Young
students of Christian Science, as well as friends who attend our meetings from time to time, often ask the question, "What do Christian Scientists mean when they say, 'I went to work and made my demonstration'?
Resistance
to Truth—that stumbling-block in mortal existence which works subtly or openly in seeming determination to prevent the release of mortals from their self-imposed enslavement to habits which are opposed to God—is the mainspring of error which operates to turn the neophyte or the disciple from the straight and narrow path of righteousness and lead him into the by-paths of material sense.
While
journeying one time, I was drawn irresistibly to the hills that skirted the quaint old city where I was staying, because of the wonderful brilliancy of the trees, clad in their autumn garments and radiant in the glorious sunshine of the unusually beautiful days of Indian summer.
There is no publication in the country whose praise of the Tribune's new guarantee we value more highly than that of The Christian Science Monitor, from which we quote an editorial [see Monitor, Nov.
It is only necessary to read the daily papers, all over the world, in order to discover that the war is uprooting many of those beliefs which the prophet Isaiah might have termed the idols of the human race.
The feature of your paper entitled "Truth's Saturday Sermon," with its opportunity for presenting the various views of religious truth, seems to be a pulpit from which each speaker may preach the gospel in which he believes.
Having read with interest the different views expressed in your paper by some of Atlanta's good ministers on the "power of prayer" in the present hope for peace, I am led to contribute some remarks on the efficacy of prayer from the Christian Scientist's point of view.
Editor
with contributions from Curt Gentsch, Clerk Second Church, Alice Tournier, William H. Norledge
The
following cablegram and letters bear witness to the appreciation of our brothers and sisters across the sea of the loving-kindness of the Christian Scientists in America, and also to the effective work of William D.
Among
the thousands of testimonies to the efficacy of Christian Science which are given at the Wednesday evening meetings and through the columns of the Sentinel and Journal, not a few are from business men who through the study of this Science have been able to accomplish more, and on better lines, than ever before.
All
thinkers are agreed that if people would consent to deal more with essential truth, not only in religious questions but in those of every-day experience, their differences of opinion would largely disappear.
The
return of the Christmas-tide this year is sure to remind all thoughtful Christians of the heart-saddening incongruity between the sweet song of "On earth peace," that floated down out of the Judæan skies that first Christmas time, and the outcries of passion and of pain attending the present strife among Christian nations.
It has been some time since my first personal experience with Christian Science in 1909, and for the many blessings that have come to me in this time, I wish to give thanks.
With ever increasing gratitude, I would add my voice to the song that is swelling throughout the world today, coming from the hearts of those who have found freedom from bondage through the teachings of Christian Science.
Praise
be to God, and blessed be this day When men, released from the despotic sway Of mortal mind and error's thrall, may rise And climb the mount to Truth's own paradise.
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