Attorney-General McReynolds' first and most important attack on the "hard coal trust" was begun last week in Philadelphia with the filing of the civil suit for the dissolution of the Reading company's control of coal mining and coal-carrying railroads.
In
their long years of wandering from the serfdom of Egypt to the fruition of bright hopes, the experience of glorious realities in the promised land, the children of Israel were often reminded by the inexorable logic of events that they carried with them a sense of enslavement which was as grievous to be borne as were the pains and penalties inflicted by Pharaoh.
Some
time ago I was beset by a sense of forgetfulness, which resulted in a neglect of duty toward a certain person, and as a result of this neglect I was led to expect a financial loss.
The
suburban cars find their way through the dark country roads because of their search-light, which illumines the surrounding objects, and especially the car's own pathway, which is made clear and bright before it.
After reading in the Journal and Republican the report from the Watertown Times concerning a recent death, one might conclude, if the coroner's views in the matter could be accepted, that death was due to failure to have medical treatment, instead of to the disease named by the physicians who performed the autopsy.
In more than a decade of close observation of the progress of Christian Science the writer has read many pulpit and sectarian attacks on the personality of Mrs.
Christian Science has given to mankind the spiritual explanation of how to grasp intelligently the truth about sin's false claim of power in mortal thought.
I have read with considerable interest, and if I may say so, no little satisfaction, the kindly reference to The Christian Science Monitor in a recent issue of your paper.
Quite
recently the attention of passers-by was attracted by the announcement, on a bulletin board at a church door, of a sermon about to be preached, under this title, "Death, God's Gift to Man.
Unnumbered
people, these home-coming days, are bringing back to the "trivial round, the common task," abiding memories of the vacation's indulgence of what they would call a "passion for the sea," and the weariness and possible pain of the months to come will be lessened as winged remembrance bears them again and again to the sunny sand or the pine-clad promontory where they lounged and looked for many a long hour upon that ever-changing, ever-beautiful expanse,—heaven's floor of answering blue.
I feel that it is high time for me to take my pen and enumerate a few of the blessings which have come to me through Christian Science, for if I were to continue to withhold my acknowledgment longer, I should be unfit to receive more.
I hope that this testimony may express, as nearly as possible, my sincere gratitude for the help and guidance I have received, and am receiving, both physically and spiritually, from the study of Christian Science.
To the praise of God, and out of gratitude to Christian Science, I wish to give the following account of my experience since accepting its teachings one year ago.
William G. Mahaffy
with contributions from Nora Mahaffy
It is with greater gratitude than words can express that I give this testimony, trusting it may be of benefit to some one who is searching for the truth that makes free.
When I first called upon a Christian Science practitioner for help, I was suffering from backache, inflamed bladder, and extreme weakness, while the fear of becoming a victim of so-called Bright's disease was great, as a doctor had informed me of this tendency, and my mother soon after this passed on from it.
I found the way to Truth as the result of the healing of my daughter of a severe nervous trouble through Christian Science, and would like to state that I myself have experienced its healing ministration in the instance of a very serious trouble.
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