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.
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.
William Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Maryland,
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.
Charles W. Hale, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,
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.
William Kenneth Primrose, Assistant Committee on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
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".
James M. Stevens, Committee on Publication for the State of Minnesota,
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.
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.
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.
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