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the primary grades of a large city school system, one of the devices for instructing the children in spelling is to build words and sentences with letters of the alphabet set on squares.
In your paper there was an announcement of a lecture to be given by a returned missionary on the subject, "There Thousand Years of Hinduism," in which the statement was made that "for two thousand years India has given to the world her false religions, among which are Christian Science, theosophy," et cetera.
When the priests of the first century opposed and denounced those scientific Christians, Peter and other apostles, the Bible states that Gamaliel, a wise doctor of the law, advised the priests, "Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
My attention has been called to a statement appearing in the Pilot which claims that "Christian Science was practiced under another name centuries before the Christian era by the Orientals.
with contributions from Carlotta Scobey Signor, Kate V. Keatley, Joseph Maxwell Carrere, Jennie Louise Haskell, William B. Shearon, Jessie A. Currier, Johannes Wachter-Grasslin, A. Victor Gilbert
It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I wish to add this testimony to the healing power of Christian Science; and I hope it will be a benefit to others on their way from sense to Soul.
The Bible was a closed book to me before I began the study of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
About fifteen years ago I was troubled with weak eyes; and when I was given glasses, I was told that they would do only for five years and would then have to be changed for stronger ones.
For many years I had been a sufferer from what doctors call hernia or rupture, and was told by physicians whom I consulted that my only relief would be in an operation; but through all my sufferings I believed in God, although I did not know how to turn to Him for healing, until a dear lady who was visiting here from Canton, Ohio, heard of my suffering and told me I could be healed through Christian Science.
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with contributions from Carlotta Scobey Signor, Kate V. Keatley, Joseph Maxwell Carrere, Jennie Louise Haskell, William B. Shearon, Jessie A. Currier, Johannes Wachter-Grasslin, A. Victor Gilbert