Lord Carmichael, soon to retire as Governor of Bengal, India, was presented with a farewell address recently by the municipal body of Darjeeling, the beautiful hill station to which official Bengal is accustomed to retire between March and November.
There
is in the human heart a secret desire for popular commendation which ofttimes is productive of either a fear or a defiant indifference of what others may say.
To all who have accepted Science and Health as the "Key to the Scriptures" and pledged themselves to be loyal followers of the truth therein unveiled, the demand, "Physician, heal thyself," becomes a moral obligation.
So long as we believe that some one else can do things a little better than we can, we shall not be able to get very far along the road to perfection in any line of work.
While
traveling recently by steamer from Calcutta to Colombo, it was brought home to me very forcibly how far reaching is the work of the Christian Science literature distribution committees.
The opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Crane against Johnson and others, decided last week, has been filed, and it clears away the somewhat self-conflicting report by which the decision was first announced.
The author of an article relating to Christian Science, after quoting the signs which Christ Jesus said should evidence the understanding of his teaching.
There
is a very beautiful passage in the twenty-fourth chapter of Genesis which tells how Abraham sent away from the land of Canaan a trusted servant to find a wife for his beloved son Isaac.
It
need not shock the working Christian Scientist to be told that the carnal mind will probably offer him the choice of becoming either a wolf preying upon the lambs or a good shepherd feeding his flock "in green pastures" and leading it "beside the still waters.
We did not come to Christian Science for any special physical healing, but having heard of the teaching through friends who had been healed, we became very much interested in the literature because it was so satisfying in every way.
Several years ago Christian Science was presented to me in an hour of need, and through the reading of an article in the Sentinel the new birth was begun and my sorrow turned into joy.
The Scriptural passage, "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all," fitly describes my experience in Christian Science, which has led me from the darkness of chance and change to a larger realization of the permanence and brightness of life.
I have received so much good from the testimonies in the Sentinel that I appreciate the privilege of writing of some of the blessings which have come into my life through Christian Science, hoping that others may be encouraged as I have been.
Recently I was asked by a friend to give an instance of healing in Christian Science,—not one of which I had read or heard, but one which had come under my personal observation.
The healing of a poisoned finger through the realization of the truth expressed in an article on the Home Forum page of the Monitor some time ago is only one of many proofs of the healing and regenerating power of Truth as taught us in Christian Science.
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