July 24, 1915
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Authorities give warning that before long all the newspapers of the middle West will feel the pinch of the greatly increased cost of print paper, because the spruce in northern Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota is fast being eaten up by the hungry paper-mills.
One
of the every-day inconsistencies of human existence is the attempt to reform one's neighbor before having reformed one's self.
We
sometimes hear it said by hostile critics that the practice of Christian Science is the "commercializing" of prayer.
While
pondering over the "Rule for Motives and Acts," as given in our Manual.
One
of the most beautiful features of the understanding of Christian Science is that it enables the student to do a great deal of good in a quiet way.
Spiritual understanding is what Jesus came to teach mortals.
In a recent issue you class Christian Science as one of those "apostles of demagogism" which, when the chief secretary has selected certain places in the city of Sydney for open-air speaking, "can pour out the vial of their wrath and knowledge unimpeded by the heavy hand of the law.
If the vitalizing Principle of Jesus' teachings had not been lost to human consciousness in the third century, the "materialism and commercialism" to which the Rev.
Recently there appeared an article under the heading, "Trains the Voice by Mental Suggestion," in which Christian Science is linked with mental science and mental suggestion.
The review of a book dealing with the subject of Christian Science, recently published in your columns, calls for a few words of comment.
No thinking person can deny that the greatest religious question of the day is Christian Science.
The action of the Illinois State Medical Society in adopting a program for securing prohibitive legislation against the practice of Christian Science, as reported in the Intelligencer of recent date, implies that opposition to certain provisions of House bill 582 is in some way reprehensible; that such opposition was confined to Christian Scientists; and further, that the bill merely provides for reporting incipient ophthalmia neonatorum in infants.
It
is a strange commentary upon the preaching of the gospel to which men have listened for centuries, that today the world seems far from the fraternity which should be the fruit of all this endeavor and the logical outcome of the Christianity epitomized by Christ Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount.
There
is perhaps no statement in Science and Health of greater importance to its students than the definition of salvation given on page 593, which reads as follows: "Life, Truth, and Love understood and demonstrated as supreme over all; sin, sickness, and death destroyed.
It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I give my testimony to what Christian Science has done for me.
For more than half a century I blamed an unknown God for nearly all my troubles, and my neighbors for the rest, always—or nearly always—exonerating self.
Five years ago I was suffering from a disease of the throat, and there was great fear of its going to my lungs.
As a living witness to the healing power of Truth as revealed in Christian Science, and with a heart overflowing with gratitude to God, I write this testimony.
When I think of all the blessings I have received through Christian Science, I feel impelled to give my testimony, as that seems the only way to express my gratitude, and by so doing I may help some one else.
On June 10, 1912, my little boy, then eight years old, fell from the nursery window three stories high, a distance of about thirty feet.
Such a wonderful demonstration has been made for me in Christian Science that I wish others to know of it.
It is with the deepest sense of gratitude that I testify to the healing and regenerating power of Christian Science.
I feel that the time has come to tell others what Christian Science has done for me.
This is to state that my little boy, aged six, was healed in Christian Science of an illness which at first seemed to be a cold, but which developed into acute lung trouble.
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The Christian Science Text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
