In
a suit of law, the party against whom a verdict has been rendered by the jury may resort to what is called a motion for judgment non obstante veredicto.
These lines, learned as a child in a Sunday school, and always remembered, came to their full meaning only when the learner had found in Christian Science the way to think aright.
It
is not, as a rule, the mere personal effort which helps those with whom we come in contact, as much as the spontaneous reflection, the warmth and sweetness, of Love, manifested in small services.
At
dawn, the tired world not yet awake,I rose and sought the quiet water's edge;And on the placid surface of the lakeEach purple ridge, each cliff and rocky ledge,Each silent cedar, pine, and paling starReflected lay, and imaged forth, sereneAnd still—no breeze to ruffle or to marThe calm and beauty of the encircling scene.
George Channing, Committee on Publication for Northern California, in the
Christian Science is the religion of Christ Jesus and includes the practice by its adherents of the healing work which marked the earthly career of the Founder of Christianity, and which he promised his followers would likewise do in destroying sickness as well as sin.
Gordon William Flower, Committee on Publication for Gloucestershire, England,
Your correspondent quotes from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, "Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death.
It is a pleasure to report that nothing unfriendly to Christian Science has been noted in the local newspapers, although the three English dailies have been covered for the entire year.
Eighteen years ago, when in distress about a bodily condition, and afraid of an operation which seemed unavoidable, I was reminded by a friend that instead of rushing headlong into an operation it might be wiser to look into Christian Science.
In appreciation of the years during which I have received blessings through Christian Science, and in great gratitude for the many proofs I have had of the operation of God's law of good in times of sickness and distress, I send this testimony.
For twenty years Christian Science has brought me peace, comfort, and healing; increasingly so, when I have learned to see and understand that the time spent in the working out of problems is a growing time, which adds to my store of blessings.
In gratitude to God for the ways which He has used to bring humanity out of material mists into an understanding of Himself, and for the blessings which I have received from some understanding of Him, I wish to give this testimony.
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