As a result of experiments during the past few years, the department of agriculture is now advocating the use of the bedding-out system of herding sheep on open ranges, instead of the old close-herding system which has heretofore been in use.
Devout
people have often been at a loss to interpret the phrase, "the only begotten Son of God," except by assuming that Jesus is that Son, even though St.
It
would seem that there is often heedless talk about church matters among members and adherents of our churches, and a little lesson that was recently learned by one Christian Scientist on this subject may be helpful.
Oh
, the smell of summer rainAs it patters down the dust!And, oh, the thoughts that come againOf verdant hope and vanquished pain,Like fragrance rising from earth's crust,Subdued and wet by summer rain!Who could cherish doubt and fear,When through lattice pink and whiteOf blossoming trees, blue skies appear?
Christian Science bears no relationship whatever to any from of "mental or magnetic healing," and is, in fact, entirely opposed to all forms of treatment which include the use of hypnotism or human will-power.
As reported in the Sun, a critic of Christian Science recently resorted to the method of quoting disjointed extracts from the Christian Science text-book for the purpose of ridiculing its teaching.
Permit us to call your attention to the reference to Christian Science in a recent editorial entitled "Gentle Feminine Influence," in which you assume that Christian Science and mental suggestion are similar.
Christian Science
begins with the individual by making him desire and seek after better things than those which seem to prevail when he turns to the truth.
There
is nothing quite so gorgeous as a jeweled morning, and those who revel in its freshness and song gain a vision with which no other offering of the day can compare.
with contributions from C. C. Pierce, Robert H. Fife, E. Wyly Grier, John Madden, Elmer F. Clute, J. W. Caswell, Palmyra R. Gundelfinger, Josephine Perkins
I wish to express my most sincere gratitude for all the good that has come to us within the last six years through Christian Science, and my earnest desire is that this testimony may prove a means of help to some fellow being who is still laboring under a sense of grief and physical distress.
It is with a heart full of thankfulness to God for Christian Science that I send this testimony to tell how I have been led from what seemed everlasting darkness and despair into the realm of heavenly light, peace, and the joy of good health to me and mine.
I am sure that my acknowledgment of the benefits received from the study of Christian Science is long overdue, and that nothing can be gained by waiting for further experience or progress.
Walter J. Jordan
with contributions from J. Earl Jordan
For the countless blessings that have come to me and mine through Christian Science, I wish to express my thankfulness to God, also to bear testimony to a recent healing.
I wish to express my gratitude for the peace and happiness which have come to me through the explanation of life as taught in Christian Science, for the knowledge that evil is no part of real being, and that there is an ever-operative law by which evil of every nature can be completely overcome.
Soft
breezes stir, and lo! the solemn dellAwakens as to being: to and froIts mute inhabitants do lightly blow,And may perchance a tale of gladness tell.
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with contributions from C. C. Pierce, Robert H. Fife, E. Wyly Grier, John Madden, Elmer F. Clute, J. W. Caswell, Palmyra R. Gundelfinger, Josephine Perkins