The new Erie barge canal, 446 miles long-one of the world's greatest feats of engineering—will be entirely completed and in operation by 1918, according to the state engineer and surveyor.
Desire
to help bring out a more intelligent and hearty singing of hymns in a Christian Science Sunday school led the writer to give the subject of music some earnest thought in the light of Christian Science.
DICTIONARIES
define honesty as fairness, candor, truth, and to be honest as to be upright, just, equitable, fair in dealing with others, free from fraud, frank, sincere, unreserved, according to truth.
NOT
only the young student of Christian Science but the older as well often labors under the impression that he has failed to demonstrate the truth in some particular problem because that which he wanted to bring to pass failed to manifest itself.
BOTH
city and state make the child their first care, and for this reason money is freely spent so that the child may obtain a solid foundation upon which the future man or woman may stand.
My attention has just been drawn to one of your "Notes of the Day" on an American novel from which a quotation is made to the effect that Christian Science is the "special invention" of Uncle Sam and is "based upon physical benefit.
The article by a clergyman on the subject of Christian Science indicates that the gentleman not only has a mistaken sense of the teachings of Christian Science on some of the points mentioned by him, but that he has also allowed his interpretation of the Scriptures to be considerably influenced by an education evidently based on the teachings of man-made creeds and dogma.
While the teaching of Christian Science disavows the need of any material means as a healing agency, yet it grants to every one the fullest freedom to choose for himself whatever system or method of healing he desires; and this same rule of individual liberty applies to all the affairs of human experience.
Your kindly reference to Christian Scientists in your editorial on "Grippe and Religion" may have led some of your readers to ask themselves what the Christian Scientist does to protect himself for instance, from a grippe epidemic.
It will have to be admitted by every fair-minded investigator that Christian Science has attracted people of intelligence and education to its fold ; that within practically half a century it has become known to all parts of the world; and that the works performed through its ministry are matters of universal and common knowledge.
Having received in dark hours so much encouragement from reading the testimonies in the Sentinel, I send this one as a token of gratitude, with the hope that it will be of help to some sufferer.
My parents were members of an orthodox church, trying to live good Christian lives and to bring up their family of six little ones to know and love God.
After almost four years of earnest study of Christian Science I can joyfully testify to its regenerating and healing power in the cleansing of consciousness from much of self-love, fear, worry ; a tendency to judge hastily and to criticize others ; discouragement, envy, and discontent.
Christian Science was brought to me about nine years ago, and at that time, although I knew nothing about this teaching, I was healed in seven treatments of a trouble for which three physicians had told me an operation was the only remedy ; yet I did not become an earnest student of Christian Science until three years ago.
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