"The
Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration.
What
happy preparations we make when we know that a friend whom we love very much is coming to stay as a guest in our home! The guest chamber is made ready with loving care for his comfort, and the children plan happy little surprises so as to give the visitor as good a time as possible.
Perhaps
in the early morning,In the glow of the rising sun;Perhaps in the tranquil twilightWhen the fight is fought and won,Like fullness of joy after sorrow,Like dew on the thirsting flower,To a heart that is gentle and lovingWill come that radiant hour—When truth on its snowy pinionsLifts thought above sense and sod,In endless adorationTo walk alone with God.
Charles M. Shaw, former Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England,
The anonymous letter on Christian Science in your recent issue is obviously from one who is interested in Christian Science but who has failed to comprehend its teaching on the subject raised.
William J. Fuller, Acting Committee on Publication for Cape Province, South Africa,
In your issue of September 26 a doctor implies that primitive superstition is the basis of Christian Science which "achieves a measure of success;" also that the Christian Science textbook is a "jargon of words.
We
read in "Miscellaneous Writings" that on an Easter Sunday, when the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy was pastor of her church, she presented the Reverend D.
In this column on a few occasions it has been possible to point out the real nature of some paper or document that has been in circulation among Christian Scientists.
When I was a child my mother was healed of a severe nervous breakdown in just a few treatments in Christian Science, after our family physician and a nerve specialist had done all they could for her; but she did not become sufficiently interested in Science to study it until some years later.
Myrtle D. Brown
with contributions from LeRoy C. Brown
Although I have been healed many times by the right application of Christian Science, I did not take up its study for physical healing, but because it satified my desire for a religion that healed people of their diseases, as in the time of Jesus.
It seemed only natural that from early childhood I should be deeply religious, as my grandparents and parents had been very religious, and several ministers of the gospel had been among the family connections.
The first anniversary of Armistice Day, over fourteen years ago, found me without employment or income, and lacking any business experience or professional training.
For many years before Christian Science came to my attention I believed myself to be peculiarly susceptible to colds, for I suffered from very severe and very frequent ones in both summer and winter; and naturally I entertained all the usual fearful thoughts about catching them.
Nature
awakens with a song;Silence and sleep to the night belong;Melody heralds the birth of day,Carol and symphony, lilting lay,Bird oratorio, trilling clear,Summoned by call of the chanticleer;Dawn doth the curtain of night gently raise,And nature awakens to joy and praise.
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