There
is perhaps no virtue so undeveloped in the human race as gratitude; yet we find today an ever awakening impulse on the part of those who are being roused from the apathy of mortal sense and its dreams, to a deeper, more conscientious expression of gratitude to our heavenly Father.
If
all Christians, no matter what particular denomination they favor, could have some substantial proof of the correctness of their religion and test it by healing the sick as Jesus commanded his followers to do,—let their faith be known by its works,—the doubters would unquestionably be silenced, and a great many of the articles on the future of the Christian church would never be written.
When
my son was about five years old we were living in one of the suburbs of New York City, and he spent most of his time out in the fields about the house, running around in barefoot sandals.
If by the deity of Christ our critic means that the man Jesus was God, then Christian Science differs from such a theory, which is contrary to the Master's own statement, for he said he was the "Son of God.
I am sure it will be a service to your readers to point out that the statement made in your columns, that "there are numbers of people who try mind-healing and find no benefit from it," is merely another way of saying that there is wrong mental practice as well as right mental practice.
With reference to the letter of "A Mere Clergyman," headed "The Recent Christian Science Lecture," may I point out that the teachings of Christian Science as to the nature of mind and of matter, being based on the gospels, are spiritual.
As a part of his discussion that "there is no new thing under the sun," in the baccalaureate sermon reported in your paper recently, a clergyman said, "Christian Science harks back to Berkeley, farther back to India, farther back to the realms of the past.
When
at any time the shadows of mortal belief fall across our path, we cannot do better than turn for comfort to the divine word as given in the Scriptures and again declared to the present age through our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.
In
the crises of life we are apt to pause and ask ourselves how much we have attained that is worth while, and in doing so we sometimes find that many things which we at one time deemed of great value had become of little consequence in the struggle for that which was of deeper importance.
"I am
instructed by our board to write and assure the Publishing Society, through you, of our deep appreciation of the good which the Christian Science literature has brought us; and to assure you further that the increased rates which you have found it necessary to put into effect will be willingly accepted, we feel confident, by this section of the field, and will not curtail in any measure the activities of our distribution committee in their efforts to extend the circulation of our periodical literature.
More and more I realize the need of constant spiritual preparedness on the part of every earnest seeker after Truth, which is indeed our "shield and buckler.
Gratitude prompts me to submit my testimony of much good derived from Christian Science, hoping the benefits obtained by me may bring light to others seeking it.
I am very thankful for the help which Christian Science brings to me daily, though I did not take it up for the sake of the physical healing, but because it appeared so very reasonable when first presented to me.
For the past twelve years Christian Science has met our every need and has been the means of overcoming typhoid fever, measles, whooping-cough, chicken-pox, abscess in the ear, and in fact every ill that has presented itself.
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