December 22, 1917
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At
an annual meeting of The Mother Church one of its officers in the course of his report urged the constant recognition by Christian Scientists of the fact that there is in reality only one director of The Mother Church activities; meaning, of course, that divine Principle is the one intelligence upon which the movement is dependent for guidance.
Since
I am only one of the thousands of mothers who have been called upon to part with their sons in the recent sweeping selective draft, my experience has no doubt been duplicated in many homes in the United States of America.
The
value of Christian Science literature is that it spiritualizes and instructs its readers in a way no other literature could possibly do.
When
Herod ordered the slaughter of the Bethlehem children he was foiled in his attempt to destroy the child Jesus by a warning imparted to Joseph in a vision, which caused him to take the babe and his mother secretly into Egypt.
Time was, and not so very long ago, when varying opinions meant bitterness and enmity.
In a recent review of a book there are some misleading references to Christian Science.
In a recent communication a correspondent has criticized what he believes to be Christian Science, but his conceptions of the subject are so far from the truth that some explanation is due your readers.
In a recent issue Assistant Attorney-General Johnson is reported as saying to the suffragists that they had a Christian Science case,—"they only think they have one.
Provision for the extension of the Christian Science Park, maintained by the Board of Directors of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, in front of The Mother Church, is made in the proposed transfer of Norway Street, between Falmouth Street and Huntington Avenue, by the city of Boston to the church in exchange for a compensating amount of land to make possible the extension of Dalton Street to Huntington Avenue.
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"On behalf of the members of this church [Brisbance, Australia], I have much pleasure in inclosing herewith check for $59.
When
Jesus was born, certain wise men came to search for him in Jerusalem.
I had never heard much about Christian Science until June, 1916, when my sister, who had just returned from California, came to visit me.
Christian Science was first brought to my notice about thirteen years ago through the healing of my wife of acute lung trouble.
I am very thankful for Christian Science and for the many blessings that have come to my husband and myself through its teaching.
It is with the deepest gratitude to God that I acknowledge the many blessings which have been conferred upon my wife, my children, and myself through Christian Science, as the result of the loving help of a practitioner and the study of Science and Health.
I wish to set down in words, as well as I can, my unbounded gratitude for Christian Science, that gift of God which was presented to me as a healing law about nine years ago, and which has continued to bless and benefit me in increasing measure since that time.
It is with a heart grateful to God, the omnipresent and all-loving One, and also to our noble Leader, Mrs.
I wish to express my gratitude for the understanding of Truth and Love that has come to this age through the study and practice of Christian Science.
Every day seems to increase my thankfulness for Christian Science, and makes me appreciate more its practical, helpful teaching, which I can apply to all my problems, big or little, domestic, social, and business.
Nine years ago I turned to Christian Science for physical healing, after spending the greater part of my life in sickness and intense suffering, all the time possessing a discordant, unhappy condition of thought.
I wish to testify to the great blessing that Christian Science has been to me and to my husband.
In the year 1913 I was severely tried in the school of life.
There is nothing for which I am more grateful to Christian Science than the help it has been in the raising of my children—for the health, happiness, peace, and love it has brought into our home.
I wish to testify to the wonderful healing of my son's eyes through Christian Science.
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