While
one of the many good concerts which the radio constantly brings to us was being enjoyed, it was noted that the voice of the soloist suddenly lost its sweet tone and became harsh and unlovely.
In
the hubbub of the busy work-a-day world, how often we see evidences of hurry! Restless energy, hasty judgment, impatient actions, all indicate a wrong manner of thinking.
In the issue of your esteemed paper of August 1, I again find a letter wherein Christian Science is mentioned—this time as a reply to my remarks about our critic's letter from Los Angeles.
J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,
I respectfully request permission to correct through your columns the erroneous inference that Christian Science is a "no-God religion," which appeared in an article from the Watchman-Examiner reprinted in the Record on August 16.
Arthur J. Chapman, Committee on Publication for the State of Louisiana,
Misunderstanding of the teachings of Christian Science is undoubtedly responsible for a criticism of that religion in your issue of the 23d, appearing in a church notice.
Robert Ramsey, Committee on Publication for Lanarkshire, Scotland,
In your issue of July 19 there is a report of a sermon preached by a bishop in the course of which the bishop is credited with saying that "fantastic types of belief such as spiritualism, Christian Science, and magical sacramentalism had gained new vitality" through a revival of superstition.
Miss Edith L. Thomson, Committee on Publication for Queensland, Australia,
A correspondent in the Evening News of August 2 writes regarding comment that has been expressed about the Rockhampton Agricultural Society's keeping its show open on a Sunday.
On
a certain occasion the Jews sought to kill Jesus "because he not only had broken the sabbath [by healing a man who had been diseased for thirty-eight years], but said also that God was his Father.
Twenty-five years ago The Mother Church offices numbered three, as follows: a combined Directors' and Clerk's office, the Treasurer's office, and that of the Committee on Publication.
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.
During the twelve years since I took up the study of Christian Science so many blessings have come to me that an account of them all would fill volumes.
It has been my privilege to have Christian Science as my only physician, my mother having been wonderfully healed a few years before her marriage, when physicians had given her only twenty-four hours to live.
All my life I had believed in the power of love, but not knowing the difference between the divine and the human, I had never found a love that would stand the test; and, consequently, my life had been one disappointment after another, until I was afraid to hope for anything good for fear of being disappointed.
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