For
ages the First Commandment has been glibly repeated by the tongue, yet mankind has had only a limited sense of the fullness of life and joy that comes from truly exercising this grand rule of life.
That
wondrous peace which Jesus heldAlways inviolateLifted him high above the stormsOf cruelty and hate—Forsaken by his followers,Abandoned to his fate.
Lyman S. Abbott, Committee on Publication for the State of Michigan,
We can quite agree with a certain clergyman in his editorial entitled "Overselling Religion," reprinted in the Traverse City Record-Eagle of February 14, when he states that "conversion belongs to every sphere of life—to art, education, to business, to romance, and not to religion alone.
William K. Primrose, Assistant to the District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
The teachings and methods of the small religious sect known as the "Peculiar People" should not be confused in any way with those of Christian Science; and the author of the article entitled "Peculiar People" in your issue of August 23 is mistaken when he writes that that sect "seems to have merged into the larger body known as Christian Scientists.
A prominent
American statesman has recently said in a widely read public speech, "The free spirit of men is the source of self-respect, of sturdiness, of moral and spiritual progress.
with contributions from William R. Rathvon, George Wendell Adams, Charles E. Heitman, William P. McKenzie, Nelvia E. Ritchie, The Christian Science Board of Directors
Arthur Dill Smith
with contributions from Phebe Barrett Smith
For many years I read books bearing on nearly every well-known religious teaching, searching for a religion that was definitely operative in human welfare, as a positive expression of Principle or law.
With a deep sense of gratitude for all Christian Science has done for me, and for the wonderful help, guidance, and protection which I have received during twenty years or more through the study and application of the teachings of the Bible and of Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, I wish to give this testimony.
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with contributions from William R. Rathvon, George Wendell Adams, Charles E. Heitman, William P. McKenzie, Nelvia E. Ritchie, The Christian Science Board of Directors