When
we bestow a kindness upon a fellow being, we do well; when we impart to another's ear a confidence — this is something which calls for the utmost caution.
Recently
the writer found herself in a situation which she likened to that of a man who sits down beside a newly acquired, unworked gold mine, dreaming of all the wonders its wealth may procure, until hunger and the night shadows awaken him to the necessity for further activity before he may rest in the possession of his riches.
In
order to deal rightly and effectively with what we term our problems, we must know and consider what the world at large is thinking and doing, for the inharmony and suffering one seems to experience is but his acceptance of the world beliefs.
It was Sir Leslie Stephen who spoke of a churchman as one who "gives no indication of having any religious views whatever, beyond a dislike to dissenters.
The Union officer of health declares, "I say definitely and emphatically that it would be in the public interest to suppress faith-healing and all allied forms of quackery.
Christian Science is having the warm approval and commendation of humanity wherever its influence is felt or known throughout the world today, because it is meeting the needs of humanity, sick of its sufferings and wearied with its superstitions; because it is bringing to this humanity the cheering message and proof that there is rest, peace, joy, health, strength, and an inexhaustible supply of the heavenly Father's loving-kindness and care, where only the ashes of unanswered prayers seemed to remain.
"True to Christian Science, He Dies Barring Doctors," is the way a headline reads in one of our morning contemporaries, and then the story is told of how Professor Bement might have had medical attendance in his last illness if he had permitted it.
"Conflict
and persecution are the truest signs that can be given of the greatness of a cause or of an individual, provided this warfare is honest and a world-imposed struggle.
Perhaps
the author of Home, Sweet Home" may not himself have roamed among palaces; but he did try out material pleasures, only to find with the Preacher that "all is vanity,"—that after all his searching abroad for pleasure, it was to be found in the simple joys of home.
with contributions from Campbell MacCulloch, Charles W. Avey, John Clapp, Henry A. Germain, Emily Giessner, Edwin Leslie Jewell, William J. Rice, Jacob J. Bolhuis
With a heart full of gratitude I write this testimony in regard to two wonderful healings which took place in our family through Christian Science in 1913.
I have derived much happiness through the expression in our Wednesday evening meetings of my gratitude for the great help received through the reading and study of our Christian Science periodicals, and it has occurred to me that I might express that gratitude in a larger way through these periodicals.
The time has come when I feel that I must express my gratitude to God, to our Leader, and to all others who have helped me in my journey to the Father's house, and with a grateful heart I send this testimony.
I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me, in the hope that my experience may be of help to some one who is as hungry for the truth as I was.
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with contributions from Campbell MacCulloch, Charles W. Avey, John Clapp, Henry A. Germain, Emily Giessner, Edwin Leslie Jewell, William J. Rice, Jacob J. Bolhuis