December 27, 1924
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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.
The
Bible, in whatever history it gives of the children of Israel, is almost entirely concerned with their spiritual progress.
To
be "a doorkeeper in the house of my God" implies the activity of vigilance in individual consciousness, securing orderly entrance for constructive thoughts.
When
, shortly after coming into Christian Science, a dear practitioner asked me, "Why does man exist?
The Christian Science Monitor
should be indispensable in the home and to every student of Christian Science.
In an article in the Tribune recently, the writer shows that he believes Christian Science to be a method of curing disease by suggestion.
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.
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.
In reference to the question asked in a recent issue of your paper, I should like to make a brief reply.
In your issue of recent date, there is a veiled reference to Christian Science by a critic who makes statements that might not be understood.
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.
Article
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.
On first coming into Christian Science I read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
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.
When I came to Christian Science several years ago it was for physical healing.
While in the Motor Transport Service in France, in 1918, I became greatly exhausted through exposure and much work.
About twenty years ago the seed of Truth was sown in my consciousness when I heard a lady relate in detail the healing of a financial problem.
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.
I hereby wish to express my gratitude for all the good which I have received since I have been in Christian Science.
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.
The beautiful teachings of Christian Science and its healings power have been proved to me in many ways, physically and mentally.
I was paralyzed on one side, and two doctors said I should never be able to do anything again.
He
walked in the paths of the lowly,He sat at the rich man's feast,With ever a word for the highest,And ever a thought for the least.
[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]
