I have
been impressed many times with the silent sermons preached to us by our sweet flower friends, and I have surely learned that they are messengers of good.
In a recent issue were several paragraphs speaking of the opposition by Christian Scientists to legislation requiring medical examination of school children.
I noticed an item in the Free Press giving a synopsis of the remarks of the pastor of the North Woodward Methodist church on the subject of the Christian Science doctrines.
The Tribune expresses no opinion on the eugenics measure endorsed by the city council, for the reason that the Tribune does not know any more about the ultimate desirability of such a law than do the members of the city council, the committees before whom the law will be discussed, the members of either branch of the legislature, the governor who will be asked to sign it, or the judges and juries before whom violators will be taken for sentence.
A news item from Belleville, in an issue of recent date, has been brought to my attention, in the head-lines of which are the words, "Child dies as result of Christian Science," a conclusion which I am sure is not correct.
The speech made by Senator Works of California in the United States Senate was head-lined in the daily papers as an effort to obtain a government recognition of Christian Science.
In the first chapter of Genesis we learn that man is the image and likeness of God; and Christian Science gives the understanding of God as divine Love, Mind, and that "all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all".
In Pastor—'s sermon recently reported in the Tribune, the gentleman referred to Christian Science as a "confusing teaching" containing "fragments of truth and masses of error,—brought forward by the adversary with a view to leading people away from the truth.
The
series of articles appearing in The Christian Science Journal under the title "Progress of Christian Science," discloses the fact that only a few years have elapsed since practically all of the churches whose history is there given were composed of but the Scriptural "two or three" gathered together in the Master's name.
Much
is deservedly said these days of the heroism and faithfulness of those who in the crowded field hospitals are working day and night to do what they can to relieve the ever increasing army of brave men shot down in the tragic stupidity of war.
Throughout
all Christian lands unnumbered thousands daily offer up the prayer, "Thy will be done in earth, as is in heaven," but few perhaps realize its tremendous significance or the scope of its inclusiveness.
One of the greatest privileges that Christian Scientists have is the opportunity afforded them to acknowledge through the Journal or Sentinel the benefits they have received from the teachings of Christian Science.
As I read in our periodicals each week the gratitude expressed for the relief which Christian Science brings from trouble and disease, a longing fills me to tell something of the great benefit this religion has been to me and mine.
I used to doubt the statements of the apostles, prophets, and great men of the Bible, wherein there was any claim of miraculous events, although it was not in accord with the teachings of my church to question these things; but I loved the achievements of these great men.
Among the many blessings and benefits that have come to me through Christian Science, there is a demonstration which I remember with special gratitude on account of the lesson it conveyed.
If I were to attempt to tell of all the blessings I have received since I became interested in Christian Science, they would cover considerable space in our Sentinel, so I will mention only a few of the most important healings.
Fitzhugh Dibbell
with contributions from Edna May Dibbell
In March, 1913, I was taken with a sudden and to mortal sense critical illness, which might easily have terminated fatally, according to the beliefs held previous to my acquaintance with Christian Science.
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