Organization of the Great Lakes Transit Company, to control 85 per cent of the passenger, packet, freight, and grain steamships navigating the Great Lakes, is announced.
Many
surprises are often in store for the one who has just turned to Christian Science for help, and perhaps not the least of these is the difficulty he seems to experience in getting the practitioner to realize the extreme gravity of the situation with which he is confronted.
On
several occaions I have seen in print the statement made by critics of Christian Science that its rapid growth has been the result of a well-directed publicity plan of propaganda.
The
result of effective, scientific teaching in the Sunday school is apparent when the pupil begins to know and overcome his imperfections in thought and act.
While
talking with a friend who had recently become interested in Christian Science, she made the remark, "How are we, as Christian Scientists, to think about present world conditions?
The methods pursued by an evangelist in attacking Christian Science and its Founder, as reported in a recent issue of your paper, are typical of that form of religious zeal which defeats its own object.
We will agree with our friend, a local clergyman, in his declaration that "illness in one or another shape is a very general human experience, and anything which addresses itself to illness, and particularly promises to subdue or do away with illness, is sure to claim the immediate interest of many persons.
A speaker was quoted in your columns as having said that "whatever was true in Christian Science was not new, and whatever was new was not true;" it was also added that he had made a thorough study of Christian Science.
Reading
the very many expressions of gratitude that have come from those whose necessities have been met in a measure through the war relief fund subscribed by Christian Scientists in the United States, one can but look upon this endeavor as an exemplification of the teaching found on page 518 of Science and Health: "The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good.
Christian
people are frequently compelled to try to explain to themselves, if not to others, the reasons for the saddening delay in the healing of humanity's hurt.
In
the closing chapter of Revelation we have a wonderful picture of the things mortal eye hath not seen, and which cannot enter into the heart of mortal man; yet they are spiritual realities, the things known of God and prepared for all His children.
For a long time it has seemed that I should express my gratitude for the help that has come through the study and application of the teaching of Christian Science.
From childhood I had sought God, even studying for two years in a Bible training school, as I wished to become a foreign missionary; but nowhere in Christian teaching could I find a concept of God that satisfied me.
My motive in taking up the study of Christian Science was curiosity for the most part, as I wished to compare its teaching with a system of so-called mental science in which I was at that time becoming interested.
I wish to express my deep gratitude to Christian Science for the many blessings and the joy and peace it has brought into my life since I began to study it, about thirteen years ago.
From childhood I had been subject to periodical spells of mental depression, which seemed to become more pronounced and of more frequent occurrence as I grew older, until I passed the age of forty, when they became quite burdensome, increasing in frequency and duration.
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