Connecticut College for Women, at New London, the first institution of its kind in the state, opened this fall with an entering class of more than one hundred students.
If
as loyal Christian Scientists we were called upon to take our place on the witness-stand of a court of justice or inquiry, and testify on behalf of our faith, what would be the character of our testimony?
It
was between times, neither light nor dark, and the sun that had slowly passed behind the distant hills a while ago, seemed loath to yield, even for a few short hours, his sovereign rights to those lessor luminaries that one by one glimmered in the somber sky.
In connection with the good editorial mentioning Christian Science in a recent issue, let me say that the teaching of Christian Science is indeed that the mortal mind produces, as the editorial declares, a belief in the reality of the diseases which it self-consciously looks for.
"Christian Science Dissected" was the sermon-subject at the Christian Church in Marshall not long since, and as it was reported an effort was made to show that Christian Science is "a philosophy without wisdom; a science without facts; a religion without rational worship; a theology without God, and a Christianity without Christ.
An understanding of Christian Science is not attainable by a "two weeks" study of the subject; neither can so vast a theme be elucidated in a single article.
Not long ago The Recorder published in full a learned paper entitled "The Definition of Insanity," which was read before the Albany County Medical Society by Doctor—.
Let justice hold her scale, and truth divideBetween the right and wrong; but give the heartThe freedom of its fair inheritance;Let the poor prisoner, cramped and starved so long,At nature's table feast his ear and eyeWith joy and wonder; let all harmoniesOf sound, form, color, motion, wait uponThe princely guest, whether in soft attireOf leisure clad, or the coarse frock of toil.
Sometimes,
as we try to take in the vast proportions which the Christian Science movement has assumed, we are almost overwhelmed at the magnitude of our indebtedness to its Discoverer and Founder, our revered and beloved Leader.
The
lack of unity of belief and of efficient cooperation among professed followers of Christ Jesus which has characterized Christian history in all the long years, is equally unfortunate, unbecoming, and unnecessary.
Within the past two years I, as well as several of my friends and acquaintances, have been led to look upon Christian Science from an entirely different standpoint.
A deep sense of gratitude prompts me to give my testimony for the Sentinel, a copy of which, some fifteen years ago, was the means of bringing me into this practical and provable religion.
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