The Supreme Court of the United States, in a decision just handed down, holds in effect that mail advertisers, even though they give purchasers value received for their money, are guilty of fraud if by exaggerated advertising propaganda they have led clients to expect more.
So
accustomed are we unconsciously to give reality to limitation in its various phases,—the fault of education burdened with materialism,—that without objection we accept the theories of physics that all power, force, action, friction, wear, progress, germination, in brief, life and the universe, cannot operate without becoming spent.
Not
long ago a member of a branch church was reproaching himself for not working more for the church, and on being asked how he worked for the church he replied, "Oh, I work for the readers and the board, and the ushers, to know they cannot make mistakes.
When
one is asked to teach a class in a Christian Science Sunday school, he is frequently confronted with the problem of how to maintain order and hold the interest of the pupils.
In a published sermon are some statements which indicate the difficulty men face in the endeavor to reconcile the presence of evil, or sin, in a world created by a wholly good God.
A reverend critic of Christian Science attempts to prove that the way to heaven is to feel wicked, and in the process quarrels with Christian Scientists for feeling "very good.
One pertinent fact which our critic perhaps fails to consider, is that a large majority of those in the ranks of Christian Science were formerly associated with other churches; also that the old ties were severed only after the healing of sickness or the redemption from some phase of sin had shown that Christian Science offered them something not to be obtained in the other churches.
In the days of Jesus the people were steeped in the letter of religion; but they had largely lost sight of the Scriptures in their spiritual signification, and because of this their religion had largely degenerated into form and ceremony.
It
may be only a characteristic consequent of a rapidly growing and prosperous people, or it may be the swing of the pendulum from one extreme to the other, but it seems to be quite generally conceded that the tendency of the present generation to look upon the fifth commandment as obsolete or out of date is one that may easily have serious consequences.
The
107th psalm presents in a remarkable way the struggles of mortals by land and sea in their efforts to escape from the bondage of sin, disease, and the dread of death.
At the time of my healing through Christian Science I was suffering from a combination of diseases, namely, a throat difficulty, congestion of the bowels, and organic heart trouble, the last being pronounced incurable by several physicians who had been called for a final consultation.
To me it seems a privilege to give thanks to our heavenly Father through the pages of the Sentinel for the peace and joy that are mine because of the gift of Christian Science.
To tell of the many blessings that have come to me through the study of Christian Science would be like trying to count the stars or to number the sands on the seashore.
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