How violators of the oleomargarine law have defrauded the federal government out of at least twenty-seven million dollars, due in stamp and special taxes, is revealed by Secretary McAdoo in a statement based upon a preliminary report on a sweeping investigation conducted by Commissioner Osborne of the internal revenue bureau.
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one whimsically defined courage as "having done the thing before," by this meaning that a man who had been in one fight would have less trepidation in entering the next, and so by a process of experience in contest come to be intrepid.
When Jesus the Christ began his ministry, the Jews were "astonished at his doctrine," and still further perplexed because he spoke "as one having authority.
Although we appreciate the clergyman's expressed desire, according to a sermon in a recent issue, to treat Christian Science fairly, it is apparent that his repudiation of the omnipresence of God, and his belief that the teaching of such omnipresence is pernicious and unscriptural, must of necessity deprive him of the point of view from which he could concede the logic of Christian Science.
Almost any of the statements made by Doctor—about Christian Science, in a sermon announced in a recent issue, could be used as a basis for showing that he is not correctly informed, and is for this reason incompetent to discuss the subject properly.
A recent issue commented on the case of an elderly lady, a Christian Scientist, who passed away, the head-line of the item reading, "Christian Scientist Dies; Refused Doctor.
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of the leading postulates of Christian Science being that good alone is real, it necessarily follows that this religion teaches the unreality and nothingness of evil.
When I was about seventeen years old I had an attack of measles, and the doctor said if I drank water or became chilled in any way, blindness might result.
Louise A. Morde
with contributions from Albert Morde, S. L. Thomas
It is with loving gratitude for the healing, but more for the clear realization of the allness of God as taught through this experience in Christian Science, that I give my testimony.
My first experience in Christian Science healing reminds me that I must have been much like the merchantman that went down to Jericho and fell among thieves, who robbed him of all he possessed and left him lying, wounded and bleeding, by the roadside.
While on my way here from Massachusetts, I was taken with a burning, creeping, and somewhat painful sensation in my left limb, from the knee to the hip.
This testimony is given with a sense of deep gratitude for the great benefits which I have received, and with the hope that it may prove a help to others who are laboring under a sense of distress.
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