To
the watching and listening thought of the shepherds came the song of the angels, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Christian Scientists
are in possession of great wealth in the realization that it is their privilege to know that the law of God, good, is constantly in operation, and always steadily in the one direction of uplifting them from the beliefs in evil and their unhappy results which mortals seem to think it is necessary for them to experience.
In
the tenth chapter of the Gospel according to Mark it is related that as Jesus "went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimæus, the son of Timæus, sat by the highway side begging.
The
Bible is replete with admonitions as to the error of borrowing trouble; but no passage decries this habit so emphatically, or enjoins in God more resolutely, than does the sixth chapter of Matthew, verses twenty-five to thirty-four.
There
is no more lovely episode in the story of Jesus' birth than that of the shepherds, to whom came the angel choir singing of the coming of the Christ.
Now dawns within my consciousnessThe first faint gleams of light —The star of Bethlehem rising;Its beams dispel the nightWhose clouds of sense would seem to hide God's presence from my sight.
Frank Savage, Committee on Publication for Nottinghamshire, England,
You gave in a recent issue of the Guardian the address of the incoming president of the British Medical Association, who is to be congratulated on the generous manner in which he reviewed the question of religious healing.
J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,
The caption, "Christianity Alone Can Save the World," used as a heading in your recent report of an address by a London bishop before the State College students in Ames, is agreed to most heartily.
Theodore Burkhart, Committee on Publication for the State of Oregon,
In the "Diet and Health" column in your recent issue there are quoted from the Medical Herald various answers to the question of why one's back aches, as they are laconically given by the "herb man," the "shoe doctor," the "dentist," the "osteopath," and others, including "It don't ache" as the declaration of "C.
with contributions from Wilfred Tempest, Walter M. Harrison, Robert Edwin Post, Charlotte F. Mueller, Albert Espey, Struan Robertson, Jr., Anna C. Dickey
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So freely have I received of the blessings which Christian Science brings, that I feel I can do no less than give, trusting that my message may help and cheer some seeker for Truth.
After many years of suffering and operations, and being afflicted with a diseased stomach, the pain of which became acute, I was finally told that nothing more could be done for me, the doctor suggesting that I try Christian Science.
I wish to express my gratitude for the many blessings received through Christian Science and for the knowledge of God's ever-presence which I have gained through its teachings.
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with contributions from Wilfred Tempest, Walter M. Harrison, Robert Edwin Post, Charlotte F. Mueller, Albert Espey, Struan Robertson, Jr., Anna C. Dickey