August 7, 1920
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WHEN
Paul wrote, in his first letter to the Thessalonians, "Pray without ceasing," and prefaced this admonition with the words, "Rejoice evermore," following it with, "In every thing give thanks," one can readily see that the writer of this epistle recognized joy and gratitude as essential to true prayer, and these two qualities are so linked together as to make it difficult to find where the one ends, and the other begins, in attempting to differentiate.
WHAT
a wonderful thing Christian Science is to the person who, befogged in sin, worried over financial difficulties, disappointed in the failure to find joy and peace in some human relationship, or clogged by the pain and weariness of some belief of physical ill, hears the joyous message of divine Love and the good which it brings to all the world, in the inspired words of Mary Baker Eddy: "The notion that both evil and good are real is a delusion of material sense, which Science annihilates.
AGAIN
and again, when battling with the claims of finite sense—the suggestions of physical or mental inharmony and lack—the student of Christian Science is tempted to cry out for more of the truth to help him in his time of need.
THE
student of Christian Science early learns that thought is turning in new directions, is seeking new channels for expression.
WHEN
the light of Truth first appears midst the chaotic beliefs of mortal mind, the individual feels as if he were inhabiting another world; the old false beliefs and fears begin to drop away, one by one, and all things become new.
AT
the present time, when this material world seems so full of trouble and unrest, it is good to remember the words of the "sweet psalmist of Israel," "Be still, and know that I am God.
IN
"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" speaking of the chapter entitled "Recapitulation".
THOSE
uninstructed by Christian Science may spend most of their seemingly perplexed existence in the "valley of decision," so named by the prophet Joel in his exclamation: "Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
AT
night the listening shepherdsHeard the tidings, glad and clear;And at night the watching wise menSaw the guiding star appear.
Love is Mind's potent provision of abounding good for its image and likeness.
An Episcopal layman recently declared in the World-Herald that the Nicene creed is practically the constitution of orthodox Christianity, and finding that Christian Science does not accept the theory that Christ is God, stated in that creed, he jumped to the conclusion that Christian Science has no Christian basis.
The rabbi's sermon, "The Problems of Evil," extracts of which were printed in a recent issue, takes plain issue with some Old Testament teachings on the question of God's knowing or permitting evil.
Infinite Spirit, God, divine Mind, is the fundamental basis of all true being, and the universe and man reflect Him.
From the standpoint of Christian Science, the only true healing method is the one employed by Christ Jesus.
In the paper "The Dual Personality" published in a recent issue, Christian Science is referred to in a way which is almost certain to be misleading.
THE
world is suffering very largely from the belief that there is a law of evil.
EARTH
is so often thought of as matter, as a type of gross materiality, that some may have lost sight of the fact that there must be the true idea of earth as well as of anything else.
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As I have been helped so many times by reading the testimonies of others, I feel it my duty as well as a privilege to tell of some of the blessings that have come to me through Christian Science.
It is with a heart full of gratitude that I testify to my healing through Christian Science.
To say that I am grateful and rejoice is to express but faintly my thankfulness to God and my gratitude to Mrs.
My blessings have been many and I feel I must send a second testimony.
Christian Science was presented to me six years ago, at a time when, to human sense, I had to have relief or pass on.
When I first turned to Christian Science five and a half years ago, I had not known relief from pain for ten years.
About six years ago I was in a very sickly condition and had given materia medica every opportunity I could think of to restore health, but it was of no avail, for I only fell deeper into a darker and more sorrowful condition.
In Habakkuk 2:2 we are told, "Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
The testimonies which appear in the Sentinel and Journal are very interesting and I enjoy them very much and feel as if it were time to add my own.
I would like to express my very sincere appreciation for Christian Science, for Mary Baker Eddy, and for all of the periodicals.
There must be other mothers who are passing through the ordeal of the sense of loss such as I experienced a year and a half ago when my dear son, a boy of sixteen, passed away at one of our public schools, after only three days' illness.
With a grateful heart I wish to give thanks for the teachings of Christian Science and for God's great and omnipresent love.
It is a great pleasure to give the following testimony of healing through Christian Science.
As I have been helped so much from testimonies in the Sentinel and Journal, I wish to express my gratitude to God and to Mrs.
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