Christian Science,
given to the world by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, is the great and final revelation of divine Love, and of Love's expression, man and the universe.
The
Apostle James impressed upon the first Christians the need of having a "pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father;" and in the course of his epistle he said: "Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you?
For
long centuries a great amount of time and effort has been spent in searching for deliverance from the bondage enforced upon mankind by false material theories and beliefs, which carry with them trials, discords, and disappointments.
Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Pennsylvania,
An article appearing in your recent issue under the heading "Curing by Faith" purports to emanate from an adherent of "an independent minority movement in Christian Science.
Theodore Burkhart, Committee on Publication for the State of Oregon,
In his address here before the Pacific slope Congregational congress, as reported in the Oregonian, a doctor gave some interesting figures bearing upon the possibility of a shifting of Christian leadership west of the Rockies from five of the older representative Protestant denominations to three of the "newer sects," reporting that the Christian Scientists, the Mormons, and Seventh Day Adventists show a gain of seven hundred and seventeen churches in this territory over a ten-year period, as against a loss of five hundred and six on the part of the Baptists, Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Presbyterians.
Examination
for membership in a Christian Science church is not merely to ascertain how much an applicant knows of Christian Science, but also to learn how greatly he desires to know more.
The
references to the life, experience, and habits of the Master with which the four Gospels are replete stir the sentiments of love and veneration which constitute worship; and no custom of his, perhaps, makes stronger appeal than his habit of frequent prayer.
Until
Christian Science revealed to humanity the scientific, enlightened mode of thinking, true and false thoughts were accepted without much discrimination.
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