A STUDENT
of Christian Science was once asked by one whom he was visiting if our movement was growing rapidly in his locality, and he answered that he was sure it was because he himself was growing so rapidly! Evidently he realized that the Christian Science movement grows only as the individuals comprising it are growing spiritually, and that each individual member has his own privileged responsibility toward its collective accomplishments and advancement.
ON
the front cover, and again on the title page of the Christian Science Sentinel, appear the words of Jesus, "What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
offers immediate and permanent deliverance from the ills that afflict mankind—from social wrongs, from disease, from every human defect.
For
Aaron holy garments did they make,For glory and for beauty, long agoThat, thus enrobed, in deep humilityHe might approach the inmost sanctuary,The secret place beyond the wreathed veil,Within the temple's close-encircling courts—High priest before the altar of the Lord.
C. Shelton Agar, Committee on Publication for Natal, South Africa,
I must once more request space in your newspaper to correct a letter published in one of your issues, in order to show the reasonableness of Christian Science and its agreement with the Scriptures.
Mrs. Dorothy Hoskyn, former Committee on publication for the South Island, New Zealand,
A cablegram in your issue of today reports that the Bishop of Gloucester, when addressing doctors and nurses at Bristol Cathedral, said: "Christian Science is a religious as well as a medical heresy.
Excerpts from the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly have been published continuously throughout the year in the English section of the two oldest daily morning newspapers, as well as in the only newspaper in English published in the capital.
Readers
of the ordinary newspapers of the day might easily believe that human existence is precarious and even perilous, so laden are their pages with accounts of evil—cupidity and crime, poverty and pain, disaster, disease, and death.
The Centennial Grove of twelve trees commemorating the twelve women leaders of the last century in the United States of America was dedicated in Dallas, Texas, on March 13, by the Texas Historic Nut Tree Planting Association, which had inaugurated the project.
Announcement is made of three new English pamphlets containing articles reprinted from The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel.
It is with sincere gratitude to God for all the blessings and demonstrations which I have had that I wish to testify to the healing power of Christian Science.
Anne Juliet Lippman
with contributions from Edwin R. Wilson
It is with a heart full of gratitude for the wonderful good that Christian Science has brought to us in the past twenty-five years that I send this testimony.
Gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me, for the many blessings received, and the peace, freedom, and comfort it has brought into my life, prompts me to give this testimony.
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