The United States Supreme Court has ordered to be reargued the antitrust suits against the United States Steel Corporation, the International Harvester, the United Shoe Machinery Company, and the Lehigh Valley and Reading Railroads and their affiliated coal companies.
When
to a waiting nation there came the news that it was actually involved in a situation from which it had so long and earnestly sought to be delivered, to at least one Christian Scientist, and perhaps to many, the first agonizing cry was: "Are our prayers of no avail?
Within
the last few weeks the great curtain of the world's stage has risen upon a scene so thrilling that it may be said to have few rivals in history.
What
more adequate simile could be used to express the invigorating, refreshing effect of the consciousness of God's presence with His people, than the assurance given through Hosea, "I will be as the dew unto Israel.
A writer in The Colonist approves the classification of Christian Science as a "false religion," on the ground that it, among other religions, regards works instead of belief as the all important thing in one's religion.
All Christian believers must admit that Jesus did his works in accordance with and because of the will or law of God, "with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Those who best know what Christian Science teaches are convinced that it is essentially Christian in its premise, its practice, and its ultimate results.
A local evangelist is credited with the following statement: "The Christian Scientist and the Unitarian rob Jesus Christ of his deity, and hence man is robbed of the possibility of salvation.
I should like to state for the benefit of readers of the Gazette that no true Christian Scientist tries to force his religion upon any one, not even upon members of his own family.
A question having arisen in some branch churches in regard to the eligibility for reelection to the office of reader of persons who have served for three years in that office, and this question having been referred to The Christian Science Board of Directors for decision, they make the following statement, to wit:—
There
is scarcely a Wednesday evening meeting held in a Christian Science church but that one or more persons who have been healed of diseases which to mortal sense are considered extremely dangerous, make the statement that, great as is their gratitude for the physical healing which they experienced, they are still more grateful for the spiritual uplift which accompanied their healing from sickness.
Eleven years ago, while I was in Denver, hoping the climate would be beneficial to my son, who was suffering from a bronchial trouble, Christian Science was brought to my notice.
I have given my testimony in our local church quite often, and have now awakened to the fact that the publication of it may be helpful to the larger field reached through the Sentinel.
Words are inadequate to express my gratitude for Christian Science and for the wonderful healing which I have experienced in the case of my nine months old baby.
During the past few years I have thought little of a physical disorder which existed prior to the time I began the study of Christian Science, until I desired to take up work which required a physical examination.
Christian Science has healed me of conditions said to be due to bad blood, of chronic bowel trouble of years' standing which drugs would not heal, of the fear of appendicitis, of a tendency to catch cold easily, of the drink and tobacco habits, and of wrong moral conditions.
We came into Christian Science almost eight years ago through the healing of our baby, who was at that time thirteen months old, from what the doctors pronounced a malignant condition of the liver, adding that they had never witnessed or read of such a case in so young a child.
Some time ago my little girl was attacked with acute pain in the right ear, and an abscess appeared to form under the ear, causing her intense suffering.