What
the Christian Science movement needs to-day is more working Christian Scientists,—those who have attained a degree of spiritual understanding and can consistently say that they are "in Christian Science.
The
world to-day is interested in the newly discovered splendors of ancient Egypt, and is filled with amazement at the extraordinary preservation of articles fashioned thousands of years ago.
How
difficult seem those periods of waiting, of apparent inactivity, when the heavens seem as brass and no sign is given! If only a little word of assurance could be heard, only a whisper that the reward of faithfulness is at hand! Faithfulness! But how can we remain faithful when no activity seems allowed us?
In
the nineteenth chapter of I Kings is an account of an experience through which the prophet Elijah passed; and the passage will well repay careful study by the student of Christian Science.
Moses
, the great lawgiver, saw the need for mankind to turn away from the false belief in gods many to the understanding of God as Spirit, as the one power.
The
falling of the leaves in the autumn is generally associated with a sense of loss; and more particularly so where those varieties of trees grow in which the change is rapidly accomplished.
There is to-day a laudable tendency among denominations of Christian believers to lay aside certain creedal differences, and to unite in aim and effort on the basis of fundamental spiritual truths such as are acceptable to all.
Hugh Stuart Campbell, Committee on Publication for the State of Illinois,
On the title page of your publication you define in part the admirable policy of it to be as follows: "The Christian Century is a free interpreter of essential Christianity.
In
the familiar eighth chapter of Romans, Paul contrasts the works of the Spirit with the beliefs of the flesh, emphasizing both the power of the Spirit over the flesh, and the necessity for the followers of Christ Jesus to gain and exercise the ascendancy which the Spirit confers.
When
Paul wrote to the church at Rome, "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good," he stated the scientific method of healing discord of every kind.
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Prejudice kept me from Christian Science for three long, dark, and bitter years, though again and again I experienced the great peace and rest in my parents' house, where my mother and sister were studying it.
I did not come to Christian Science for physical healing, though I was in great need of that too; but I came seeking relief for a mental unrest and depression that at times seemed greater than I could stand.
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