As
defined in the dictionaries, office means "function, activity, a duty to perform, service, business, responsibility, that which a person does for others, or a duty that arises from one's relation with others.
For
many centuries earnest Christians uninstructed by Christian Science have striven to obey God's will; but it has been the general conviction that it is impossible to obey God's commands entirely here on earth; that only in "heaven" can complete obedience to God be demonstrated; and that heaven can be reached only through what is believed to be the experience of death.
Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The Mother Church
As reported in a recent issue of your paper, a physician spoke somewhat favorably of Christian Science, but said, "How anybody can profess to cure something they claim does not exist is more than I can understand.
Sometimes
I want to linger on the hills,And gather flowers that grow along the way,And dip my tired feet in sparkling rills,That laugh as little children laugh at play:But from these dreams of sense that error fillsI must go on.
A writer
in a metropolitan newspaper recently prefaced a discussion of present-day conditions in the business world by declaring it "too bad that some one has not introduced Christian Science into business, where it would be sure to work.
About ten years ago, I first became interested in Christian Science through a friend; and through reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and the kind help of my friend, I was healed of asthma, from which I had suffered for thirty-eight years.
Of all the many blessings which my family and I have received through Christian Science, I wish to relate one in particular, which left a deep impression upon us.
For a good many years I was troubled with a chronic form of appendicitis, coupled with hereditary heart trouble, together with indigestion in a very pronounced form.
I send this testimony as an expression of gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me, and hope it will be of help to some one who is bound as I was.
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