February 11, 1922
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The
Christian Scientist recognizes that much more is involved in a Christian Science lecture than the outward act of giving a lecture.
When
one considers the discordant conditions which have confronted man from the dawn of human history, and which seem to be so much in evidence at the present time, one may well be led to accept the explanation given by Christian Science, that these conditions are fundamentally the result of disobedience to God.
With reference to a letter in an issue of your paper, kindly permit me to say in your columns that nearly all students of Christian Science have easily understood its distinction between what is real and what merely seems to be real.
A contributor to your paper seems to think that a member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship, when delivering his able lecture on Christian Science, was "greatly disturbed mentally in reference to the mist referred to in Genesis 2:6.
As a reported address on Christian Science contains misleading statements, due, no doubt, to limited information, will you kindly allow a brief correction?
In an issue of your paper you publish a report of two sermons preached in the Ocean Grove Auditorium, and some of the reported statements do not accord with truth and fact.
A writer in your "Free Lance" columns, under the heading of "Free Thinking and Churches" expresses some views on Christianity and takes occasion to say, "Christian Science is not a religion, it is a business.
Your issue of recent date carried a dispatch with a New York date line to the effect that the aid of the courts had been sought by a Christian Scientist for the collection of a claim against the estate of a former patient for "metaphysical help," and that it was the first time so far as known that one of this faith had employed legal means to force payment of such an account.
By
the recent decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts there is placed before every member of The Mother Church the opportunity to aid in quickly restoring our periodicals to their rightful position as auxiliaries for publicly presenting Christian Science, the essence of which is to be found in its purity and entirety only in the writings of our Leader.
Christian Science
as revealed by Mary Baker Eddy provides mankind with full, complete, present-day salvation from all that is unlike God, that is, from all that is unlike good; and it proves its practical utility by its works.
Those
Christian Scientists who remember the publication of the first edition of our Church Manual may recall what varied reception it was accorded by the field at large.
Christian Science
is teaching the world that the power of God is unlimited; that, indeed, it is the only real power in existence.
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The next admission of candidates will take place on June 2, 1922, as provided in Article XIII, Section 2, of the By-laws of The Mother Church.
In October, 1919, while at my work in the Pennsylvania Railroad repair shops, my partner accidentally struck me a severe blow on the base of the skull with a heavy sledge, weighing about ten pounds, which knocked me a distance of six feet.
With deep gratitude I desire to give testimony of the rich blessings which I have experienced in Christian Science.
It is with a grateful heart that I can testify to the healing power of Christian Science.
On the evening of February 26, 1919, while I was standing near a gas heater, my dress, which had recently come from the cleaner's, caught fire at the bottom, and in a few seconds I was enveloped in flames.
It is with deepest gratitude that I add my testimony to the long list of those who rejoice in the healing and regenerating power of Christian Science, which repeats to this age the loving invitation of the Master, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
It is with deep gratitude that I acknowledge the healing of cysts on the eyes, which has been gained through the teaching of Christian Science and with help lovingly given me.
"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" was placed within my reach and I began reading it just as I would have any other book, without prejudice for or against its contents.
I wish to express my gratitude for all the benefits I have received since I became interested in Christian Science.
Christian Science found me about eleven years ago in the darkest hour of my life.
From the time I was old enough to walk I had trouble with my hips, and later, when examined, doctors claimed that both hip bones were out of the sockets two inches.
I wish to express my very deep gratitude to God for a healing which took place in 1919 through the knowledge of Christian Science.
I am indeed grateful for what Christian Science has done for me and other members of my family.
For many years I had suffered much and had been in the hands of doctors, who said I must live quietly and carefully, but that I need not except to take up my work as before.
Twelve years ago I began the study of Christian Science and had been studying only a few months when I was able to lay aside glasses which I had worn for four years.
I wore two elastic stockings for twenty-two years, and even with them I was not able to walk or stand for any length of time.
[From "The Refashioning of English Education, a Lesson of the Great War," by Caroline F.
