December 15, 1923
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Inasmuch
as a church organization is an aggregation of individuals, it necessarily follows that the spiritual status and progressive aspects of the organization are dependent upon the collective spiritualized consciousness of the church body as a whole.
In
a comparatively recent issue of the Christian Science Sentinel, a writer discussed the subject of the Christian Science practitioner and the temptation that sometimes comes to him to advise patients to make investments in some commercial enterprise that within his knowledge is being promoted, and which he may honestly believe to have great merit.
Ashort
time ago, in a large and crowded city, it was thought advisable by the authorities that a rule of the road applying to pedestrians should be altered.
If
a counterfeit coin should come into our possession, we would immediately stop its circulation: and that would indeed be a commendable act! In this connection the writer has been pondering the questions: Do I as gladly and as quickly stop the counterfeit concepts of man which daily knock at the door of my consciousness for admittance?
It
is very interesting and helpful to find how many times in the Bible, and in our dear Leader's writings, the little, very significant word "let" is used.
Christian Science teaches that Christ is the Son of God, as Christ Jesus himself declared, and also that every individual spiritual man is the son of God.
The teachings of Christian Science have opened the eyes of many who had been blinded by the mesmeric belief that life is in matter and is subject to matter; and it has often thereby healed them instantaneously of disease pronounced incurable by medical science.
The critic seeks to interpret some of Christ Jesus' sayings and works in such a manner as to have it appear that Jesus not only indorsed material means for healing but actually resorted to such methods.
Branch churches and societies, and Christian Scientists all over the world, acknowledge Mary Baker Eddy as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.
Christian Science depends entirely on God, the divine Mind, as the only instrumentality and potency in healing.
Christian Scientists and faith healers are not synonymous terms.
If
one were to be told that there is a way whereby his entire existence may be made harmonious; whereby all evil may be eliminated from his experience so that only good may appear; that in place of sickness he may find health; instead of poverty he may have abundance; that happiness will take the place of sorrow; in fact, that no error of any sort can find a resting place in his career,—where is the person who would not loudly acclaim that he would immediately undertake to enter that path and walk in it to its perfect goal?
One
of the things which strikes the student early in his study of Christian Science is the effort Mrs.
Many times I have turned to the testimonies published in our periodicals for help and inspiration, and never without increased joy and thankfulness.
In the past twenty-two years I have been the grateful recipient of many blessings resulting from the application of the truth as taught in Christian Science.
In March, 1917, while I was operating a ripsaw, a hardwood splinter struck me in the right eye, cutting the eyeball across the pupil.
I feel I have waited too long to express my gratitude through one of the periodicals for the numberless blessings which have come to me and mine through our beloved Leader's teachings.
That Christian Science does heal quickly was proved to me several summers ago.
I should like to express my deep gratitude for Christian Science—for all the good, the freedom, and the happiness which the knowledge of this truth is bringing into my life.
I am being regenerated and am "a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Over ten years ago I turned to Christian Science for physical healing, being in a critical condition as the result of a railroad accident.
Christian Science has been my only physician since I was a child.
I wish to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me.
I wish to express my gratitude for all the blessings I have received through the study of Christian Science.
Teach
me to know Thy way, O Love divine,That I may walk therein and never stray;That I may ever feel my hand in Thine,Leading me upward to the perfect day.
