One
of the most common tendencies of mortals is to rest thought upon some past event in human experience or to anticipate some future happening, to look either forward or backward in the realm of time—backward, upon events unhappy as well as pleasurable, disastrous as well as successful, even finding a kind of morbid satisfaction in reviewing that which was evil and untoward in one's experience; forward, in anticipation of good or evil, of pleasure or pain, of joys to be shared and evils to be encountered.
In
her admonition addressed to "beloved Christian Scientists," Mary Baker Eddy, our revered Leader, lovingly tells them to keep their "minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them".
A Student
of Christian Science was reminded of how Jesus frequently withdrew from the multitude to the solitude of the desert or mountains to commune with God.
Students
of Christian Science turn naturally to the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, to find the scientifically true way of meeting all human situations.
Many a person, sick and discoraged, attending a Christian Science service for the first time, has felt in it something of this heavenly atmosphere, and has been drawn so close to divine Love, peace, and harmony that discouragement, fear, and doubt have vanished.
The
other day a little girl was walking home from school, when another little girl rushed up to her exclaiming with interest and excitement, "Oh, Janet, when did you get back from South America?
Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
Your issue of August 17 contains a short article on "The Power of Suggestion," in which it is stated that "the influence of mind over matter is the backbone of the faith of Christian Science.
Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Pennsylvania,
The Record of February 24 quotes a member of the faculty of Moravian College for Women, at Bethlehem, as saying that modern "pow-wow" doctors "simply use the power of suggestion just as do practitioners of Christian Science.
When the Items of Interest were instituted, the following statement appeared at the head of this column: "The Christian Science Board of Directors has authorized the publication of this column of brief items relating to our Cause.
Juanita R. Jordan
with contributions from Donald S. Jordan
Early in my experience in Christian Science, in fact before I knew about the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, I was healed of the necessity for wearing glasses which had been worn for twenty years.
Fritz Bauer
with contributions from Johanna Duss, Frida Bührer
When I first began to attend the Christian Science church, I often wondered whether Christian Scientists did not make too much mention of their Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.
At a time when little hope was offered for my recovery from a condition caused by childbirth, and when no hope was given for the child, I was lovingly offered Christian Science by a dear friend.
"Inspiring
discontent,"*That will not let us restSupinely self-deceivedIn this false world of shades,But urges us to riseOn wings of holiness,Where freed thought sings and bathesIn chastity and light!
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