Much
is being written and said at present by doctors of medicine on the subject of preventive medicine, which is a recently developed branch of their activities supposedly designed to prevent, or it may be to postpone, illness.
To
be "a doorkeeper in the house of my God" implies the activity of vigilance in individual consciousness, securing orderly entrance for constructive thoughts.
Theodore Burkhart, Committee on Publication for the State of Oregon,
Christian Scientists do not initiate or invite controversy, nor have we any quarrel with others who hold different opinions, but when misleading or incorrect statements are made about Christian Science or Mrs.
Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
Christian Scientists agree with our surgeon-critic's statement in your issue of recent date, that "wishing to be well rarely corrects a real physical defect," for human will-power is as foreign to Christian Science practice as is materia medica.
Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Pennsylvania,
Christian Science is mentioned in the account of a sermon as being one of several teaching which destroy faith in God, in Christ Jesus, in prayer, and as deceiving the people.
The
beginning of each year is always a time of balancing accounts; most of the world then weighs its past efforts in order that it may know just how it stands.
The attention of clerks and committees of branch churches in the United States, having in charge arrangements for lectures, is called to the necessity of having the information reach the Editorial Department at least four weeks before the date of the lecture, in order to insure publication in the Sentinel.
I shall never cease to be grateful for the first healing which I received through Christian Science, for it proved beyond any doubt the great and grand truth that God is All-power and ever present Love.
About five years ago I began to read the works of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and I was so struck by her logical and common-sense teaching that I soon became a convert to the Science of Christianity and spiritual healing.
From early childhood I was considered very nervous; and as I grew into womanhood I became a nervous wreck, taking medicine most of the time, but getting no relief.
with contributions from C. W. Brown, William S. Sadler, J. L. Paton's, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
[Review of "The Constitutional History of Scotland from Early Times to the Reformation," by Professor James MacKinnon, in the Cape Argus, Cape Town, South Africa, July 17, 1924]
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