January 25, 1936
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Men
seek after many gods and have formulated many creeds; but as a popular writer says, it is the art of being kind that meets the human need.
The
cry goes out from the hearts of a great multitude, "If only I could understand!" As one business man expressed it recently, While civilization has given us much, and we are living in a so-called advanced age, yet sometimes it would seem that the ancients knew more than we know.
The
term "intelligence," it is generally assumed, refers to the possession by an individual of certain mental qualities that enable him to accomplish things not otherwise possible.
Teachers
of the young have a very sacred trust—one not to be undertaken lightly.
A Beautiful
hymn adapted from a poem by James Montgomery, whose poems are loved by many of the Christian faith, contains this stanza:
In
that wonderful Bible story from the seventeenth chapter of I Kings, we read of the widow who, in a time of famine, was planning to prepare her last bit of food for herself and her son that they might "eat it, and die," as she said to Elijah, who then asked her to make him "a little cake first.
In
the account given in Acts of the healing of "a certain man lame from his mother's womb," students of Christian Science find inspiration and guidance in the pursuit of their daily mental work.
Your issue of May 25 contains an account of a meeting of the Chiswick Brotherhood and Sisterhood.
A short time ago a minister of the gospel radiocast a sermon in which he quoted from the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and then read a number of Bible passages in support of his contention that Christian Science was of the devil.
In your issue of March 23 a letter entitled "Attendance at Church" is published.
My
heart beats high with thankfulnessFor many a dear eventThe world counts just as little things;But, ah, how they have meantGreat store for one who learns to blessTheir meaning and their preciousness —
Paul
, in his epistle to the Corinthians, made the positive and inspiring declaration, "God is not the author of confusion, but of peace.
Article
This column has selected a few interesting messages from the incoming letters handled one morning, during the last days of the year 1935, in the executive offices of The Christian Science Board of Directors.
Article
Applications for admission to membership in The Mother Church may be sent to the Clerk at any time throughout the year.
I wish to express my great gratitude for the many blessings which I have experienced in a short time through Christian Science.
It is well to meditate upon our past blessings, and give thanks unto God, "who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.
With great gratitude I wish to bear witness to a healing which my eight-year-old daughter experienced.
It is my desire to express my gratitude for the blessings which have come to me through the study and ministrations of Christian Science.
When I first began the study of Christian Science, it was with the very ardent desire to help someone else, though my own need was equally pressing.
I first heard of Christian Science in 1910, after being discharged from the United States Marine Corps.
I was a very frail child owing to a spinal injury received at the age of three.
Christian Science was brought to me at a time when I was suffering from great physical and mental despondency, and since then, as the result of its study and application, my whole life has been changed and regenerated.
As a witness to the truth that "with God all things are possible" I testify to a healing which I had one winter.
