A Recent
applicant for membership in The Mother Church wrote, "I have always thought that one should be perfect and have had many wonderful demonstrations before one could become a member.
Although
Christian Science is applicable to our every human problem and is available in every circumstance of our lives, young Christian Scientists who wish to learn to be truly scientific Christians need to analyze the motives which lie behind the desire to make what we call a demonstration.
Miss Maude A. Law, Committee on Publication for Barbados, British West Indies,
In your "Religious and Philanthropic Notes" in the Barbados Advocate there was a reference to Christian Science which needs explanation, and I therefore ask the favor of space in your paper for that purpose.
As
if in amplification of the first of the Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," the second prohibits the making, worshiping, or serving of graven images or the likeness of any material thing.
The
revelation of Christian Science lifts us above gloomy superstition, sanctimonious suffering, or the belief that backward steps prelude forward steps, and vice versa.
The publication of a vest pocket edition of Science and Health in antique grain, autumn brown morocco, now makes this edition of the textbook available in black, blue, or brown morocco, paper lined.
When Christian Science was presented to me ten years ago, I had been ill for over three months with what a specialist diagnosed as acute liver trouble affecting the diaphragm and the lungs.
Recently while completing some knitting which required very close, steady work, I became aware of the fact that though my eyes were completely healed over fourteen years ago, I had never written a testimony for the Christian Science periodicals.
I am always glad to express my gratitude for Christian Science, and I especially appreciate our periodicals, which provide a wider opportunity for expressing this gratitude.
In Isaiah we read, "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
OH,
Thou almighty power above,Who rulest us alone with love,Thou, now and ever, be our guide,Thy wisdom sure, all good betide;May we no error, sin, or painAccept, or falsely entertain;No sorrow, gloom, or sudden fearBe near us while sojourning here;May Thy dear love keep sin away,And lighten for us every day.
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