To
be prepared for every emergency is the ideal position for men and nations, and in the endeavor to attain this ideal nations have built up great armaments and men have carried about with them innumerable impedimenta and paraphernalia of all descriptions, only to find when the emergency is reached that something needful is missing.
In
the seventh verse of the fifteenth chapter of John's gospel, Christ Jesus promises, "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
The
realization of his individual responsibility to Principle is vital to the personal progress of every Christian Scientist and will very largely determine the value of his service to humanity.
In
a discussion on the subject of labor, a student of Christian Science remarked to another: "To go back to the work one did ten years ago seems retrogression.
Ever
since accepting as true the allegorical account of the creation of Adam and Eve, mankind have labored under the delusion that mortals are the fallen children of God and must wait until the second coming of a personal Savior, or until after the change called death, in order to be redeemed from this condition.
It was at the time when Jesus sent out his twelve disciples with "power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease," that he gave them words of comfort which have come down through the centuries as a priceless heritage to humanity.
Christian Science apparently is causing considerable perturbation to the local ministers, if one is to judge by the church notices appearing in a recent issue of the Chronicle.
The sermon reported in a recent issue misrepresents and misinterprets the teachings of Christian Science, and reveals again the fact that a material interpretation of the Bible brings to the reader uncertainty, confusion, and contradiction.
Under the caption, "Self-Hypnosis not Uncommon," a critic in the Republican quite plainly displays his ignorance of Christian Science and of the Christian Science method of healing when he states, "His patients believe in him.
Nineteen
centuries of Christianity have left Christendom broken into numerous separate nations, some one of which has, during all those centuries, been more or less constantly at war with another.
with contributions from Alfred Herberich, Joseph P. MacDonald, Alice L. Hamilton, Morris Darius Givens, Nelle Barnes, T. G. Watterson, Eugene Perrin, C. P. Weidling, R. B. Scholfield, Bertha B. Bliss, Charlotte Fugate, George T. Palmer, Edward C. Kennedy
Since I am so far from a Christian Science church and unable to give my testimony at the Wednesday evening meeting, I should like to give it through the Sentinel.
I have received so much help and encouragement from the testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals that I feel I should like to give mine in the hope that it will also help some one.
It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I give my testimony to the many blessings that have come into my life since I took up the study of Christian Science.
Several years ago, while working for a large piano firm in the capacity of outside solicitor, I cam into the store from a morning's work of making calls and remarked to the manager that I had walked so fast when I realized that I was late in keeping my appointment with him that I had a pain in my side.
I should like to express my gratitude for Christian Science through the Sentinel, since it is one of the avenues given us by our Leader, for sharing with others the good that has come into our own experience.
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with contributions from Alfred Herberich, Joseph P. MacDonald, Alice L. Hamilton, Morris Darius Givens, Nelle Barnes, T. G. Watterson, Eugene Perrin, C. P. Weidling, R. B. Scholfield, Bertha B. Bliss, Charlotte Fugate, George T. Palmer, Edward C. Kennedy