In
expounding the law to a certain advocate, Jesus the Way-shower declared the first and great commandment to be, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind," and further explained: "The second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
OF
the various motives which have roused men to action during the history of the world one of the most general is the desire to gain power of some kind.
HUMAN
experience has always seemingly been at the mercy of dangers and difficulties of one kind and another, and mankind is ever asking why this is so.
AN
acknowledged authority on good manners and politeness wrote thus to his son: "Know, then, that as learning, honor, and virtue are absolutely necessary to gain you the esteem and admiration of mankind, politeness and good breeding are equally necessary to make you welcome and agreeable in conversation and common life.
The Fifth Commandment, though it may seem almost the easiest to understand of the ten words of the Decalogue, is, in some ways, perhaps the most difficult.
In
the practice of Christian Science one often finds that those seeking help will report, before the complete healing comes about, that they have had certain periods of relief, lulls in the seeming tempest of trouble, which have been welcome foretastes of what whole freedom is.
Pursuant
of the truth I dwell in ecstasy,Nor find the pathway dull nor hard to tread;Each new effect unto its cause is wed,One light supreme, divine, in all around I see.
Having in some degree learned, thanks to Christian Science and to the devoted help of Christian Scientist, "to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge," I gratefully send this testimony.
Anna B. Grable
with contributions from A. F. Grable
I am so happy and thankful for what Christian Science has done for me and mine that I must tell it with the hope that my testimony may help some one as the reading of the testimonies in the Sentinel helps me.
Flossie S. Harrison
with contributions from Isabel Lusk
I first became interested in Christian Science when a friend invited me to attend a lecture, which I did only because there was nothing else to do that night.
It is with a heart full of gratitude that I write my testimony, hoping it may help others, as I have so many times been helped by those in the Journal and Sentinel, which have been just what I needed and at the very time I needed help.
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