October 27, 1917
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Once
overcome through the scientific understanding of Mind, a diseased or discordant condition does not recur.
On
page 46 of "No and Yes" our revered Leader writes these stirring words: "Man has a noble destiny; and the fullorbed significance of this destiny has dawned on the sickbound and sin-enslaved.
To
find the true meaning of a word we usually must wade through the sea of material associations and accumulated traditions which conceal its real status in the dictionary of human language.
So
long as mortals believe in a material body, it necessarily follows that material food will be needed by them; but when through the study of metaphysics we learn that Life is God, Spirit, then we begin to look to other sources than matter for our supply, our daily bread.
In
Christian Science a correct understanding of the truth must antedate any satisfactory demonstration of it.
Most people are aware that discordant mental conditions affect the body.
Christian Science holds that God is infinite in every one of the attributes of His divine being.
The Citizen reports a sermon delivered at the Summer School of Theology in which the clergyman made the common mistake of associating the teachings of Christian Science with methods of healing that are based either upon blind faith or upon mental suggestion.
The absence from Christian churches of the works which Christ Jesus promised should be done by all who believed on him, understood his teachings, is clear evidence of the need of a spiritual key to the Scriptures, such as has been furnished the world by Mrs.
The third attack on Christian Science by a certain reverend gentleman, which the Enterprise has printed, again illustrates the fact that people who try to convince others that Christian Science is something bad, continually find themselves relying on misrepresentations.
In a recent issue of the Unit is published an article from a medical journal which may create the impression that Christian Scientists are unfriendly to the medical profession.
Article
The
history of the Christian Science church as an organized religious movement covers a period of less than forty years.
Those
to whom it has been given to reach the summit of some great height know what a sense of exaltation may be experienced there.
Article
The attention of our readers is called to the fact that The Christian Science Monitor is not in the class of periodicals included in the ruling of the Postmaster-General of the United States concerning the mailing of literature to soldiers and sailors at the front, concerning which a notice appears on the cover of the Sentinel.
Searching for that which might help me to realize my early ideals of character, on reaching majority I turned from the orthodox church with disappointed hopes.
It is a privilege and a duty to give my testimony, and I hope that it may benefit some one.
When I first heard of Christian Science I had very vague idea of what it meant, but having exhausted medical help Idecided to see a practitioner and discuss the subject.
Our periodicals have brought us so many helpful thoughts that I would like through them to tell of a few of the many ways in which Christian Science has benefited our home.
It is with a heart full of gratitude that I write this testimony of my healing in Christian Science.
Without the slightest knowledge of Christian Science, and yet with a feeling of ridicule for what I thought it to be, I was instantaneously healed in one treatment of a most severe case of tonsilitis, of chronic stomach disorder, and of the bad habit of taking drugs.
Christian Science was brought to me a little over five years ago by a friend who had been healed, as he knew I had been ailing for twelve years and was still a slave to material remedies.
It is a duty that I owe to God, also to our Leader, Mrs.
I wish to express my gratitude for the understanding and love of God that Christian Science has brought to me.
It is with deep gratitude that I tell of the blessings which have come to me through Christian Science.
I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science, the study of which was taken up for the healing of a young daughter, who had what the doctors called bronchial gastritis.
It has been many years since I took up Christian Science for physical healing.
Christian Science came to me some ten years ago in response, as it seemed, to an earnest desire to understand the Bible.
I am moved by deep gratitude in my desire to add this testimony in recognition of the last benefit derived through Christian Science.
For over ten years I suffered constantly from a complication of diseases, among them chronic bowel disorder, headache, female trouble, and rectal trouble in its worst form.
Christian Science came to me at a time when I was suffering from a sense of fear and depression that made life miserable.
God's
gift is Life: Himself! We should go straying,Hands full, hearts full, like happy children Maying;Glad of clear skies, or roses drenched with rain:His children, zestful of such radiant giving;His children, never knowing death or pain,—Caught close to Life—close, closer—in the living.
