There was completed at Chicago last week that twelve million dollar home of the Continental and Commercial National Bank, said to be in some respects the largest bank in the world, and in point of deposits the second largest bank in the United States.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
is essentially a religion of rejoicing, Bestowing its blessings of health, happiness, and success upon every earnest and sincere seeker after Truth, it inspires with faith, hope, and confidence as nothing else can.
No
one who has not turned to Christian Science for healing, can understand with what anxiety a seeker after this truth listens to the testimonies of the Wednesday evening meetings.
This
day Truth calls to me to go and findA country in the plains of heavenly peace,And take for sustenance God's loving, kindRemembrances and blessings,—truly, theseWere food and drink for Abraham.
We are in no position to know whether or not "faith-healing cults repudiate sanitation and those preventive measures that have done more for health than medicine," as your editorial of June 6 declares, but we do know that Christian Science does not repudiate them.
When the reverend gentleman quoted in a recent Journal addressed his congregation in behalf of a national department of public health, his remarks were undoubtedly well intentioned.
Under the heading, "Seeing Through Worldly Fog," the pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Selma gave an address in your city in which he asked the question, "Shall we then be tolerant toward Christian Science—that denies the commonest facts, and robs us of the personality of God?
The
many Christian Scientists who have desired to contribute to the relief of those of our people who are enduring the hardships which war entails, will welcome the opportunity afforded by the following letter, a copy of which has been mailed to all the branch churches and societies in the United States:—
In
these days when things political seem to loom largely all over the country, the welfare of the people rightly commands something more than a passing interest from every good citizen.
With the desire to help others who may be groping in mental darkness, I will tell what God has done for me through Christian Science, hoping it may aid them to break the fetters of error and material sense beliefs.
Deep gratitude for the healing of a malignant throat attack compels me to acknowledge the great good that Christian Science has done and is doing for our little family.
Christian Science was first presented to me over seven years ago, after the physician had told me that no medicine would reach my case, as I had inflammation of the left lung.
In the spring of 1911 I was taken severely ill, and was obliged to stay in bed for six weeks, besides suffering from the after effects a long time; but in the spring of 1912, when I had another such attack, accompanied by pleurisy, we turned to Christian Science for help, having in the mean time investigated its teachings.
Since coming into Christian Science I have been helped in so many ways that it would be impossible to tell all in one testimony, but for the benefit of young mothers I am writing this.
I wish to express my gratitude for the innumerable blessings I have received in Christian Science, one of which is the healing of a chronic throat affection that I had had for years.
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