Our
beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who wrote so tenderly of "each waiting hour," held in the keeping of Life divine, wrote also of those other hours, when we should "wake to know a world more bright".
To
heal according to Christian Science, a spiritual understanding of the Bible is necessary,—a spiritual understanding of God and man's relation to Him, a spiritual understanding of creation,—and this can be gained only by earnest, prayerful study of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
Among
the many illusions of mortal mind, there is none more strange than the belief that people are subject to what are called moods, feeling either cheerful or depressed as the case may be.
An
experience of mine a year or so ago, while living on a claim on the desert, has proved of such general application since, that I am prompted to relate it in the hope that it may be helpful to others.
Action is so manifestly the outcome of volition that the human mind claims, without contradiction, the ability of producing, continuing, or stopping almost any action of the human being at will.
It seems a pity that Malcolm was not in a more companionable and genial mood when writing of Christian Science, "The Open Road,"—not that such writing hurts Christian Scientists, but because no man can be happy or do himself justice while indulging unkind thoughts of his neighbors.
"I cannot but realize what a great help Christian Science has been to me, and I fearlessly welcome the trials which will confront me and enable me to prove and improve my understanding of the truth.
In
the midst of the recent war a captain, who was a poet, wrote of the dreams of conquest, the plots and plans, ambitions and boastings, of a reigning family thus: "They are all the mirage of a dying dynasty in the desert it made for its burying place.
From
the Christian Science viewpoint it is of utmost importance to lift thought above the outward material manifestation of man and to lay hold upon the divine idea which is never less than perfect.
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It is with a feeling of deep gratitude for all the help I have received from Christian Science that I send the following testimony, hoping it may be the means of helping many others.
A deep sense of gratitude prompts me to tell of the blessings which have come to me through Christian Science, by way of deliverance from sickness of many years' standing.
From a heart overflowing with gratitude for the many blessings received through Christian Science, I offer my testimony in loving tribute to God, and to our revered Leader, Mrs.
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