Our
understanding of prayer, of its capacity, its power, and its joy, must depend upon our understanding of God and upon our intimate sense of communion with Him.
A young
woman who took up the profession of Christian Science nursing was once asked why she followed that line of work, and her reply was that by serving God and her fellow men in this manner she felt she was expressing at least to some extent her gratitude for what Christian Science had done for her.
In
schools and in colleges the world over, the main thought of every student who really desires to advance is to do all he can honorably do to gain high marks and to pass his grade.
In
Thee, O God, abides eternal gladness,The oil of joy for mourning, grief, and care;True beauty for the ashes of earth's sadness,The garment of Thy praise for dull despair.
Mrs. Mary Blanch Jones, Committee on Publication for Gloucestershire, England,
In a recent issue, under the heading "Religion in India," a lecturer is reported to have stated that "many of the doctrines of Buddhism have been brought into Christian Science.
Robson Storey, Committe on Publication for the State of Arkansas,
Will you kindly allow me space in your paper for the correction of a misleading statement concerning healing of the sick through the power of prayer, made by a local pastor in your issue of May 7?
Announcement is made of the following new postcard views of The Mother Church, the Publishing House, the Administration Building, the Pleasant View Home, and the Sanatorium of The Christian Science Benevolent Association in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
Christian Science has been known to me practically all my life, as my mother became interested in it when I was four years old; and since that time I have never had any other physician.
Charles Miner Simmonds
with contributions from Mae Steen Simmonds
From 1902 to 1907 I speculated in stocks, trying to accumulate a fortune, and was quite successful until the panic of 1907, which swept over the country, carrying with it my entire savings, and leaving me completely destitute, with many obligations and a family to support.
Christian Science was first brought to my attention in the year 1898, when I witnessed the healing of a sister who was freed from various ailments which had defied the skill of many physicians for years, but which yielded to Christian Science treatment in two weeks.
Some twenty years ago Christian Science was brought to my bedside while I was a patient in a hospital, where I had been taken to undergo an operation of a very serious nature, having been told by several physicians that unless I submitted to this operation I should be confined to a wheel chair for the rest of my life.
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