From
the very earliest days of Christianity, the kingdom of God, or the city of God, has been a subject of hope or of aspiration to the religious-minded.
A witty
and perhaps somewhat cynical French writer is credited with having devised the definition that "gratitude is a lively appreciation of benefits yet to come.
Regarded
in the light of Christian Science, loving compassion is an active state of love, or love in action, and enfolds the object of one's compassion in a healing expression of love and blessing.
The
race has been called! All preliminary arrangements and preparations have been made! The contesting boats are vibrating and pulsating in eagerness to speed forward! The signal sounds.
Israel Pickens, Committee on Publication for the State of Alabama,
A distinguished bishop was recently quoted in your paper as warning young ministers against "running off after some tomfoolery like the Oxford movement, which is a mixture of spiritualism, Christian Science, and Buddhism.
William Wallace Porter, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
Regarding the unreality of evil, I quote from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science: "Expose and denounce the claims of evil and disease in all their forms, but realize no reality in them".
When
faith is at its ebb tide,When hope falls faint and sore,When sorrow walks beside me,Then I can pray the more;And I can let more goodnessMy every act express,Till faith and hope, reviving,Bring back my happiness.
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Beatrice Tidd Stark
with contributions from Cora L. Tidd
It is with a firm conviction of the power of God to heal mentally that I wish to acknowledge my experience of His care and protection, as worked out through a study of Christian Science.
Harry A. Solomon
with contributions from Harry Solomon
My introduction to Christian Science came one day when I found myself in a Christian Science Reading Room where the book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy was lent to me.
Seems
lone the path, and drear with shadows deep,Your progress hindered by a throng of fears,Obscured the vision in a blur of tears,So overwhelmed by sorrow that you weep?
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