The engineering problem of constructing a railway through the Hindu Kush Mountains from Turkestan to India, in the opinion of Russian engineers who have made surveys, will find a comparatively easy solution by boring a tunnel under the divide separating the headwaters of the Kundus, flowing toward the Oxus River and Turkestan, from the headwaters of the Kabul River, flowing east to join the Indus River, which drains all northwestern India.
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criticism of Christian Scientists, to the effect that they do not use the Bible, or that they have a special one of their own, emphasizes the necessity that the children in our Sabbath schools be thoroughly taught the Scriptures.
To the student of Christian Science it is a fact that oftentimes some of the greatest of the metaphysical truths which he learns are brought home to him through the small, apparently trivial happenings of his every-day life.
It is interesting to note that whereas formerly critics of Christian Science denounced this subject as being neither Christian nor scientific, now they are beginning to admit that science and Christianity do combine and are essentially indissoluble.
Recently the Christian Science Society in Corvallis invited an authorized lecturer to deliver a lecture on Christian Science in that city for the benefit of those who desired to learn more of these teachings.
One does not have to know anything about Christian Science to perceive that the first two chapters of Genesis contain two exactly opposite accounts of creation,—one the spiritual and eternal, the other setting forth belief in the material or temporal.
An evangelist speaking locally, as reported, said for the special benefit of Christian Scientists that "any religious system that denies the virgin birth of Jesus is of the devil.
Judas,
the disciple who "went and hanged himself," finished his record in the gospels; but Judas, the symbol of that which seeks to betray the Christ, will drag along a fictitious existence as long as the fiction of mortality itself continues.
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other than Christian Scientists who have been helped by the Christian Science War Relief Committee are appreciative of the brotherly kindness thus manifested is shown in the letters given below.
In the fall of 1913 I came into Christian Science for physical healing, having suffered with my head for more than twenty years, although several physicians had treated me.
When I began the study of Christian Science I was suffering from defective eyesight, which made it impossible for me to read more than a page or two of a book at a time.
For many years I have been the recipient of the priceless benefits that come through Christian Science, to which I turned for physical healing when after much inquiry I found its logic reasonable, in fact inescapable.