The
attitude of Christian Science toward the broad question of health preservation is not as yet well enough known to have gained for it that measure of general approval and cooperation which it is safe to predict will be accorded it in the near future.
Nothing
strikes the student of Christian Science more forcible than the necessity of constantly comparing the standard of his thought with that demanded by Truth.
I had
gone one day to call on a friend living near, and as she walked down the drive with me on my homeward way, she told me of a little difficulty which had arisen in her household and which was causing considerable inconvenience to some guests.
While Christian Scientists, who are occupying their new church on College street, Lewiston, are not actively participating in the special local campaign for Sunday attendance, inasmuch as they affirm that here, as elsewhere, their churches are always filled with church-goers who seem to appreciate their privileges keenly, nevertheless, at the suggestion of the Journal, one of the adherents consented to the following statement covering some reasons why this condition prevails:—
Many
of the criticisms of Christian Science have been based upon the supposition that the healing work which characterized the ministry of Christ Jesus and the early Christians was simply a special gift for a limited time and a limited purpose.
In
the epistle to the Hebrews we read of the law of inheritance which prevailed in the Levitical priesthood, by which men "gave attendance at the altar" and participated in all the rites and ceremonies of the Jewish religion.
How illuminating and significant it would prove if one were able to discern the full content of the psalmist's exclamation when he cried, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills.
with contributions from Clara Shepard, Charles Lynd Cowan, William Irvine
Long before the opening hour, the entrance to the auditorium in Collins street was thronged by the first comers of an audience of thirteen hundred, who listened with rapt attention to William R.
It is with a heart full of thankfulness to God that I give my testimony of healing, through the aid of Christian Science, of what threatened to be total loss of sight.
It is with sincere gratitude that I give my testimony to the wondrous power of divine Truth as revealed through Christian Science, hoping by a life of love to show my gratitude, so many have been the blessings received during the four years I have been studying its teachings.
Charles G. Fritz
with contributions from Gabriel Romanowitch Derzhaves
I am impelled to write to tell others how grateful I am for my healing in Christian Science, which I consider a great manifestation of the power of God.
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