The Leather and Paper Laboratory of the United States Department of Agriculture, advising on the care of leather shoes, says: "Shoes should be oiled or greased whenever the leather begins to get hard or dry.
There
are many who look upon the story of Jesus of Nazareth as if the words and acts recorded were like other happenings of history, fortuitous and disconnected.
As a language is not mastered until the student learns to think in that language, so it becomes evident to the student of Christian Science that in order to be able to demonstrate Truth he must have good in all his thoughts; he must think spiritually in working faithfully up to this Christ-standard.
Hope
is not building castles in the air,Nor wishing that a something may come true,Nor turning from the blackness of despairWith empty heart to gaze at heaven's blue.
The lecture on Christian Science given at the school auditorium in Corpus Christi recently, was heard by a great many people whose idea and conception of what Christian Science really is were no less vague than their knowledge and conception of thousands of other things about which they knew absolutely nothing.
In classifying Christian Science among "Isms, Wise and Otherwise," in a paper read before a ministerial association, as reported in The Tribune, a clergyman has fallen into some errors regarding Christian Science which need correction.
In an interesting communication to your paper a correspondent brings out some points as to the method by which cures of physical ailments are brought about by various systems claiming to heal disease, but he misses the great truth that it is the theology of Christian Science which is accomplishing the works done in its name.
Christian Science is preeminently a religion of the Bible, and is in strict accord with Bible teachings, interpreted spiritually, from Genesis to Revelation.
In reply to a letter in The Express permit me to state that mortals indulge in evil because they are victims of the general belief that evil has the intelligence and attractiveness of good; but Christian Science is teaching that the one and only cause is God, or good, and that good is therefore infinite.
During
the past two years publishers of newspapers and periodicals have been called upon to meet a situation unprecedented in the history of the publishing business, due to the increased price of paper and other expenses of production.
In
her address before the Alumni of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College in 1895, our revered Leader said: "The systematized centres of Christian Science are life-giving fountains of truth.
Students
of Christian Science from their earliest experience in its healing work begin to discover new and more spiritual meanings in the Scriptures, and in their gladness at finding these they are apt to venture beyond their depth and to give out statements of truth which they have not proved.
When Christian Science found me, more than eight years ago, I was miserable, both mentally and physically; but such was my antipathy toward all religions that had this teaching been presented to me by any one other than the friend for whose intellectual and moral character I entertained such high regard, it probably would have been rejected.
I wish to express my thankfulness to God for the many blessings that have come to me through the study of the Bible in connection with the Christian Science text-book, which has proven to be indeed a "Key to the Scriptures.
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