All
students of the Bible are familiar with Jesus' parable of the talents, which begins, "For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
One
of the problems that may seem most difficult in Christian Science is the ever realizing of God as what He is, divine Principle, Life, Mind, and the difficulty arises from the fact that most of us, and the world generally, and our ancestors for centuries before us, have been brought up to think of God as some glorified man.
Fear
of loss is so prevalent in the human consciousness that joy in the possession of any form of good is often almost swamped by the fear of losing it.
Before
awaking to the truth of being, through the teachings of Christian Science, we perhaps found little comfort in the statement from the Bible that "in him we live, and move, and have our being.
Inasmuch as the Thanksgiving Proclamation of the President of the United States had not been issued when this number of the Christian Science Sentinel went to press, the Editorial Department takes this means of announcing that the Proclamation will appear in The Christian Science Monitor, as well as in a later number of the Sentinel.
Brought up and educated in the home of grandparents, where one member was a well-known practicing physician, another a nurse, and two daughters were well versed in the medical practice, I developed into a very fearful and sensitive child with a vivid imagination.
About 1916 I found myself afflicted with nearly everything that flesh is heir to and was given up to die by some of the leading heart specialists of New England.
In the hope of helping some one who may desire to investigate Christian Science I take this opportunity of telling of my experiences with this new-old religion.
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