August 16, 1930
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RESIGNATION,
spiritually and scientifically apprehended, is a very different state of consciousness from that implied in the usual use of the word.
THE
building of a Christian Science church cannot fail to bring growth in the understanding of God to everyone involved in it.
ONE
morning in winter, when the snow lay deep on the ground, the writer noticed a little sparrow hopping about on the back porch, as though in search of something to eat.
ON
visiting a beautiful country one is generally advised to go to the highest point to enjoy the view; and after climbing the hill one is rewarded by a wonderful panorama.
TO
"restitute" is to restore to its rightful owner or place somthing that has been taken away.
IS
there someone who seems held to his seat by a nameless fear from the time the Wednesday evening meeting is open for the giving of testimonies until the closing hymn, and who then goes home depressed by self-condemnation because of his failure to testify?
Recently there appeared in your paper an account of a revival service held in Palmetto wherein a minister, in speaking of sin, is quoted as having said, "Christian Science is denying facts all must inevitably face.
In the issue of December 18 you published a news item under the heading, "Dean.
The report of a sermon on "Mind Cure," as published in the issue of your paper of January 21, has been read with interest.
My attention has just been drawn to a statement about Mrs.
FOLLOWER
of Truth, the call comes hourly; Canst thou not hear the plaintive cry Of earth-bound hearts in human bondage Seeking their higher destiny?
CLEAR
thinking calls for clear distinctions between different concepts and different qualities.
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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.
When about twenty years of age, I served for a time as the superintendent of a Sunday school of the Protestant Episcopal church, of which I was a member.
How often we accept our daily blessings as a matter of course; yet we read in the Scriptures that "every good gift and every perfect gift" is from God, so that even the smallest manifestation of good is worthy of gratitude and praise.
Since I began to rely solely on the true God, whom I found through the study of Christian Science, I have been healed of toothache, influenza, poverty, the drink and smoking habits, a very bad temper, and many business troubles.
It is my desire to use the channel provided by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, through the periodicals to testify to the healing power of Christian Science.
My first attitude toward Christian Scientists was that of pity, for I had been reared in a home which was proud of the long line of orthodox ministers in the family, and I considered any digression from the teachings of our church as a going out after "strange gods.
In the autumn of 1927 Christian Science was first presented to me by a friend, and very soon afterwards I procured the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and began to study it.
With a heart filled with gratitude I wish to testify to the many blessings I have received through the study of Christian Science.
In humble obedience I wish to testify to the healing, protecting, uplifting power of Love which, as a student of Christian Science, I have found and proved through the study of the Bible and our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
Gratitude for the blessings which have come through the study of Christian Science must find its expression in testimony as well as in daily improving conditions, and so I would give my thanks through our periodicals for all that is constantly coming to me as a result of the earnest study of our Leader's writings together with the Bible.
Words are inadequate to express my gratitude for Christian Science, for the wonderful sense of the nearness of God and for the protection it has given me.
