October 14, 1922
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Over
the opening words of the ninetieth psalm, there is a little heading in italics, "A Prayer of Moses the man of God," which often escapes the attention.
The
knowledge of God's government, immutable, immortal, infinite, is one of the greatest gifts which Christian Science bestows upon mankind, because with this uplifted understanding of divine government there comes a higher and truer sense of men and women as citizens.
At
a time when one student of Christian Science was earnestly seeking more light in order to be a better reflection of the Christ, Truth, in the Sunday school work of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, a young friend, who had for many years been a pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School, appealed for help in the working out of a problem.
A resolution asking the Government to take immediate and drastic steps to curb the reported wholesale massacres of Christians in Asia Minor was read and adopted in five Christian Science churches in Denver.
Christian Scientists do indeed believe and have often proved that "Christianity will cure any disease however chronic" and "all the ills of the flesh as well as the ills of the spirit, when properly applied;" also "that death in this world can be conquered,—overcome.
It has been reported that the minister who spoke against Christian Science found that nearly everybody had left the church when he had finished.
Regarding autosuggestion, Christian Science takes a position positively disapproving of that method as being non-Christian and harmful in its effects.
Fundamentally, and in practice, Christian Science is the antipode of both New Thought and theosophy.
Christian Science teaches that all disease has a mortally mental origin.
Whatever may be one's individual views concerning Christian Science, it has served to build up a mighty religious organization extending to the uttermost corners of the earth, which could hardly have been reared on the uncertain foundations of superstitious beliefs and human philosophy, either modern or remote.
That the material body is the servant of thought, not partially, but wholly, has been proved repeatedly, and is being proved daily, even by doctors of medicine.
Perhaps
in no other teaching of Christ Jesus is there embodied so perfect a compendium for the guidance of humanity as in that passage which has come to be familiarly known as the Golden Rule.
Christian Science
lays the greatest stress on right thinking, and enables us to estimate the value of spiritual ideas.
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Applications for admission to membership in The Mother Church may be sent to the Clerk at any time throughout the year.
Many years ago, Christian Science healed me of valvular heart trouble and inflammatory rheumatism, pronounced incurable by two physicians.
The perusal of the new book, "Christian Science War Time Activities," recently issued by The Christian Science Publishing Society, reminds me of how much I had to be grateful for during the recent war, for which I have never adequately expressed my thanks through the pages of the Christian Science periodicals.
When I came to Christian Science I had just returned from a clinic after an operation, as I had suffered for seven years with a difficulty which physicians designated as tubercular, and which had been growing much worse as time went on.
My first healing in Christian Science was instantaneous, and was brought about by reading the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
Words cannot fully express my gratitude for the teaching of Christian Science.
When Christian Science came into our home it found me a helpless invalid, in bondage to sciatic neuritis, unable to wait upon myself.
A few years ago, while staying at the seaside and bathing daily in the sea, I suffered from rheumatism.
It gives me pleasure to express my gratitude for the benefits which I have received through Christian Science.
Christian Science has caused so much joy, happiness, and peace to enter into my life that I hardly know where or how to begin to express my gratitude, not alone for this great truth, but to all those who have so lovingly helped me over the hard and rough places.
For several years I suffered from gall and liver trouble, which caused me intense pain.
Words are inadequate to express my deep sense of gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me.
I wish to acknowledge my sincere appreciation for a most wonderful demonstration, in Christian Science, over pneumonia and hemorrhages, following a relapse of influenza.
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All Christian Science periodicals, including The Christian Science Monitor, are entered at the Post Office in Boston, Mass.
