AFTER
the resurrection, when Jesus brake bread with two disciples at Emmaus, we are told that their hearts burned within them as he opened to them the Scriptures.
TO
the student in any college come the questions: "Am I here to waste my time by neglecting my duties; to drift with the current of idleness, in spending hours aside from studies in harmful gossip; to be mesmerized by fear of others' criticism?
LET
not the argument of human reasonWhisper within thyself: It must be so;This false belief, though only for a season,Is the effect which mortal thoughts bestow.
Christian Scientists appreciate the kindliness of the criticisms of their religious beliefs contained in the article in a recent issue, but the critic's statements relative to the discovery of Christian Science and to its teachings are so erroneous that space is asked for a brief correction.
In the June issue of the Presbyterian Record the editor devotes several pages to a talk on what he apparently conceives to be Christian Science, but the subject is flagrantly misrepresented.
Sometimes
a politician is heard declaring that honor does not exist in these days and appeal must be made not to the fineness of character which should be in men, but merely to the gross selfishness which holds the multitude in darkness, and we are unable to think of such a politician as being a light in that darkness.
Ever
since Adam and Eve disobeyed God, and sin received the sentence of destruction which must inevitably be meted out to it, men have expected and feared condemnation.
with contributions from Giles M. Smith, James Neil Hastings, Trudus Teves, Charles Mitschrich, Mary Harger, Harry Alden Dodge, Craig R. Duer, E. Edward Lord, Dale G. Vaughan, James M. Robinson, Eleanor Creighton
Isaiah's words, "O thou afficted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted," express my condition when in the spring of 1913 I turned to Christian Science for healing.
Twelve years ago, after my mother, who had been my most intimate companion through childhood and early womanhood, unexpectedly passed away, I felt a great desire to look into and understand metaphysics.
Christian Science came to me, as it does to many others, at a time when everything else had failed me and when prominent doctors had given up hope that I would ever be well mentally or physically.
Striving to find the truth by reading at the same time both mental science and Christian Science literature, I found help in neither and discontinued reading for a while; however, associating with Christian Scientists and attending their services, I observed a most peaceful and quiet atmosphere, and once again sought to find that same peace.
In the spring of 1916, when I had been told that it would be necessary to have a slight operation performed for the removal of a tubercular gland, I turned to Christian Science for help.
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with contributions from Giles M. Smith, James Neil Hastings, Trudus Teves, Charles Mitschrich, Mary Harger, Harry Alden Dodge, Craig R. Duer, E. Edward Lord, Dale G. Vaughan, James M. Robinson, Eleanor Creighton