The
Biblical record of the deliverance of the children of Israel, under the leadership of Moses, from the bondage of the Egyptians, is a very interesting and helpful one to the student of Christian Science.
As
the first faint gleam of spiritual understanding enters the heart of the student of Christian Science, there comes to him the peace and confidence of an awakening sense of dominion,—an awakening holding within it the seed of unlimited development.
"Son,
thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine," said the loving father of the prodigal to his elder son; and in these words he gave a succinct and comprehensive statement of man's relation to God.
The
beginner in Christian Science finds that, however deeply steeped he may appear to be in the false beliefs of materiality, Christian Science shows him the way of escape from them.
Before
Christian Science commences to clear away the cobwebs of material thinking, many words, whose highest meaning can be conceived of only from the standpoint of spirituality, are accorded a significance which not only often misses the mark, but would also destroy their beauty.
Peter B. Biggins, Committee on Publication for the Province of Alberta, Canada,
In his epistle to Titus, Paul speaks of the grace of God as "teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.
Miss Marie Hartman, Committee on Publication for Holland,
Christian Science teaches that the consciousness of God's presence and all-potent love is able to deliver men from sickness, because only the expressions of the one divine Mind—the only cause and creator—constitute fundamental truth.
Charles W. Hale, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,
Since Christian Science heals by spiritually correcting both thinking and living, it is not unusual for one to be healed by spiritually comprehending some part of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy; but such cases are not in any sense the perfunctory saying over of a few words.
with contributions from Mary L. Weaver, O. W. Nelson, Clara K. Long
"Several months ago I was taken to the sanatorium of The Christian Science Benevolent Association, to human sense in a critical and helpless condition.
Christian Science was presented to me fifteen years ago, when, after many months of illness, suffering, and prostration, we were brought to the realization that materia medica could help me no further, and our physician frankly told my husband he knew nothing else to do for me.
Thousands of dollars had been spent on materia medica, osteopathy, chiropractic, and surgery to regain my health; but I grew worse until I began to contemplate suicide as the only escape from future suffering.
For some years before coming into contact with Christian Science it had been a growing conviction in my thought that the presentation of Christianity in which my forbears and I had been brought up was not adequate to enable one to carry out the Master's injunctions.
Roger Alston Jones
with contributions from Cecile LaTaste Jones
Words cannot express my gratitude for the holy privilege I enjoy of being a student of Christian Science and a follower of our revered and consecrated Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.
Primarily, I was not attracted to Christian Science by the need of physical healing; but the "little book," "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was the gift from above while I was struggling long and in vain to see clearly as to the questions of individual freedom in one's life-work, untrammeled by tradition, family bands, and public opinion.
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