The Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association convention, recently in session in New York city, protested against the stopping of work on those Hudson river improvements which are to connect New York city with the barge canal system at Troy, and which are to provide suitable connection from the barge canal to Canada.
Twenty-Three
centuries of readers have had the opportunity to become familiar with the story of Damocles, whom history records as a sycophant in the court of Dionysius, known as tyrant of Syracuse.
Perhaps
few students of Christian Science give their first testimony without a struggle; many may even find it a severe trial, and the difficulty is not always overcome at the first attempt.
To
be absolutely honest requires a discriminating sense of what honesty means, and this can be worked out only by taking the first steps correctly and tilling the ground of material belief until every weed of dishonesty has been uprooted.
That
a grave error was to be guarded against by Christian Scientists in their churches, must have been seen by their Leader, when through the Manual of The Mother Church Mrs.
I've
journeyed in far distant landsWhere the flowers ever bloom,Where the sky is blueThe whole night through,And the royal palmWith stately calmRises from coral sands.
My comment has been requested upon the statement issued by a well-known critic of Christian Science, and reported in the Union, concerning the decision of a New York court in the case of a Christian Science practitioner.
In commenting on a news story from New York in a recent issue of the Reporter, you jump to a wrong conclusion by associating Christian Science with "the unveiling of a gold reliquary to St.
No thinking person will be likely to differ with the conclusions expressed in the excellent editorial in the Dispatch of recent date regarding the way in which victims of the drug habit should be dealt with; but I feel that attention should be called to the fact that Christian Science, while it has proved a complete remedy in numberless such cases, cannot rightly be classed as "suggestive treatment.
In
the thought of many who have but a superficial knowledge of Christian Science, or more correctly speaking, a superficial knowledge that there is a system of healing called Christian Science, is the belief that the healing of sickness is all there is to this teaching.
As
the Bible is studied in the light of Christian Science, we become more and more aware of the fact that the Scriptures must be interpreted spiritually in order to gain a demonstrable sense of their teachings; otherwise, they often seem self-contradictory.
Where
shall the heart find quietness and peace, a satisfying sense of repose, in the midst of the seemingly endless turmoil of human life—how gain that unvarying buoyancy of spirit which will enable one to surmount such a flood of trial and tragedy as that which is sweeping over many of earth's fairest fields today?
I am sending this testimony in the hope that it may help some one who has almost lost hope of ever being well and happy again, as I had when the blessed truth came to me; and to express my gratitude for the many benefits God has bestowed on me through Christian Science.
Minnie Baier
with contributions from Louis Baier, Sr.
Words are inadequate to tell of the bondage from which I have been delivered, and it is with a heart full of thankfulness to God that I give this testimony, in the hope that it will help some one who is athirst in the desert.
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXT-BOOK, "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES.
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