CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
often testify to the fact that through the study of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, they have gained an enlarged understanding of the Bible, many passages which before were obscure having been illumined, and incidents which were considered supernatural having been satisfactorily explained and found to be applicable to present needs, in a manner previously unthought of.
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<p>"A glorious day is dawning, <br>And o'er the waking earth <br>The heralds of the morning <br>Are springing into birth.
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the cover of that wonderful little messenger, the Christian Science Quarterly, which brings to us so much food for daily thought, is the picture of an olive branch.
Douglas L. Edmonds, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
Through all the centuries which have intervened since Jesus' time, many people of widely differing religious belief have endeavored to find an answer to Pilate's momentous question, "What is truth?
Charles W. Hale, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,
It is a mistake to class Christian Science with the various phases of occultism and so-called mental healing mentioned in the article under discussion, and to intimate that it is what is commonly termed an "Oriental" doctrine.
Lester B. McCoun, Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,
Christ Jesus laid great stress on the works resulting from true understanding and obedience, well knowing, as his own experience proved, that the corrective effects of the spirituality he taught and demonstrated include the healing of disease as well as the overcoming of sin and death.
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God is good; our loss means gain, When earth has dropped its fretting chain, And mortal cares have ceased to sway O'er hearts too troubled, oft, to pray.
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very fact that evil is unreal, a fact revealed by Christian Science in the light of the truth that God, good, is infinite, necessitates watchfulness on the part of those who have accepted it.
Christian Scientists who have contributed to The Mother Church "Fund for Relief in the Near East" will be pleased to know that the distribution of money and supplies is now being carried on by one of our church representatives who is at Constantinople.
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.
For more than three years before I heard of Christian Science, I was constantly suffering from what the doctors called chronic appendicitis, together with stomach and bowel trouble in a very severe form; and as long as I can remember I had suffered from nervous headaches, which grew more unbearable as time went on.
I should like to express my gratitude for the good I have received through Christian Science, but could not take the time or the space to enumerate all the specific blessings that flood my memory when I reflect on the past few years.
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Lord hath said, Be not afraid! Fear not! Thy heart, bowed low beneath its load of grief unutterable, Shall learn a sympathy so great, so broad, That thou shalt clasp His hand, and know That Love alone is God!
The contract for the publication and sale of the Works of Mary Baker Eddy, entered into between the Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy and The Christian Science Publishing Society in October, 1917, was rescinded by mutual agreement on June 15, 1922.
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