One
morning two lads were sent into the garden to weed a strawberry patch.
To fast is not to grieve with downcast look;To fast is to reject the carnal mindWith all its hates, and fears, and empty pride,Deceptive, wrong desires that do enslave.
The Vanguard of November 8 contains "a verbatim report" of an address in the Protestant Forum on October 15.
The syndicated article entitled "Enemies of Society," reprinted in a recent issue of your paper, contains some erroneous statements about Christian Science which I desire to correct.
Give
me, O God, a clearer, fuller vision,That I may see through mists of false belief,And in Thy light know Spirit's omnipresence,Wherein man dwells secure from fear and grief.
Hongkong and Canton, China.
The
assurance which Christian Science gives of the great spiritual truth that God is governing all that is real is wonderful.
When
Christ Jesus' works are considered, it is quite natural that there should come to thought the many remarkable healings of "all manner of sickness and all manner of disease," the giving of sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf, the feeding of the multitudes and the overcoming of death for others and finally for himself.
One of the very important activities of the Christian Science movement is carried on by accredited teachers of Christian Science.
The Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy announce the publication on July 30 of the translation of "Retrospection and Introspection" into the German language.
Testimonies of healings brought about at authorized lectures on Christian Science will be published in The Christian Science Journal or the Christian Science Sentinel, when verified as are other testimonies appearing in the periodicals.
"Freely ye have received, freely give.
In our family healings through Christian Science have been many and varied, some of which were of sprains, heart trouble, smallpox, measles, broken bones, hemorrhoids, tuberculosis, impetigo, acute appendicitis, influenza, and painless childbirth.
It is with fond recollections and profound gratitude that I look back over the years to my first physical healing in Christian Science.
Almost nine years ago I took up the study of Christian Science.
I wish to express my gratitude to God, to Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, and to Mary Baker Eddy, who has given to us the real understanding of our Father-Mother God, and of ourselves as the Father's perfect ideas.
In deepest gratitude to God, infinite good, for the glorious revelation of Christian Science and its healing power, through our beloved Leader, I wish to testify to the innumerable blessings I have received through following its teachings.
A friend advised me to advertise in The Christian Science Monitor, and through this advertisement I was led to Christian Science.
I wish to express my gratitude for the healing and regenerating influence of Christian Science as applied to my daily problems.
Lord
, send Thy light! so sped the humble prayer,That suffering sense of darkness might be healed;The loving grace of God the need suppliedAs to the waiting thought came Truth, revealed.
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