Our
beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, very strongly emphasizes the importance of understanding and obeying the Ten Commandments, when she says in "Miscellaneous Writings".
In
human experience there comes a time when the joys of material sense fail to satisfy, and one becomes conscious of a desire to know something about God, to gain a higher, holier concept of God as Love.
Lewis B. Sawyer, Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri,
In an article which appeared in your recent issue, entitled "Faith Healing," the writer has unfortunately referred to Christian Science as having an hypnotic influence upon its followers.
Cecil E. Benjamin, Committee on Publication for the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa,
Christ Jesus was preeminently the wisest man who ever trod the earth, and there are indications that the world is beginning to realize that he was also the most practical.
Miss Frederikke Lie, Committee on Publication for Norway,
Recently in your esteemed paper a lecture by a professor was reported in which, together with theosophy, spiritism, and Buddhism, Christian Science was mentioned as a substitute for true Christianity, and as the opposite of the genuine merchandise.
Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Pennsylavania,
Your recent issue carries a reprint from a periodical which undertakes to justify an attitude of intolerance toward Christian Scientists and others therein named who differ from its religious views.
Charles H. Parker, Committee on Publication for Cheshire, England,
At the opening ceremony of the Palestine in Macclesfield Exhibition the rural dean made the following arresting remark: "We are constantly losing people who become Christian Scientists, and I suppose the reason is really that people feel that they have no confidence in the power of God, and what they are saying is, 'We want a God of power.
Serenity
—that perfect peace of heartThat dwells wherever faith's loved face is known;That absence of all darkness; that bright partThat lingers where the light of God has shone!
Testimonies of healings brought about at authorized lectures on Christian Science will be published in The Christian Science Journal or the Christian Science Sentinel, when verified as are other testimonies appearing in the periodicals.
I have had many reasons to be grateful for Christian Science during the twenty-one years since my parents first became interested through the complete healing of an aunt from total blindness, after unsuccessful treatment by specialists.
I should like to express my gratitude for the understanding Christian Science has given me of the Bible and for the ability to apply its teachings in my everyday life.
Words fail me when I try to express what the spiritual gain attendant upon the earnest study of the Bible and of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and the thoughtful reading of The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel, brings to me.
Having been told by several physicians that I should never be well, and that I was liable to drop dead at any time, anywhere, I began the study of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
Sickness, profound sorrow caused by the death of dear relatives, as well as anxiety and worry about the daily needs of myself and my children, had brought me to a desperate condition.
Christian Science has healed me of many physical ills, such as pneumonia, ptomaine poisoning, bronchitis, a tendency to take cold frequently, and an injury to my foot which pained me considerably and made walking almost impossible.
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