Having just observed its second anniversary, the Lincoln Highway—the 3,384 mile transcontioncntal road dedicated to Abraham Lincoln—begins its third year with much construction work completed.
The
requirement of today is a fuller recognition of the unity, the completeness or spherical nature of the Christian Science movement; the fact that each activity of the movement has an equal importance with every other activity in relation to the whole.
While
material things can never adequately illustrate spiritual truths, yet we may catch glimpses of reality through our human experiences, even as those to whom the parables of the Master were spoken found in them truths whose statement he had adjusted to their comprehension.
Among
the things taught in Christian Science which have startled the thought of materialists, perhaps none has provoked more comment and opposition than that sin, disease, and death are unreal; yet it seems strange that this teaching is not readily accepted and acknowledged, when the meaning of the words "real" and "reality" is carefully considered.
When
our consciousness has once been awakened to the spiritual facts of being, we find that many a little incident along the way becomes symbolic of an idea of Truth and teaches us valuable lessons.
One
day, while struggling with a problem which had seemed to baffle every effort at solution, the writer opened the Bible and turned to the ninety-first psalm.
As one who has been from childhood a Bible reader and regular churchgoer, I quite sympathize with your correspondent's fear lest heretical teachings should be allowed to dim "the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
In a statement referring to Christian Science a speaker is reported as saying, "Christian Science, for all the good that it achieves, also does mischief by discounting intellectual work," and much more in the same erroneous strain.
It
is gratifying to note, as a sign of the times, that many people are recognizing not only the futility but also the harmfulness and bad taste of indulging one of the stock subjects of general conversation, namely, descriptions of the ills "that flesh is heir to.
Good
endureth from generation to generation, and its modus alone can have permanence, prove an unbroken chain, and establish that legitimate law of heredity under which like produces like.
Many
good people are apt to think of trust in God, which is urged upon us in the Scriptures, as a somewhat negative mental quality, a condition of thought which relieves one of all responsibility either at the present time or in the future.
To say I am thankful for Christian Science and what it has done for me would not do justice to my sense of gratitude for this new-old blessed truth which has set me free from pain and mental depression.
After having been ill seven months with heart trouble, stomach disorder, and extreme nervousness, for which I had been treated by the best specialists, I decided to try Christian Science.
Although comparatively young in Christian Science, I feel it a duty as well as a privilege to announce publicly my experience in part since taking up this study.
It is with pleasure, as well as with thankfulness to God for His wonderful goodness and mercy to me, that I write this testimony, in the hope that it may benefit some one in need of the light.
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