During the last decade the forest service has classified as agricultural and opened to public entry more than 15,500 individual scattered tracts of land in the national forests, comprising more than 1,700,000 acres, says an article by the chief forester, published in the year book of the department of agriculture, just issued.
During
one of my favorite rambles in a picturesque part of the country where I live, I was contemplating the beauties of nature, all the more enhanced as viewed in the light of Christian Science, when from a short distance away there came cries, as if from a child in distress.
Individuals
who are beginning the study of Christian Science not infrequently find difficulty in reconciling the presence of sin and evil in the world with the creation of a perfect man and a perfect universe by an infinitely good God, and they generally want to be informed as to where and how evil originated and how the originally perfect man fell from his state of created perfection.
Those
who know nothing of Christian Science and who make no effort to know anything about it, sometimes offer the plea, "But I do not understand how these things can be; I cannot believe that they are true.
Now that the discussion of Christian Science by Doctor—,under the caption "Jews and Christian Science," which began in the January issue, has been brought to a close, I should appreciate an opportunity to point out some of the misapprehensions regarding the religion under consideration which are created by the article.
A recent issue contained statements by an evangelist in regard to Christian Science, one of which characterized this teaching as a leech and a parasite upon Christianity.
The man who desires to help his fallen fellow man to become a useful member of society, does not tell him his case is hopeless and assure him that he is on the direct road to perdition.
It is a pleasure to undertake to answer "Bible Student," inasmuch as a scholar is always interested in logical sequence and is not averse to breaking away from interpretations which have only age to commend them.
If
a Christian Scientist were asked what it is that heals the sick in Christian Science, he would unhesitatingly answer that it is spiritual illumination, and for this response there is abundant Scriptural authority.
My first acquaintance with Christian Science was about sixteen years ago, when my mother was healed in a few treatments of stomach disorder and other chronic ills of ten years' standing.
Some time ago I was seized with violent pain, and immediately declared the truth, without however meeting the trouble thoroughly, as we are taught to do in Christian Science.
It is with a grateful heart that I wish to tell of the help and the blessing as well as of the instantaneous healings which I have experienced during the last three years through God in Christian Science.
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