April 12, 1924
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It
is a common practice with men to endeavor to gain their ends by what suggest themselves as the easiest possible methods; that is to say, by the smallest expenditure of exertion.
MARY BAKER EDDY,
the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in "No and Yes".
As
the earnest student of Christian Science, after some years of honest effort to assimilate and practice its teachings, looks back over his experience, he may recognize much improvement, enlightenment, and mental freedom.
IF
we accept the record of creation as given in the first chapter of Genesis, wherein "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good," admitting that God made all things good, and that He fills all space, we cannot at the same time believe that evil also exists, as comprised in sickness, sin, limitation, and poverty.
In a recent issue of the News a minister is quoted as having given Christian Science credit for bodily cures; but he also expressed his belief that "they were diseases that yield to suggestion.
The Christian Science teachings pertaining to pain, and the method employed by that religion in overcoming pain, are made perfectly clear in the writings of Mrs.
Christian Science does not deny that sin appears to be a reality in human experience.
The purpose of Mary Baker Eddy in establishing the Christian Science church was, in her own words, "To organize a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing".
The "Cappy Ricks" story in your issue of January 11 contains the implications that Christian Science practice is the use of suggestion, and that it is good only for imaginary diseases.
There is no connection whatever between Christian Science and Coueism.
In the November issue of your valued magazine, on page 279, appears a reprint of a humorous nature under the heading "Prompt Identification.
For the State of Rhode Island.
There
is a great call for patience and steadfastness in the work of the Christian Scientist.
Applications for admission to membership in The Mother Church may be sent to the Clerk at any time throughout the year.
Churches and societies in the United States proper and in the Dominion of Canada wishing to give lectures during the first two months of the next lecture year, namely, July and August, 1924, are requested to infrom the Board of Lectureship, if possible, before June 1.
In the latter part of the year 1915 I had what the world calls a terrible accident: a leaden bullet, discharged from a thirty-eight caliber gun, passed through my body close to the heart.
I have been a student of Christian Science for fifteen years.
Christian Science is the greatest thing that has ever come into my life.
When I was fourteen years old I became a member of a church.
Christian Science has meant so much to me in the healing of sorrow and loss that I feel I must express my gratitude in the hope that it may help others, as many earnest and sincere testimonies have helped me.
Words cannot express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me.
Some time ago I was led to Christian Science in a wonderful way.
It is with a heart filled with gratitude for Christian Science that this testimony of its wonderful healing power is written.
Before coming into Christian Science I had suffered from malaria for sixteen years.
I learned many lessons from my first healing in Christian Science.
How
often do we idly wait for something big and grand!The opportunity we want seems ne'er the one at hand.
