In
medical parlance, the word "resistance" is used to indicate that physical quality which it is claimed enables one more or less successfully to combat fatigue, disease, and even death itself, and it is believed that this resistance in some degree can be built up or broken down according to one's observance of material laws of health.
In the third of a series of articles recently published in the Anglo-Brazilian Chronicle mention was made of a book in which the author claims to have received spirit messages from Mary Baker Eddy and attempts to modify her teaching in its relation to spiritualism.
An article, "Seen from the Top O' the World," in the January 16 issue of your paper contains the following statement: "During our late debauch we became so involved in Christian Science bookkeeping, and so enamored of it, that we forgot quite completely why we were keeping books.
I could
not understand the reason whyThe world was sad and full of bitterness;What meant the ceaseless rushing to and froOf mortals, catching at a fleeting glimpseOf that they thought spelled happiness complete,Though, having caught it, saw it swiftly dashedIn pieces 'neath their eyes.
"Every
good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning," writes James in the first chapter of his epistle.
with contributions from Charles R. Gaul, Katherine Boddie Swain, John C. Webb, Judson Peele, Elizabeth B. Crandall, Reba Chubbic Kramer, Thomas Alfred Taylor
I wish to express my gratitude for the many healings I have had since I became interested in Christian Science, one of which was of a disease supposedly caused by an accident which I had in early girlhood.
Dear
Father, may we stand through error's night,Rejoicing in Truth's ever present day;Like Jacob strive, and like him see the light,Steadfastly hold to angel-thoughts alway;Resist all evil; prove its nothingness;Destroy the arguments of mortal sense,And find security in time of stressBy firm reliance on omnipotence.
with contributions from William R. Rathvon, George Wendell Adams, Charles E. Heitman, William P. McKenzie, Nelvia E. Ritchie, Myrtle Holm Smith, H. Bruce Fletcher, Mina C. Pedersen, Benjamin H. Leighton, Marjorie Shuler, Duncan Sinclair, The Christian Science Board of Directors
Held in The Mother Church Extension, June 5, 1934, at 7.
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with contributions from Charles R. Gaul, Katherine Boddie Swain, John C. Webb, Judson Peele, Elizabeth B. Crandall, Reba Chubbic Kramer, Thomas Alfred Taylor
with contributions from William R. Rathvon, George Wendell Adams, Charles E. Heitman, William P. McKenzie, Nelvia E. Ritchie, Myrtle Holm Smith, H. Bruce Fletcher, Mina C. Pedersen, Benjamin H. Leighton, Marjorie Shuler, Duncan Sinclair, The Christian Science Board of Directors
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