November 29, 1930
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When
the understanding of God as omnipotent good is revealed to us through Christian Science, the false belief in a personal devil, which is always obstructing one's efforts towards well-doing, is seen as an ignorant superstition.
One
of the outstanding facts in the Bible is the immediacy with which God's power is demonstrated when the law of God is understood and correctly applied.
While
one was being instructed in the art of driving an automobile, the instructor laid emphasis on one point, saying, "Claim your road.
A popular
pastime is to solve the puzzle of finding one's way out of an inclosure consisting of many aisles.
A student
of Christian Science was recently faced with a problem of dissatisfaction.
In your issue of Monday, July 14, there appears a report of a sermon by a bishop, dealing with the moral and intellectual unrest that now exists in England.
Your esteemed newspaper contained on the third of May an article by a missionary priest with the heading, "Asian Currents in Norwegian Spiritual Life.
The sentence as quoted from the Christian Science textbook reads: "The blood, heart, lungs, brain, etc.
One
misty morn the throes of mortal thoughtEncircled me about as bands of steel,Which tore the very fiber of my soul.
Christian Science
teaches the truth about reality, and thereby enables its students to distinguish between the real and the unreal.
Article
Conditions which seem to have followed unemployment have necessitated various steps for the relief of families suffering from loss of income.
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.
Many years ago I heard of Christian Science through a friend who gave me some pamphlets which I eagerly studied.
About twenty-five years ago I was an earnest worker in a Presbyterian church.
In 1919 I turned to Christian Science as a last resort and through it was healed instantaneously of a physical trouble which had given me serious difficulty for many years.
Christian Science was first brought to my notice near the end of the war by a chance visitor who saw I was in dire need of help.
Though I have been a student of Christian Science for only about two years it has been lovingly proved to me that, as our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures".
Several years ago Christian Science was proved to us to be the law of God when our infant son was relieved instantly from pain.
My husband became very ill and four doctors decided nothing but morphine would keep him alive.
"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
My first reading of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, many years ago, was undertaken, not as a search for physical healing or religious teaching, but to gratify a desire to read a much talked-of book.
This testimony is given in loving gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me.
We have depended upon Christian Science in our home for sixteen years.
Gentle
Spirit, this I see—Justice, mercy, dwell with Thee,In Thy presence, From aboveIs our comfort, peace, and love;And Thy tender, loving careComes through daily earnest prayer,Till the vision, pure and bright,Fills our hearts with God's daylight.
[The Bishop of Southwark, in the Holy Trinity Parish Magasine, Halifax, Yorkshire, England]
