A total of eight hundred and twenty-two conventions and congresses will gather during the two hundred and eighty-eight days of the Panama-Pacific international exposition at San Francisco.
The
man in the water was a swimmer of wide experience, who had rarely missed daily practice for twenty years, yet from the side of the swimming-bath a novice was shouting instructions to him.
There
is no student of Christian Science who does not frequently ponder the assuring promises of the ninety-first psalm, one of these being, "He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
The reference to Christian Science in a lecture on the wonders of the ancient world, as reported the other day in The Springfield Union, was far-fetched in more ways than one.
When fifteen hundred to two thousand persons will gather for a prayer-meeting in the middle of the week, in these days when every one is supposed to be "movie mad," it is significant.
One
of the almost threadbare criticisms of Christian Science which is brought forward more or less regularly, is that which assumes the followers of this religion are guilty of impiety and almost blasphemy, because they believe that sickness not only may be, but is, healed today through the practice of Christianity, just as "all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people" was healed by Christ Jesus nineteen hundred years ago.
The
third chapter of Genesis is of profound interest to the student of Christian Science, who gathers from it wonderful lessons by the aid of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
In
an important sense, the entire philosophy and teaching of Christian Science is summed up and expressed in the deeper meaning of that single declaration of the psalmist, "God is our refuge and strength.
with contributions from Bliss Knapp, S. W. Mason, Almon C. Binkley, S. W. Condon, F. S. Churchill
It is possible for an intelligent student of a given subject to express in a single lecture conclusions that have been derived from years of application; and it may be done with such clearness as to be of great benefit to the beginner, who may lack the time to gain his information from books.
I have awakened to the fact that the time has arrived for me to express my gratitude for the blessings that have come to me since I took up the study of Christian Science.
Maud Guthrey-Evans
with contributions from Margaret Ransom
After many years of suffering I was confined to my bed for more than eight months with what physicians termed an internal growth, which they said would have to be removed with the knife.
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