The Keokuk & Hamilton Water Power Company, whose gigantic dam across the Mississippi river was recently completed, together with officials of the war department, are involved in an investigation by a committee of the House of Representatives, which the conservationists will try to have ordered as soon as Congress comes together.
"Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright," sang the psalmist; and James tells us that "whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
It
is probable that at some time or other most Christian Scientists pass through a period when they imagine that some material step is demanded of them, some coming out from the midst of their customary surroundings, in order that they may be the more "endued with power from on high.
In
all our study of Bible history we find that the great insistence throughout the ages has been for men to be acquainted with God, and the promise of all life and blessedness has been named as the reward for so doing.
If it be true, as stated by the editor of the New York Christian Advocate, in remarks quoted in a recent issue, that "vague ideas" taught in some of the churches have turned thousands of persons to Christian Science, is it logical or reasonable to assume that this is discreditable to Christian Science?
The crowded meeting in the Town Hall on Tuesday night to hear Professor Hering's address on Christian Science is a proof of the great public interest in that subject, and amply justifies our fully reporting his address in the current issue of the City News.
If one will stop for a moment to consider the meaning of the term Christian Science, the justification for so designating the movement, by its Founder, Mrs.
In
some of the branch churches, especially at the time at which changes in officers are to be made, there often seems to be a great perplexity in regard to the eligibility of certain persons for certain offices.
The
word redemption, as understood in Christian Science, gains new significance and value as the spiritual process indicated by It becomes better understood.
The
vigor and commercial progressiveness of the western world, the abandon with which great business enterprises are entered into, and the ever-increasing habits of luxurious living with their multiplying demands for sense excitation,—all these certainly tend to relegate the cultivation of the meditative mood to the background.
It is with a heart overflowing with gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me, and for what it is still doing, that I give this testimony.
I gladly join other grateful ones in witnessing to the benefits which it has been my privilege to enjoy in Christian Science, with the hope that my experience may prove a blessing to some of my fellow beings.
It is with the hope that my testimony may help and encourage some one else that I gratefully tell how Christian Science has healed me, physically, morally, and spiritually.
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