The
experience of Abraham when bidden, as he believed, by Jehovah to sacrifice his son Isaac as a burnt offering, holds a lesson of peculiar significance for those who are trying to work out their problems in the light of Christian Science.
The
term "broad-minded" has been applied to many mental states; but though one's idea of the meaning of this term be indefinite, he is a rare person who does not like to hear it applied to himself.
There
are probably few of us who would not own that from the time we left childhood until in the providence of God we came into some understanding of Christian Science, we little knew the real meaning of love, the only love, that which is without passion or prejudice, described in our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
In a recent issue I find an article under the caption, "A Marshalltown Plan," which mentions a proposed sick benefit association to be promoted by churchmen of that city.
There
is a tendency at times, with some Christian Scientists, in their honest desire to make known what great things Truth has done for them, to hark back too persistently to the past, to recall and rehearse with painstaking detail the sufferings endured or the trails undergone, until quite unawares both narrator and listener have etched upon their consciousness as a vivid reality thoughts which are as an open door inviting the return of the illusion of sickness or sin.
No
one can familiarize himself with the book of Isaiah without being impressed that he has come into touch with a man of remarkable vision, one whose spiritual intuition was no less authoritative than rare.
The
great Teacher had much to say about sowing and reaping, and it is well for us to cling to the fact that the good seed and its fruitage were given first place in his discourses and their permanence was shown.
with contributions from Ernest C. Moses , Donald M. Jones, William H. Dawes
Bliss Knapp delivered two lectures on Christian Science under the auspices of Fourteenth Church of Christ, Scientist, in the assembly hall of the Ravenswood School.
In the fall of 1903, after being ill five years and undergoing two serious operations, I was healed through Christian Science of chronic stomach disorder and abnormal growths.
Through a copy of the Sentinel which my husband found in a railway carriage while on a journey to the north of Scotland, several years ago, we learned of Christian Science, and since then we have had many proofs of its healing power.
I have received so many blessings since taking up the study of Christian Science about five years ago, that I feel I would not be doing my duty to my fellow men if I did not offer my testimony for publication.
When I visited a Christian Science practitioner I was in the depths of despair and almost mentally unbalanced; indeed I had not passed a normal day in thirty years.
I did not become interested in Christian Science through the physical healing, but honest curiosity led me to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
Very early in life I became a church-member, but I could never understand God, being taught to fear rather than to love Him, and to prepare for happiness at some future time rather than to realize it now.
The Christian Science Text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
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