March 17, 1917
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"I predict that in the lives of the younger men now before me there will be seen from ocean to ocean in the United States the greatest system of highways to be found anywhere in the world," was the prediction of Senator Bankhead, chairman of the Senate committee on post-offices and post roads, when speaking recently in Atlanta, Ga.
A Proverb
frequently quoted declares that "history repeats itself.
Near
the end of Jesus' days on this earth, while the members of the Sanhedrin were planning for his crucifixion, he went up to Bethany to the pleasant home of Simon, who had been healed of leprosy.
In
his first epistle to the Corinthians the apostle declares that "the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
It
was the transitory nature of all things material which was dawning upon a child's consciousness when she asked, "Does everything break?
Daily
reiteration of the familiar phrases of the Lord's Prayer would seem to have led to mere verbatim repetition of great fundamental truths which were intended as practical guides and waymarks in our journey through the desert of human hopes and fears.
We
are quite likely to attach the most value to those things which we have had to make some effort to gain.
For
love that makes all alien people kin;For joy that glows, illuming all within;For peace, full flowing river of the soul;Long suffering charity, beholding aye the goal;For gentleness, compassionate to the poor;For goodness, native, changeless, and secure;For meekness, of reviling unaware,And temperance, to use Thy gifts with care;For faith, assurance Thou art still the samePure Spirit whom Thy plenteous gifts proclaim,—We laud and magnify Thy glorious name!
A more careful study of Christian Science on our critic's part would have prevented him from making statements which, although true in the absolute sense, cannot be held to be true in the relative sense which he intended.
In answering a critic of material medicine in your columns a physician went out of his way to "judge that our critic belongs to that class of people who believe in Christian Science.
It would be necessary for one to read dispassionately but a small portion of Mrs.
The evangelist recently holding meetings in Escanaba made it a part of his duties to attack Christian Science.
If the charge made by the reverend critic be true, that the teaching of Christian Science is opposed to God's Word, how are we to account for the fact that thousands of people who never before took any interest in the Bible, have become, after reading the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
The Record, being fairly wise in its day and generation, has not lavishly used the publicity stuff sent out by various "benevolent" institutes, societies, associations, and clubs.
In reply to the criticism of an evangelist permit me to state: It is true that those who get an understanding of Christian Science lose the desire to pray as they once prayed, if they prayed at all, but they by no means lose the desire to pray.
In
reading the gospels it is very interesting to note how thoroughly acquainted Christ Jesus was with the Scriptures of the Old Testament.
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The next admission of candidates will be June 1, 1917.
I have been in Christian Science over seven years.
Deep gratitude impels me to tell what Christian Science has done for me.
Having long remained silent, I feel compelled to testify to the blessings which I have received through Christian Science.
Nine years ago my wife and I were asked to read and study Science and Health, that we might help the work of a practitioner who had been asked to treat one of our relatives.
I am deeply grateful for the spiritual understanding gained from a study of the Bible and Science and Health, and for the many blessings received since coming into Science.
For about ten years I have been studying Christian Science, and often the thought has come to send my thanks to the Sentinel, but each time error has said that I needed something big, something definite to speak of.
My heart is filled with thankfulness to God for all that has been done for me in Christian Science.
It is about nine years since I was led to the truth and healed of what is known as lung trouble in its worst form, after I had been given up by our physician, who told my wife that I could last but a few weeks.
It gives me great joy to write this testimony of my gratitude.
When about to board a car on a busy thoroughfare, I was run over by a heavy touring car, which passed directly over the middle of my body.
Christian Science has indeed been a blessing to me, and I am glad to give my testimony in the hope that it may help some one who is searching for the light of Truth.
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The Christian Science Text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
