During
the progress of a church building committee meeting the writer was strongly impressed with the lessons which may be learned from those parts of a building which are not seen, but yet are vital to its stability.
When
day grows dark, I look to Thee,And in the very placeWhere deepest shadows seemed to beI see Thee face to face;Since Thou art Life, Thou fillest space.
Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,
An author who has acquired a reputation for accurate writing has defined a correct use of the word "science" as follows: "So soon as a field of inquiry yields knowledge susceptible of exact formulation, it is called science.
Hugh Stuart Campbell, Committee on Publication for the State of Illinois,
In a recent issue of your Journal a correspondent, while truthfully explaining the necessity of giving heed to the mental state of his patient while treating cases of high blood pressure, conveyed a false impression of the methods employed in Christian Science practice when he mentioned our religion among healing agencies "in which the laying on of hands is the method of suggestion.
Miss Fredrikke Lie, Committee on Publication for Norway,
In a recent issue of your paper is cited an article by the domprost, in which Christian Science is mentioned as an endeavor to substitute the old gospel with human wisdom's words.
with contributions from Vivian Guy, Florence B. Dean, Mary E. Lighty, Ada Bennet
"It was a great privilege to have been allowed to spend a short ten days amid so much peace, quiet joy, and loving care as are to be found at the Christian Science sanatorium, near Boston; for all of which I am very deeply grateful.
Right
persuasion is a gentle method of approach which, when used in favor of all that is good and true, wins many to better ways of thinking and living where aggressive arguments only repel.
An Index to Volume XXIX of the Christian Science Sentinel will be published in the near future, and will be sent upon application to all wishing to bind the Sentinel.
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.
Anna F. Ettinger
with contributions from Walter E. Ettinger
This testimony is written in loving gratitude to God, infinite good, to Christian Science, to Mary Baker Eddy, and to the loving practitioner who guided my steps into Christian Science.
Twenty-two years is a long time to wait to express, through our Christian Science periodicals, my gratitude to God for a healing that brought so much joy and peace into a home that had offered its all of material goods in exchange for health during nine years of invalidism and semi-invalidism without receiving any good in return.
Although I had known of Christian Science for several years, and had seen several healings in my home and believed that with God's help a great deal is possible, I did not take any great interest in this Science until I was placed in a position where I proved that with God's help everything is possible.
Many years ago I was convinced that I was very ill, and knowing nothing about Christian Science at that time, I consulted a physician, who pronounced the illness to be caused by congestion of the capillaries at the base of the brain.
I thank God that through a lecture on Christian Science my eyes were opened to the existence of a spiritual realm and life, when I had hitherto believed only in the unhappy material life of which I had grown tired.
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