January 8, 1916
Content can't be loaded!
Article
The rapid growth of the idea of compensation of workmen for injuries received in the course of employment as a substitute for the old liability acts, is shown in a bulletin of the bureau of labor statistics of the United States department of labor.
Because
the use of the written formula in the work of demonstrating Christian Science must inevitably lead to dependence upon the letter rather than upon the spirit, our Leader forbade it, and generally speaking students have loyally recognized the wisdom which dictated this action.
The
subject of reflection, as understood in Christian Science, is of such tremendous import that one will indeed be grateful if he may but touch the hem of its garment.
The
wisest man who ever walked earth's ways often directed attention to great facts by using simple illustrations.
In
the ninth chapter of Ecclesiastes we read of a little city which was besieged by a powerful king, who "built great bulwarks against it.
Some
years ago, when the writer was a very young student of Christian Science, a valuable lesson was learned while watching the growth of a hill of pole-beans in the garden.
In an article on "Nature Around Huddersfield," the writer states, "I went to the Christian Scientists, from whose teachings, let me say, I have derived great benefit; but when I found in Mrs.
In answer to a correspondent I would like to say that Christian Scientists have no quarrel with physicians.
In reply to the statement of a physician, permit me to assure the critic that at no time have Christian Scientists, either individually or collectively, endeavored "to assail legitimate medical practice.
The citations of Scripture given by a critic to repudiate the statements of a lecturer on Christian Science relative to the unreality of disease, do not belong to nor can they be associated with the Biblical account of creation contained in the first chapter of Genesis.
Christian Science teaches how to destroy sin and disease, not how to ignore them.
The comparison, by our critic, of Christian Science with such doctrines as Gnosticism, theosophy, eastern mysticism, occultism, Buddhism, and the like, reveals a misconception of Christian Science which seems to characterize most of its would-be traducers.
Article
We
wish to caution members of The Mother Church in regard to the frequent solicitations they receive by mail and otherwise to invest their money in enterprises which purport to make a special appeal to Christian Scientists.
It
is deeply interesting to trace in the Scriptures the awakening of mortals to a recognition of the greatness and goodness of God, and the expressed desire to exalt His holy name.
The
recent organization by a body of people who, as they aver, are moved by "a common quest after an order of society in accordance with the Mind of Christ," will prove a matter of great interest to all humanitarians, and to Christian people in general.
Article
Under the auspices of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
In November, 1908, a Christian Scientist and her husband came to live with us.
Human language never seems more inadequate to me than when I endeavor to express my gratitude for Christian Science and for the work accomplished by its Discoverer, Mrs.
For fifteen years I suffered from severe bilious headaches, which occurred frequently and would upset me for a week each time.
Before coming into Christian Science I was unhappy, discontented, subject to the "blues," worried about lack of money and work, and was continually taking medicine.
Christian Science has revealed to me a God of love, unchanging good, and enabled me to know man as God's own child.
Christian Science has taught me how to read the Bible understandingly, has kept me free from drugs for over seven years, has healed me of a physical ailment from which I had suffered all my life.
I am indeed grateful for the opportunity to tell of the great blessings which have come to me through Christian Science.
I wish to offer a brief testimony of gratitude for what Christian Science means to me.
I came to Christian Science for physical healing for my mother and myself.
For three years I was an invalid, and for fifteen months helpless.
Christian Science has done a great deal for me.
Article
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXT-BOOK, "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES.
