The coal investigating committee of the New Jersey Assembly has submitted a report to the House that eleven big railroad companies control 87 per cent of the total anthracite mined; that there is a general combination between these companies to fix prices, and that the coal sales companies are owned and controlled by the railroads and are devised by the carriers for the purpose of technically avoiding the commodities clause of the Hepburn railroad act.
A recent critic says, with the courtly grace which distinguishes all his letters, that I see evil in matter because I have an evil mind, and then he adds, "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
A writer in a recent issue of the News declares "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the text-book of Christian Science, "is neither scientific nor Christian.
Mankind has not yet arrived at that state of perfection demanded by Christ Jesus, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," but we are daily striving for that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus," knowing that through that Mind alone it is possible to attain perfection.
O royal
city of the glorious King,Thy radiant splendor, born of Love divine,Nor sun nor moon to thee can changing bring,Since God's own everlasting day is thine:As boundless are thy beauteous jasper walls,Thrice iridescent as the shimmering seaWhen on each crest the noontide sunbeam falls,And limitless as His eternity.
What
seems to be the chief stumbling-block in the minds of many people, when it comes to the acceptance of Christian Science, is an unwillingness to trust God, cut loose from all material dependences and lean wholly on the divine promises.
In
the fourth chapter of I Corinthians, Paul warns his readers against being "puffed up," and then he asks the searching question which we may each ask ourselves with profit, "Who maketh thee to differ from another?
Nothing
is more noticeable, in studying the words of Christ Jesus, than the fulness and finality with which he expressed himself in a few words, and this is well illustrated in that remarkable saying to his disciples, "Ye are the salt of the earth.
I send my testimony with an earnest prayer that it may bring a bright hope to "such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction.
Willy Bergmann
with contributions from Luise Bergmann
About the middle of November, 1909, I suddenly became afflicted with acute rheumatism of the joints, and upon my physician's advice I at once went to a hospital.
Clarence Wagen
with contributions from Martha Wagen
After reading the many testimonies in both the Sentinel and the Journal, I deem it my duty, as a student of the truth as taught in Christian Science, to give my experience in the healing of disease.
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