January 16, 1915
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A committee of prominent fruit growers and business men, recently appointed at a large conference at Spokane, Wash.
It
is not uncommon for those who reverence Jesus the Christ and who are trying to follow his example, to wonder at the failure of the disciples, who were so closely associated with him, more fully to understand his mission and assimilate his teachings.
In
working to know the powerlessness of evil, we are sometimes led to believe that we are hindered in our work by some one who has not yet learned the importance of holding "thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true".
The
question is frequently asked by persons mildly interested in Science, Why do Christian Scientists give thanks to Mrs.
Out
o'er a blood-stained field I wander far,To succor one I love and bring him home,Repeating still, through pain and death and war,"Thy kingdom come.
In the beginning of the Christian movement there was one fact the recognition of which was regarded as essential to the spread of Christianity.
In his endeavor in a recent sermon to harmonize the practice of medicine with spiritual or divine healing, the Rev.
Viewed in one way, the Bible contains a record of man's growing concept of God.
The Oregonian in a recent issue contained statements by three Portland ministers of as many denominations relative to Christian Science.
That would be a rare commander in battle who could contrive not only to choose his field of conflict, but to designate the character and disposition of the forces with whom he contends.
In a recent issue appears a report of a local meeting wherein a critic misstates the attitude of Christian Science on the subject of sin.
An editorial in a recent issue entitled "A Thought Movement," is liable to mislead some of your readers, because it places Christian Science in a class where it does not belong.
The
artist true paints not the world he seesWith eyes grown dim at scanning faultful things;But to the landscape, face, and form he bringsThe eyes of soul, to him real nature's keys.
Notwithstanding
the fact that a very large portion of the New Testament is given over to the account of our Master's work in healing the sick, the one point upon which many critics of Christian Science base their objection to this religion is that its followers profess to heal the sick by the same means which Christ Jesus employed.
Throughout
Jesus' earthly ministry as set forth in the gospels, we find that his chief appeal to those around him was that they should accept eternal life.
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Under the auspices of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
Several years ago, in despair, I turned to Christian Science for help for my baby boy, who had been ill from the time he was a month old.
While confined in a hospital for the insane as a direct result of fifteen years of liquor drinking and wrong thinking, with its consequent lapses into dishonesty and misery, culminating in a final attempt to end it all by drowning, I received a note from a Christian Scientist asking me to read daily the fifty-second and fifty-fifth chapters of Isaiah.
When I first came to Christian Science, the physical healings seemed very wonderful indeed; today, after nearly ten years of practical application of the truth, they appear to be natural results of the action of divine Principle, and all good seems possible.
I wish to testify to my wonderful healing through Christian Science about a year and a half ago.
I did not take up the study of Christian Science for physical healing, as I had been unusually well all my life, with the exception of severe colds, from which I suffered two or three times a year.
It is with thanksgiving and rejoicing that I give this testimony to the many blessings received through Christian Science.
I gratefully acknowledge the many benefits which I have received through Christian Science.
I am very grateful for Christian Science.
I am thankful to God for the many blessings I have received through Christian Science.
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The Christian Science Text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
