When
one is first reaching out for an understanding of Christian Science with which to overcome disease or some other discordant condition, his thought is held, from the opening line of the Preface of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, by the possibility of immediately putting into practice the rules of divine healing and thereby gaining without delay the good promised as a result of this practice.
To
be alone with God, to shut out materiality from thought, to contemplate the spiritual, is as an oasis in the desert, or wilderness, of material rush and strife.
The
certainty of divine inheritance was made known to humanity by Christ Jesus when he said, "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me;" and because of the fixity of the belief of mortals to-day that there is another power besides God, it is well to know that the converse of this immortal message is equally true.
According
to Biblical record the Sabbath was established in commemoration of God's rest on the seventh day, following the six days of creation, and in obedience to a divine command.
Christian Science is not a cult, but, as its name implies, it is the scientific or exact knowledge of the Christ, Truth, which may be demonstrated or proved by anyone who is willing to put its teachings into practice.
The advice of a well-known writer, quoted in the Empire to regard death as a friend, not as a foe, is so diametrically opposite to the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy, who is mentioned therein, that a word of explanation seems desirable for the benefit of those of your readers who might otherwise be misled.
That other churches, owing to the success of Christian Science, should sometime take up the ministry of healing, was an inevitable consequence foreseen by Mrs.
In a recent issue a critic is reported as again making the statement that the healing by Christian Science is accomplished through "string and continued suggestion," a statement that is wholly wrong, and one which has been corrected repeatedly.
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Christian Science was mentioned to me by a neighbor at a time when we were in need of something better than we were then using, as some one of our family of three was always under a doctor's care; but I was very bitter toward what I then thought Christian Science to be, and asked not to hear more said about it.
Julia Pearl Steen Garratt
with contributions from Charles A. Garratt
It is over eighteen years since a nerve specialist told us that there was no hope for me; that I had creeping paralysis, and if I had any preparations to make it would be better not to wait, for I was a doomed woman.
With much gratitude for the many good things I have received through my study of Christian Science I send this testimony, hoping that it may help some one needing help as I was My first acquaintance with Christian Science was in 1909, when a sister urged me to have treatment for the discords that were then causing me much suffering.
Jesus said to his disciples, "When the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me.
Christian Science had been presented to my notice by friends several times, but I had never been shown the text-book, nor had I read any of the authorized literature, and from the little I had casually heard of its teachings I thought it might be useful to nervous people with fancied ailments, but of no benefit to anyone who was really suffering, like myself.
I want to express my gratitude through the columns of our periodicals for the joy and abundance of good things that have come into my life through the study of Christian Science.
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