April 18, 1914
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"The time is likely to come when the deposited phosphates in our western lands will be regarded as of almost priceless worth.
One
of the ancient writers is quoted as saying, "Where you are is of no moment, but what you are doing there.
Wherever
the people have gained the right of self-government, they have been obliged continually to defend this right against encroachments.
Possibly
every Christian Scientist has at some time in his experience reached a period of calm when, instead of indulging the tendency to rest on his oars, he has been sufficiently wise to work with unremitting perseverance and trust.
In
the twelfth chapter of Judges is found an account of the test applied to the fleeing Ephraimites, who by denying their nationality sought to escape from the victorious soldiers of Gilead and regain their own land.
The
following incident is one of many that have come to me during the six years of my study of Christian Science, and illustrates the difference in results between wrong methods and right.
Considerable interest seems to have been aroused by the reference to Christian Science which appeared in the Breeze some weeks ago.
A sermon recently printed in your paper declared that Mrs.
Christian Science is not medicine, but theology, and it is founded on the Bible alone, more especially on the teachings of Jesus.
The assertion in a sermon quoted in a recent issue that nine tenths of the Christian Scientists have become such in order to be healed, is substantially correct, although seventy-five per cent is perhaps more nearly the actual proportion.
Jesus once said, "By their fruits ye shall know them.
In a recent issue I find under the caption, "The Bible and Christian Science," the full text of a sermon delivered by a clergyman, in which he presents his opinion of what Christian Science teaches.
It
has occasionally happened that Christian Scientists, in changing from their old beliefs about religion and the observance of certain forms and ceremonies belonging thereto, have become just a little bit unsettled in regard to the proper observance of the Sabbath day.
Mortal
belief is forever at war, not only with our sense of unity but with the achievements of unity.
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The next admission of candidates will be June 5, 1914.
That Christian Science is equal to the solution of every difficulty and the overcoming of every evil, has been proved to me many times.
In the winter of 1908 I had a severe attack of influenza.
I want to add my tribute to the power of Truth as revealed in Christian Science.
In the summer of 1912 I was taken with severe nervous debility and rheumatism.
It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I give this testimony.
Three years ago I turned to Christian Science for physical healing.
I wish to express my thankfulness to God for what Christian Science has done for me in the past five years.
It is with a feeling of deep thankfulness to God that I give this testimony.
Before Christian Science awakened my thought to a true understanding of God, I doubt if a more unhappy individual could have been found anywhere, owing to constant physical inharmony and a great fear of what might await me at the time of so-called death.
I wish to express my thankfulness to God for the good health which I now enjoy as a result of Christian Science treatment.
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The Christian Science Text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
