From
the records of the Old Testament and the writings of the New, and later through the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we learn that God is All-in-all, that He made all, and that man is His image and likeness.
What
wonderful proofs every Christian finds, in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, of the infinite power of God! Still, in how small a degree have Christians, generally, accepted and made use of the ever operative and ever available divine Principle which gives to them, even as the disciples of Jesus were given, "power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease"!
At
the midweek testimony meetings held in all Christian Science churches throughout the world, testimonies may be heard of the healing of sickness and of so-called incurable diseases by Christian Science; also, testimonies of freedom gained from sinful habits, of the healing of sorrow, poverty, and business difficulties; indeed, of every kind of discordant condition of mortal existence—proving the practical value of Christian Science.
"For
'who is so great a God as our God!' unchangeable, all-wise, all-just, all-merciful; the ever-loving, ever-living Life, Truth, Love: comforting such as mourn, opening the prison doors to the captive, marking the unwinged bird, pitying with more than a father's pity; healing the sick, cleansing the leper, raising the dead, saving sinners," writes Mrs.
An
open door into the treasure house of Truth,God hath before thee set;Thou shalt go in and out, and gather priceless pearlsTo pay the world's great debt.
Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,
The following information is offered to the readers of the Beacon Journal because of a letter in your issue of January 21 and an editorial in your issue of January 25.
Miss Kate E. Andreae, Committee on Publication for Sussex, England,
Your correspondent "N," in a recent issue, writes as follows: "That Christian Science contains an element of Christianity is doubtless true, and to this the movement owes its remarkable success.
There are now twelve newspapers throughout Colorado publishing excerpts from the Christian Science Sunday Lesson-Sermons, thus bringing each week to newspaper readers generally, healing quotations from the Bible with correlative quotations from our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
The
regeneration of consciousness which results from its Christianization eliminates all that is unlike spiritual truth; it destroys everything unlike good, all materiality.
The
cursory student of the Bible would no doubt be astonished, were he to search the Scriptures deeply enough, to discover how frequently the mandatory, "It is written," precedes the divine decrees set forth therein.
In view of the substantial economies effected during the past three years through the active cooperation of members of The Mother Church, and of the desirability of insuring the permanence of these economies, new members to be admitted in June, and those who, in former years, were accustomed to pay their annual per capita tax during May, June, and July, are invited to forward their remittances preferably during the six months' period from October to March, following the date.
Churches and Societies in the United States and in the Dominion of Canada which wish to give lectures during the first two months of the next lecture year, namely, July and August, are requested to inform the Board of Lectureship before June 1.
I wish to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me mentally and physically, including an instantaneous healing of palpitation of the heart while attending a lecture on Christian Science.
From childhood I sought a demonstrable understanding of God; and after vainly attempting to find Him in the churches I became an atheist, following Robert Ingersoll and other free thinkers.
I did not come into Christian Science for physical healing, although that was the first sign that something different was taking place in my consciousness.
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