February 22, 1930
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While
talking with his disciples a short time before his ascension and endeavoring to make them understand that it was necessary for him to leave them, so that "the Spirit of truth," or the Comforter, might come to them, Christ Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
The
Bible abounds in revolutionary statements of truth, that is, revolutionary to a world which believes in many minds and many theories.
Webster
gives a definition of "height" as "elevation in quality or excellence of any kind.
One
seldom stops to ponder the fact that every thought and act is governed by law.
A minister recently referred to Christian Science, as reported in your paper, in a manner to deceive your readers.
In an article in your esteemed paper of June 12 I find a reference to Christian Science which evidently is based upon a lack of knowledge of this religion, and I therefore ask space for the following information.
On October 16 an article appeared in your paper reporting an address delivered in Carthage by a doctor on the subject "Recent Advances in Medicine.
A few years ago a noted specialist delivered a lecture in Jacksonville on the subject of cancer.
In reporting last Sunday's sermons, the minister of one of your local churches is reported to have said, "If you want to get rich quick, start some religious fad like.
As reported in your issue of Saturday last, a bishop said: "Great masses of the population, to use the rough, modern phrase, had no use for religion.
In a recent issue of the Daily News the writer of an article entitled "Keeping Fit," makes in substance the following statement: That with a good deal of ancient heresy Christian Science has at least recovered the New Testament meaning of the word "salvation.
In
the Lord's Prayer occurs the entreaty, "Give us this day our daily bread.
It
is essential to human welfare that one should know what to accept and what to reject in thought and experience.
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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.
My first healing in Christian Science occurred about sixteen years ago through absent treatments given by a practitioner whom I did not meet until some time later.
I am indeed grateful for Christian Science.
I am very grateful for the happiness and love that are coming to me every day through the understanding of the true nature of God and man as taught in Christian Science.
About seventeen years ago I experienced my first healing in Christian Science, that of chronic constipation, which had troubled me for many years and for which I had taken much medicine.
It is with deepest gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me that I testify to its healing and regenerating power.
The fact that to-day I am perfectly well, physically and mentally, I owe solely to Christian Science.
Christian Science has meant a great deal to me for the past eight years.
It is with a great sense of joy and gratitude that I bear witness to the regenerating power of Christian Science.
Many years ago I testified of healings I had received through reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and the Christian Science Sentinel, at a time when I knew no Christian Scientists.
It is with great gratitude that I send this testimony.
I am writing this testimony in gratitude to Christian Science for a healing I had about six years ago.
Hath life become a seeming blank to thee,Devoid of love, where love did once abound?
