No
single act is perhaps more indicative of the human heart's belief in opportunity for mending its ways than is expressed in the prevalent habit of making good resolutions each recurring New Year.
That
one should turn to divine Love for healing and be denied is impossible, and it is equally impossible for divine Love to render less than perfect and instantaneous healing.
One
of the most comforting passages in the Bible is given in the eighth chapter of Romans, where Paul writes, "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
When
Paul voiced the thought, "The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do," he expressed the feeling of all who, at some stage of their demonstration, should come after him.
Evidently
William Wordsworth recognized the receptivity of the child to the sweet influences of Spirit, since in a beautiful ode he clearly depicts that the child, until contaminated by the world of sense, loves all that is pure and unsullied.
The correspondent whose letter appears in a recent issue is quite mistaken if he supposes that Christian Science would have anyone do otherwise than humbly follow him who is "the way, the truth, and the life.
Probably quite a few readers of the Post-Intelligencer have followed with interest the various articles which have appeared from time to time on church union, written by ministers of various denominations.
An article all the way through, in several issues of The American Evangelist makes light of God, of the Bible, of Jesus, of Mary his mother, and of the divine Principle of righteousness.
On account of a misleading report which has become current, information is hereby furnished to the Field that The Mother Church has no agent or agency at Jerusalem and is not engaged in any undertaking there.
with contributions from Elizabeth Gillott, Carlos B. Wilson, Alma J. Foster, Walter H. Troutman, Albert E. Lombard, William O. Baur, Franke B. Skinner, Enid Childs, John Hinxton
After suffering eight years from spinal trouble which seemed to affect every part of my body, I became discouraged and threw away all my medicines, which were many, saying that if I ever should get well it would be because God had healed me, for I would take no more medicine to prolong this miserable existence.
Having been interested in Christian Science for the past four years and having been helped so much through the reading of the testimonies in the Sentinel, I wish to express the deep gratitude I feel for the teachings of Christian Science and its demonstration in everyday life.
Words are unable to express the depth of my gratitude for the many blessings which have come to myself as well as other members of my family through Christian Science.
I would like to express my gratitude for the understanding of God which is unfolded to us in Christian Science, becoming an ever present help at all times.
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with contributions from Elizabeth Gillott, Carlos B. Wilson, Alma J. Foster, Walter H. Troutman, Albert E. Lombard, William O. Baur, Franke B. Skinner, Enid Childs, John Hinxton