pictures of myself, one as I was before I took up the study of Christian Science, and the other after my coming into the true understanding of God and man.
I am so thankful for what Christian Science has done for me that I only wish all who pass through this most trying ordeal could have the help which I experienced.
I send this testimony with a heart filled with thankfulness to our heavenly Father for the new knowledge I have gained of Him through Christian Science, and for the good that has come to me and mine.
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