The
praiseworthy efforts made almost everywhere in the world to spin the economic and social machine at its former speed seem not to have been very effective.
No
thinking person would attempt to drive an autombile forward while looking backward, for in so doing not only his own safety would be endangered but also that of others in close proximity.
In
the leading editorial of the first issue of The Christian Science Monitor its Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, enunciated the policy of the new publication in a brief statement.
At
the Wednesday testimony meetings and the annual Thanksgiving Day services in Christian Science churches those who have been healed by the understanding of God's law, as revealed by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, spontaneously express their gratitude.
Almost
anyone, if presented with a plot of land, tools, and seeds, would set to work at once digging the ground, planting the seeds, and then cultivating the plants as they grew, until he had coverted the plot into a beautiful garden.
Not
what we want, dear Lord, but what we needTo raise our thoughts above earth's mists and storms;All that we need to fortify our home,To make a shelter, whence Thy sheep to feed,For this we pray.
Mrs. Dorothy Hoskyn, former Committee on Publication for the South Island, New Zealand,
In reply to your correspondent "Veritas" I would say it is a recognized fact today that Mary Baker Eddy is the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and that her book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," has healed and is healing every known disease, redeeming the sinner, and binding up the broken-hearted.
On at least three occasions during the past year newspapermen have communicated with this office asking for information and pictures of our different institutions.
Last June a contributor to the Reconstruction and Furnishing Fund, one who has been close to all of the enterprises of the past five years, wrote The Christian Science Board of Directors:
That "man's extremity is God's opportunity" was proved to be true when my head and shoulder were badly injured as a result of a window shutter falling from the second story of a house.
Thirty-two years ago Christian Science was presented to me for the healing of my son of kidney trouble, but I was not ready to be obedient to the loving aid that was awaiting me.
May
the love of God, our Father,Enter into all our labors,Guide our motives, bless our actions,Penetrate our inmost thinkingWith its purity and sweetness;May its comfort and compassionBe with us all.
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