There
comes to each one who has been healed by Christian Science the momentous question, Shall I become a member of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist?
Some
earnest seekers after Truth, who have found it difficult to understand the great message to humanity which is contained in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, after reading this textbook once have placed it aside, saying it seemed too abstruse to grasp readily, but at some future time they would read it again.
A man's life should be a stately march to a sweet but unheard music, and when to his fellows it shall seem irregular and inharmonious, he will only be stepping to a livelier measure, or his nicer ear hurry him into a thousand symphonies and concordant variations.
Frederick H. Astley Woodward, Committee on Publication for Devonshire. England,
In your issue of January 23 a clergyman is reported as saying: "I do not suppose there is any more fantastic theory than that on which Christian Science is founded, that matter and body do not exist, and that therefore pain cannot exist, and yet I suppose there has not been any faith healing which has been so successful.
W. Truman Green, Committee on Publication for the State of Florida,
In the February 1 issue of your paper a clergyman, in an article entitled "Jesus the Great Physician," affirms that any miracle of healing which Jesus performed was in harmony with some higher spiritual power or law.
Richard O. Shimer, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,
In your issue of March 31 you printed a part of a sermon in which a clergyman discussed the reality of sin, and took exception to the fact that the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, claims in her teachings that sin is unreal.
Hitherto
the promise has not failed us;Hitherto Thy strength has been our stay;We felt the guiding hand of Love and wisdom—We found the manna ready, day by day.
Since
Christian Science is Science as well as a theology, there is an appropriate course of development by which to acquire its benefits for one's self and extend them to other people.
Isaiah
writes, "Let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together.
At the Wednesday evening meeting in The Mother Church on October 21, the First Reader announced from the desk that in order that the local congregation of The Mother Church might have opportunity to contribute to the building of the new Publishing House, The Christian Science Board of Directors had decided to turn the collections on the third Sunday of each month over to the Church Treasurer to be added to the Publishing House Building Fund, and that this practice would be continued until the contributions from all sources are sufficient to meet the entire cost of the new building.
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.
In the spring of 1905, while I was under the care of a surgeon, a loved brother-in-law sent me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, with the suggestion that I read it when I was through with the surgeon's help.
As I think of all the joy which has come into my life through Christian Science and try to decide which of the many blessings I am most grateful for, I realize that the greatest gift of all is the understanding one gains of God and of man as His image and likeness.
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