THERE
is a well-loved account of an incident taken from the early ministry of Jesus which has lived through the years because it shows that healing will result "when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.
IN
Christian Science the word "demonstration" has a spiritual signification and application which is becoming more and more generally recognized and better understood.
FACED
with much talk of "wars and rumours of wars," the right-minded person is concerned with what he can do as an individual to help prevent the recurrence of the scourge of war.
William Wallace Porter, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
In your issue of April 11, a clergyman stated that "the Holy Communion is celebrated in all branches of the Christian Church excepting the Christian Scientists and the Quakers, both of whom have rejected all idea of outward observance of anything sacramental.
Leslie Burn Andreae, Committee on Publication for Norfolk, England,
Your correspondent, under the heading "Divine Healing," asks whether I seek to "link up Christian Science with the work of divine healing as taught by the clergy of the Church of England and many ministers of the Nonconformist churches.
In your issue of March 12, 1935, you quoted a statement to the effect that Christian Science is "a child begotten by intuition out of ignorance, and the perennial product of the human mind.
Quite recently the Bishop of Liverpool, speaking at a convention of two thousand clergy and church workers of various denominations to consider the question of divine healing, welcomed the convention as one of the many signs that the churches were becoming alive to one side of their divine commission which they had long neglected.
Christ Jesus
proved the truth of his message by healing, and there is not the slightest doubt that he expected his followers of all time to do likewise.
Having, for over nine years, received many blessings through the study and application of Christian Science, I take this opportunity to acknowledge my gratitude.
Without lessening my appreciation of the great Bible characters of the Old Testament, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, and the prophets, I cannot help but be tremendously grateful for those of the New, particularly Jesus, the greatest human being that ever lived, though least understood generally by Jewish people, whose own he was.
With a joyful heart and out of deepest gratitude I should like to bear witness to the blessings which my family and I have experienced almost daily since we have been studying the teachings of Christian Science.
I was led to take up the study of Christian Science through witnessing the beautiful healing of a friend, and it is with great joy and gratitude that I testify to the help and healing its teachings have brought me.
Within
the room a holy peace is found— The promise of a hope to be fulfilled;And she who rests here, though by error bound, In patience waits until the lie is stilled.
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