In
these days, when the rapid growth of the Christian Science movement is the subject of comment throughout the civilized world, it is a good thing for the individual Scientist to think frequently of the reason for the existence of the organization, and to ask himself whether he is doing his full part toward the accomplishment of the purpose expressed in these words of our revered Leader: "To organize a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing".
A Friend
remarked to the writer a short time ago, when arrangements were being made for a Christian Science lecture, "I was just saying to my wife that one thing which characterizes you Christian Scientists is that you do not hesitate to go to considerable expense for the sake of your religion.
While Christian Science stands in no need of publicity from me, it is a little difficult not to say something about it when I am deliberately asked to reply to specific objections to the teaching.
A friend has sent to me for comment or reply, a clipping from a recent issue of The Republican containing a report of a sermon delivered at Springfield, in which Christian Science was denounced for the reason, as our brother put it, that this Science teaches that the dead are conscious.
I will
be glad, I said; but in the roundOf daily trivial tasks and anxious thought—Of days with care and bitterness full fraught—Never my heart a cause for gladness found.
In
the presence of an international conflict which threatens to engulf the Christian world with a tidal wave of suffering and unhappiness, many may be led to doubt the possibility of being obedient to St.
There
are perhaps very few who realize the actual value of truth in every phase of human experience, and fewer still who would admit that mortals cannot in the strictest sense speak the truth, for the simple reason that spiritual sense is needed in order to know the truth about anything.
with contributions from A. J. de Graaf, N. D. Darlington, Arthur W. Eckman, Lewis R. Works, H. P. Hitchcock, E. M. Cohee, James A. Devitt, Carleton H. Parker, N. A. Baker
The first Christian Science lecture in Amsterdam was given by Bicknell Young on March 12, in the building of the "Vrije Gemeente".
Emmy Schmid-Wyssmann
with contributions from Salquin-Wyssmann
It is with a sense of great joy and deep gratitude that I herewith testify to having been healed through God's power in Christian Science of what was pronounced tubercular disease of the lungs and vertebræ.
I desire to express my gratitude for many blessings received through Christian Science in the last few years, also for a most wonderful demonstration over paralysis of the lower part of my body.
It is with pleasure and gratitude that I acknowledge the help of Christian Science in the healing of my four-year-old girl, in two or three treatments, of a fully developed case of mumps.
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with contributions from A. J. de Graaf, N. D. Darlington, Arthur W. Eckman, Lewis R. Works, H. P. Hitchcock, E. M. Cohee, James A. Devitt, Carleton H. Parker, N. A. Baker