The
distinction between spirituality and materiality is being clearly discerned by a larger number of people than ever before in the world's history, and this great boon to humanity has become practicable through the discovery of Christian Science.
For
many years prior to coming to Canada I was a local preacher connected with the Methodist church in Ireland, and as such was recommended to the Methodist church in America.
"Oh
, how I love God!" Such was the involuntary outcry of a woman who had just passed unscathed through one of the greatest calamities of modern times.
Until
the outbreak of the world war I had been a reader of The Christian Science Monitor for over four years and had derived great pleasure, enlightenment, and other benefits from its pages.
At
the present time a great deal is heard about knitting, and it seems to engross the feminine portion of each community, from the children whose hands are so tiny they can scarcely manage the needles to the grandmothers and great-grandmothers.
A writer's comments in your columns on the teachings of Christian Science remind me of the following definition in the Encyclopædia Britannica: "Materialism in its modern sense is the view that all we know is body, of which mind is an attribute or function.
Christian Science is referred to in a reprint from a medical journal in a way that shows a woeful lack of intelligence on the subject on the part of the author.
In two recent sermons by an evangelist reference was made to Christian Science in a manner which showed a misapprehension of its true teachings on the part of the speaker, and a consequent wrong impression was conveyed in what was said.
In
the practice of Christian Science, believing in the power of God loosens the soil of conservatism so that the seed of truth may eventually sprout and bring forth the fruit of the Spirit.
In the fall of 1905, during the illness of a dear sister who was reaching out for healing in Christian Science for a chronic trouble which material remedies had failed to relieve, the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
That anyone could be healed of stomach trouble of twenty years' standing simply through reading or studying a book, must seem strange to those who have never investigated Christian Science,—yet this has been my experience.
For ten years I suffered from neuralgia in the head, and from other ailments so serious that I was obliged to submit to two operations, and in October, 1911, my doctor said he thought another operation was necessary.
In the autumn of 1902 the light of Christian Science first dawned upon my darkened mind and taught me, when near the confines of death, that God is good and good alone, and that there is no evil in His infinite plan.
Gratefully I acknowledge the untold blessings that have come to me since I first began to grasp the truth as unfolded to us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
I have so often received help and encouragement from the testimonies in our periodicals that I am sending my own to tell just a little of the blessing that the true understanding of God, as learned in Christian Science, has brought into my life.
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