Teaching
Christian Science to the children is a highly important work, and a Christian Scientist who undertakes to unfold the budding thoughts of the young cannot be too consecrated or too spiritually minded.
Most
people are familiar with the history of the children of Israel and their wanderings in the wilderness, and more especially with those portions which are easily applicable to our own experiences.
Belief
that matter is substance is very noticeable in the average expression of hospitality, but it is presented in a truer light by Peter, who counseled, "Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
One
who occupies the position of watchman in any business enterprise is entrusted with duties which may seem small and unimportant of themselves, yet which are absolutely necessary to the protection and success of the whole business of which they are a part, and which need to be carried out with great precision.
O Loved
Columbia! If perchanceThy love for peace and right,Through the fell stress of circumstanceShall yield to war and night;Though on thy gracious face the smileShall for the moment cease,Yet may thy greatness in brief whileCompel enduring peace!
It has been considered worth reporting that an evangelist said that a Christian Scientist would only do some talking to a man in search of a satisfying gospel "and leave the poor devil right where he was.
A correspondent in speaking of my reply to a former criticism says, "I cannot understand why he and others are not willing that the teachings of Christian Science shall stand on their merits and not be propped up by misinterpretations of the teachings of Christ.
Manifestly our critic is totally unaware of the fact that in Christian Science physical healing is an incident naturally resulting from the operation in human consciousness of the understanding of divine Mind, or God.
An article dated at New York City and entitled "Medical Magic Still Believed," appeared in your paper recently, and in the discussion was this statement: "What else is all this but another application of the power of a stronger mind over a weaker one, as taught by our Christian Science friends?
Many of your readers may wonder why one whose profession is to preach the saving power of the Christ, should make the statement that "there never can be a Christian Science church because Christ is not there," notwithstanding the generally recognized fact that Christian Science is not only preaching the gospel and regenerating the sinner, but is also healing the sick—actually exhibiting the "signs" which Jesus declared should "follow them that believe.
Christian Science is based distinctly on the teachings of the Bible, and if its teachings are honestly investigated and studied they will be found to be in strict accord therewith at all points.
From
the beginning of mortal history obedience to divine law seems to have been the determining factor in the welfare both of individuals and of nations.
On Saturday, April 21, the reading-room maintained by The Mother Church in the Berkeley Building at 420 Boylston Street was closed, and new reading-rooms will be opened Tuesday morning, May 1, on the fourth floor of the new Little Building, corner of Tremont and Boylston Streets.
I have been an adherent of Christian Science for four years, and would like to tell of some of the healings and blessings which I have experienced through it.
When in 1903 I first heard of Christian Science, I was very much dejected, owing to troubles of all kinds which had come upon my family and which reacted rather severely upon me.
A year and a half ago I was in great distress, suffering from heart, kidney, and stomach trouble, and it became my earnest desire to know how to live so that God would bless me; but there were so many different churches I was unable to decide which one was right.
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