The
inscrutable problem of evil still engages the thought of philosopher and religionist, and must continue to do so until the demonstration of Christian healing comes to the rescue with its proof of the omnipotence and omnipresence of God, good.
When
I received an invitation to serve on a committee for literature distribution, I gladly accepted it, although it seemed that my days were completely filled with work as a practitioner.
In nothing that it has ever undertaken to investigate or to analyze has the human mind proved more self-contradictory or more at sea than in its efforts to define life.
Whenever anyone is led to discuss a subject upon which he is not informed, he is quite sure to wander from the beaten path of fact into a maze of his own misconceptions, where he becomes woefully mired and confused, without, however, realizing his condition, much as a man lost in a forest without a compass will believe himself to be making progress when he is but going round and round.
The lengthy discourse on Christian Science in a recent issue presents at least one novel phase; for rarely does a critic of this religion complain because it is founded upon the teachings of the Bible.
Christian
people are all familiar with Jesus' words as quoted by Paul in his first epistle to the Corinthians, where we read respecting the last supper which Jesus shared with his disciples, "This do in remembrance of me.
Announcement is made by the Christian Science War Relief and Camp Welfare committee of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, of the arrival in Paris of a party of ten relief workers, sent to France from the headquarters of the church in Boston.
It has been a source of great joy to me to be able to realize the guidance of ever present Love in the so-called little affairs of daily life, also Love's ability to bring order out of chaos and to supplant fear with confidence.
I have always appreciated the testimonies in the Journal and Sentinel, and have often been helped by them; and now my own is sent in gratitude for what Christian Science, through its many channels, has done for me.
I feel so grateful for the benefits, both physical and mental, which I have received from Christian Science, that I wish to give a written testimony of my healing.
To-day, as I was looking back over the many blessings I have received in Christian Science during the past eight years, the thought came to me that I had not yet obeyed one of our Master's first commands, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Bertha O. Antoine
with contributions from Arthur H. Antoine
When I began the study of Christian Science over four years ago, I did so for the sake of another member of the family; yet how much I needed the understanding of the truth, no one knows but myself.
After many years of membership in an orthodox church, and of antagonism in my thought of Christian Science, I was instantly healed, five years ago, of a most aggravated form of bladder trouble in one absent treatment.
I send this testimony in thankfulness to God, the giver of all good, and I hope it may encourage and strengthen some weary one in search of healing through Christian Science.