February 12, 1927
Content can't be loaded!
How
consistently did the master Christian, Christ Jesus, practice the truth! How perfectly did he prove that he could be in the world but not of it! He walked among his fellow-men, listening to their rehearsals of inharmony and disease, but always so conscious of good as the only reality as to heal all who came to him for healing.
Without
instruction there would be no progress in the world; and without human contact, to share our instruction and blessings with others, selfishness would tend to increase.
The
statement of Jesus, "Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him," is often quoted as though God knew that man lacked something.
It
pleased one little three-year-old boy, as he watched the gentle rain fall upon the green earth, to exclaim, "God is smiling!" And who can say that the metaphor was not a happy one?
The
writer recalls girlhood days when in the absence of "mother" the house became dreary and desolate.
How brave are they whose task it is to keep the small lights gleaming:The mother sitting, book in hand, in some high mountain home; The sailor sending forth the truth into the storm's fierce seeming;The patient farmer waiting for his harvest time to come.
In your recent issue you have an editorial article on a speech in which are given the speaker's views on faith healing, and in which he implies that Christian Science is faith healing, as that term is commonly understood.
Recent issues of your paper announced a discussion by a clergyman, at a public meeting, of the difference between Christian Science and divine healing.
In a recent issue of your paper an article under the heading "Was Jesus a Reformer?
In a recent issue of the Daily News there is an article entitled "Christian Science and Prohibition.
The communication on "Spiritual Healing," in a recent issue of the News, touches a subject which is too important to be disposed of quite so summarily, even though bishops do disagree.
A meeting in the interest of the Christian Science work in the penal institutions of New Jersey, was attended by representatives from about two thirds of the Christian Science churches and societies in the state.
Students
who find in the Scriptures the inspired Word of God endeavor to conform their lives to its mandate.
Most
men realize that they are frequently confronted by an adversary.
Article
Christian Science church buildings the world over are consecrated to divine worship in the manner sanctioned by our Leader.
Article
Applications for admission to membership in The Mother Church may be sent to the Clerk at any time throughout the year.
Article
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.
For the past ten years I have been the recipient from God of blessings without number through Christian Science, and I desire to bear witness to the truth that Christian Science heals.
About six years ago I was persuaded, with some misgivings, to read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
It has long been my desire to express, through one of the periodicals, my gratitude for Christian Science and for what it has done for me and mine.
With deep gratitude I give this testimony.
From early childhood I desired to find the God of love.
Five years ago our little girl was born, and at that time my wife had what was termed blood poisoning.
I am most grateful for Christian Science and for what it has done and is doing for me.
I recall a time when I was told to rejoice.
It is with deep gratitude that I offer the testimony of my healing in Christian Science.
I have great reason to thank God for what Christian Science has done for me.
The first time I heard of Christian Science, in 1911, not knowing anything about it I turned away from it.
