It
is worthy of comment that with the progress of humanity Bible students everywhere are learning more of the dignity and power of "the simplicity that is in Christ," as Paul declared.
How
often there comes to us a sense of humble gratitude when, through the glorious light of Christian Science, we receive a new and better understanding of some verse or verses in the Bible! In the ninth chapter of Matthew, in three brief verses, there is told simply and concisely the healing of the woman who had been diseased for twelve years.
As
a friendly guide and unfailing source of wise direction, the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy grows daily in the appreciation of the Christian Scientist.
"Father,
I thank thee that thou hast heard me," cried our Master before the tomb of Lazarus, in the face of an audience skeptical, perhaps, or at any rate full of human sympathy.
It
may be they come in the morning,It may be they come in the night,It may be they come at the hour,Or come with the waning light;It may be they come when we 're watching,It may be they come while we sleep;But they come, oh, they come from the Father,Who ever His vigil doth keep!
Fred Yould, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia,
In your recent issue you copied a joke in which a little girl—supposedly attending a Christian Science Sunday School—was spoken of in a manner intended to ridicule Christian Science.
Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
In your recent issue you report an evangelist as having said that Christian Scientists "do not believe that there is a hell; neither do they believe that Christ Jesus was divine.
In
the forceful language which, in general, characterizes his letters, Paul wrote to the church in Corinth that the children of Israel owed their release from the many perils which attended their wilderness journeying to the fact that they "did all drink the same spiritual drink; for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them; and that Rock was Christ.
Generally
speaking, men have believed when gifts have been presented to them that these gifts have been given with the expectation that they were to be used in such fashion as pleased the fancy of the recipients.
To insure that complete lecture notices be printed in the Sentinel, detailed information should reach the Editorial Department regarding lectures in the United States and Canada, at least four weeks before the date of the lecture; in Great Britain and Ireland, at least five weeks before; in other European countries, at least eight weeks before.
Articles from members of The Mother Church and good testimonies from those healed by Christian Science are always welcomed for consideration by the Editors.
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