The
vital message given in the fifth chapter of John, "The dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live," is a prophecy which was proved true when the dead did hear and heed the voice of Jesus.
Remembering
how promptly Christ Jesus rebuked the personal homage of a young man who had addressed him as "Good Master," we can rest assured that when our Master said to Peter, "Lovest thou me?
The
overcoming of self is a problem that faces every student of Christian Science, and until he has met this problem in a measure, he can do little toward helping others to overcome sin, sickness, and death.
One
night, while on the pier at a favorite resort on the coast, we were greatly struck by the power and beauty, and especially the whiteness, of the search-lights.
Father,
all through the dreary night men callTo Thee from earth's wild phantom plains of woe!I pray for one, yet Thou in truth dost knowThy little ones, and brooding over all,Dost cherish them.
One of the contentions of a medical doctor in a recent issue was that a person may become qualified to practise Christian Science by preparing to pass the examination of the state board of registration in medicine, and that the practice of Christian Science should therefore be confined to those who have passed such an examination.
If the pastor whose three sermons have been reproduced in recent issues of your paper believes Christian Science to resemble in any important respect the picture he has presented of it, he has my profound sympathy, for it could not be a pleasant thing to contemplate a large and growing body of one's fellow men, apparently possessed of at least ordinary attributes of judgment and common sense on other subjects, submerged in a delusion so utterly fantastic and aburd as he has undertaken to describe.
Christian Scientists do not refrain from the use of drugs and serums because of any prejudice against employing a physician, but because they have found a more effective remedy; hence this and certain other inferences carried by statements made in the "Health" column of the evening edition of the Mail of May 22 need correction.
In a recent Tribune there appeared a letter from Caption—of Brooklyn, describing what he says was Christian Science treatment, taken some twenty-five years ago.
As one who has been studying Christian Science for many years, you will perhaps allow me to explain a few points which may seem obscure to those who are looking into Christian Science for the first time.
All
Christian people presumably ask for daily bread, and it would be very interesting and instructive as well to learn what this means to a thousand different petitioners who make their requests to the one Father in heaven.
Evil
has always succeeded in fooling the bulk of mankind, including most of the honestly well-meaning, by assuming a form or appearing in a garb which they have not recognized.
I desire to tell others what Christian Science has done and is doing for me, as we have had many beautiful demonstrations in our family of three children.
Since my wonderful healing, nothing gives me greater pleasure than to cast my bread upon the waters in the hope that some sufferer may find it, awake to the fact that God is ever present, and realize that he has only to reach out and touch the hem of Christ's garment to be healed.
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