The Argentine minister of agriculture is about to present for congressional approval a project providing for the issuing of 16,000,000 pesos in bonds to be used in the exploitation of the Comodoro Rivadavia oil fields.
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Christian Scientists are always grateful for the relief from inharmonious conditions which comes to them through their application of metaphysical treatment to physical disease, it is a question well worth considering whether we are always equally appreciative of that divine protection which in times of danger prevents these inharmonious conditions from manifesting themselves.
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a Wednesday evening meeting in a Christian Science church a testimony was given by one who had been a sufferer from seasickness, to the effect that on the first occasion of having to take a sea journey after becoming a Christian Scientist the water was so calm that there was no fear of inharmony.
IN
reading the Bible, both in the Old Testament and in the New, we occasionally meet the word stumbling-block, which is defined by lexicographers as a difficulty or impediment.
JOSHUA
the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, alone of the twelve sent to investigate the promised land by Moses, returned a verdict true to the law of progress, as stated by Caleb when he said, "Let us go up at once and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
Our critic has confused the latest theories of natural science with the teachings of Christian Science, and thereby results the "wild nonsense" of which he complains.
I have read the communication of a correspondent that appeared in a recent issue of the Times Herald, and appreciate his complimentary remarks concerning the work of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and author of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the text-book of Christian Science; but I am somewhat surprised to find that, after admitting that "this extraordinary doctrine of Christian Science purports to revive, explain, and practise the lost power of divine healing," the correspondent adds: "Christian Science church-members will probably understand it.
A doctor endeavored, as reported, to belittle Christian Science by picturing it after fifty years from its discovery as a melancholy failure, "waiting, hoping for the dismal, hopeless afterwhile.
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of the meanings of the verb to try is to attempt, or to put forth an effort, and it is simply astonishing how often trying is made to take the place in human experience of actual doing.
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The summer of 1912 found my wife and myself in the deepest distress, for our son, then twenty-seven years of age, was suffering from a malady which had been pronounced incurable by several of the most eminent specialists of the state.
My healing in Christian Science has been slow, but I most joyfully bring my "tithes," as I have been much encouraged by reading the testimonies of others.
As the result of my study of Christian Science for the past seven years, I have experienced a wonderful restoration of mental and physical activity, and this after two medical doctors had induced me to abandon my occupation because in their opinion my health was rapidly declining on account of constant mental effort on my part since the days of the Crimean War.
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