Better
health and morals, less doubt and fear, happier hearts and holier thinking, are some of the fruits we experience when yielding obedience to the law of God, "whose law," Mrs.
Sometimes
we are led to believe that because our place in the affairs of life does not seem to measure up to our understanding of Christian Science, we must, therefore, give it up and look for something else which more nearly embodies our ideals.
It
is comforting to know that the demands of the great commandment, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind," can unfailingly be fulfilled by reflection of that Mind which is divine, not human.
Public attention, generally, has been called to the educational campaign now being carried on by the American Society for the Control of Cancer for the purpose of promoting through the press, public platform, and other channels the society's views regarding the cause, treatment, and cure of this dread disease.
In order that your readers may not be misled by the "chat" on Christian Science, which appeared in a recent issue of your paper, will you permit me to point out some of the misconceptions on the subject which "Physician" is evidently laboring under?
Kindly permit me to correct a misstatement regarding Christian Science made in an address by a surgeon in Hamilton, as reported in The Herald recently.
In an issue of the Rochdale Times there were published some excerpts from the monthly letter of a vicar to his parishioners, under the heading, "Beyond the Veil.
About fifteen years ago, while I was still depending upon materia medica, I was ill, and the doctors diagnosed my trouble as fibroid interstitial tumor.
Before knowing anything about it, I had heard Christian Science spoken of and ridiculed as an "American craze," and I never dreamed that it was anything deeper than that and that it could possibly have any meaning to me, until I came into actual touch with its teaching and began to read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
J. S. Mills
with contributions from Bird A. Walker
In 1912 I was led to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy, to see if there was hope through it to save the life of a member of our family, who was then critically ill.
Available articles from members of The Mother Church and good testimonies from those healed by Christian Science are always welcomed for consideration by the Editors.
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