The parcel post service between the producers in the rural communities and the consumers in the cities has been declared to be a great success by the post-office department, and its rapid extension, until it shall embrace all of the most important urban centers of the country, has been determined upon.
THE
student of Christian Science is not interested in a future judgment-day, as were those of an earlier period; his time is fully occupied in meeting the requirements of God in the present.
It
is recorded in the books of Moses that "the Lord went before them [the children of Israel] by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light.
Out of the apparent rebuff to the cause of Christian Science inflicted by a New York court decision, which held that a practitioner of that faith who took pay for his services to the sick violated the law, it is probable that real good will come.
A friend has sent me for comment or reply a letter which was printed in the Review of recent date, in which a minister endeavored to justify his statement that Mrs.
Under the headlines "Fees for Christian Science Healing Illegal," you run a press item from New York reporting the decision of the appellate division of the supreme court, sustaining a lower court which convicted a Christian Science practitioner for practising medicine without a license.
The Christian Science organization is strictly religious, and perhaps more so than other organizations because it insists upon the whole garment of Christ instead of merely a part thereof.
One
of the first things realized by those who have come to Christian Science for healing, is that in the process of being healed they have been freed from a great weight of fear which has been as a millstone about their necks.
Mortal
sense has no impulse or tendency that is more subtly debilitating to the spiritual life than that exhibited in the universally prevailing habit of self-excuse.
In
reading the Bible, one is impressed by the numerous references to hills and mountains, these being mainly used to symbolize mental and spiritual exaltation.
About ten years ago I had what was diagnosed as an attack of congestion of the brain, due partly to heat prostration and partly to overwork and worry over an accumulation of troubles.
In writing of the countless blessings that my three years' study of Christian Science has brought, it seems to me that I am writing personally to all who need help.
Christian Science has brought me so many blessings, and brought them so naturally, that I realize their extent only as I look back on former conditions.
It is with a deep and growing sense of gratitude and love that I would speak of the healing and regeneration which Christian Science has brought to me.
I have been receiving the blessings of Christian Science for three years, and I want to send a testimony in the hope that it may help some one to know of this blessed truth.
The
melodies of Love resound todayO'er hill and vale and the maturing field;They tell old truths, e'en of glad beauty's sway,And herald loud the coming of the yield.
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