November 9, 1935
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THE
ability to speak a helpful word in season to another is a God-bestowed blessing.
"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.
WHAT
kind of man is it that may gain immediate audience with a king?
In
Luke 13:34 is found the tender simile: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!"
IN
the third chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, we read that as Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, a beggar "above forty years old" and lame from birth, who asked alms from them, received instead an instantaneous healing, "and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
A GROUP
of people in the world have found a very precious treasure.
The
wilderness and lonesome moorOffer glad psalms of praise to Thee,And deserts drear rejoice, and pourAt Love's dear shrine, their symphony.
Your report of the opening of a church in Brighton "as a center for faith curing" attracts the attention of many religious people who have for a long time been in full agreement with your statement "that the nation needs fresh life infused into the tenets of Christianity.
A writer whose article, "Religious Truths," was printed in the November 16 issue of the Nonpareil, spoke correctly and kindly of Christian Science as having overcome every obstacle of opposition which had been cast in the way of its progress so that, as he willingly declared, "it came through victorious and is now beyond the power of anyone to crush or even harm it.
Your paper of December 24 contains an article about Christmas signed by "Brg.
In the "Talks on Health" column in your issue of December 9, a Family Doctor discusses "Nature the Healer," and instances some of the many different things on which people rely to bring about healing, implying that they would get well just the same without these reliances.
It
is probable that most of the treatments given by Christian Science practitioners are silent or inaudible treatments.
Article
It is generally known that one who becomes the clerk of a Christian Science organization, whether church, society, or Association of pupils, has definite responsibilities to keep accurate and adequate records.
The publication of eight new solo settings for Mrs.
Article
"The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit".
It is with deep and sincere gratitude that I give this testimony.
Testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals have many times helped me over what seemed a dark moment.
Out of deep gratitude I should like to give the following testimony.
Christian Science has been my only help for twelve years.
When Christian Science was presented to me over nineteen years ago I was physically and mentally ill.
My first introduction to Christian Science was during the war, when I was serving as a flying officer in the British Expeditionary Force in Belgium.
"Love supports the struggling heart until it ceases to sigh over the world and begins to unfold its wings for heaven".
It is impossible to express in words my gratitude to God, our Father-Mother; to Christ Jesus, our Way-shower; and to Mary Baker Eddy, our revered Leader, for what Christian Science has done for me and mine.
I was born under a decided physical handicap.
Through reading the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I was healed of the need of wearing glasses.
Oh,
not with striving came the demonstration,The answered prayer, the blessing I had sought;Not by the mind's intensive concentrationHeading the marshaled regiments of thought,Through the sheer force of my determination—Not by such efforts was the healing wrought.
[President Roosevelt, in an address to West Point Military Academy Graduates, as quoted in the Boston Evening Transcript, Massachusetts]
