October 6, 1923
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The
Bible is of value to us as we are able to draw therefrom lessons that can be profitable applied to-day.
One
might readily believe, from the evidence which presents itself on every hand, that mortals live and consent to exist because of the promise, instinct and insistent in the human heart, that life is in reality something bigger, and better, and finer than the preponderance of material evidence portrays.
The
Scriptural account of the healing of the one born blind, given in the ninth chapter of John, has given much thought to the Christian Scientist.
Who
among us, if he were told that a priceless gift awaited him, would not make some effort to get it?
"Stretch
forth thine hand"!Man is not bidden to receiveOr sin or sorrow, pain or fear;Our God is not a God afar;His ever-presence dwelleth near,And blesses all.
Christian Science considers the suffering of this world to be the result of conscious or unconscious disobedience to the law of God.
All who are familiar with the teachings of Christian Science know that it is the very opposite of mental suggestion, autosuggestion, mesmerism, or such like.
The Christian Scientist's concept of God agrees perfectly with what Jesus said of himself, as the Son of God, and his relationship to God the Father.
In Christian Science, matter, mortal error, and evil are accepted as synonyms and treated as mere negations, having neither permanence nor real substance.
There can be found nowhere in Mrs.
The Bible tells us that the "word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword.
Had Christianity since Jesus' time fulfilled his law of Love, Christian Science would have been established prior to its discovery by Mary Baker Eddy.
From
that distant day when Cain, in an effort to hide his crime, asked, "Am I my brother's keeper?
When
Jesus said to his disciples, "Condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned," he stated a proposition and its corollary which, when understood and demonstrated, will do away with all the disagreements among men.
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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.
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To insure that complete lecture notices be printed in the Sentinel, detailed information should reach the Board of Lectureship regarding lectures in the United States and Canada, four weeks before the date of the lecture; in Great Britain and Ireland, five weeks before; in other European countries, six weeks before.
It is now two years since I first had the joy of hearing of Christian Science, in Geneva, Switzerland.
I should like to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me.
About two and a half years ago I was startled by an ever increasing deafness.
A dear relative was healed instantaneously through Christian Science treatment.
Thirteen years ago I was a sufferer from stomach trouble.
The greatest help and blessing of my life has come to me through Christian Science.
I want to express my gratitude for a demonstration of God's protecting care which my wife and I experienced in August, 1922.
As with so many others, Christian Science was my last recourse, when it should have been my first.
Words cannot depict fully the deep sense of gratitude I feel for all the benefits God has rendered toward me during the past twelve years, and since the study and application of the teachings of Christian Science were taken up.
Through the study of Christian Science I have learned that Truth is "the strong deliverer," as Mrs.
