July 18, 1936
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In
the most sublime of all holy petitions, known as the Lord's Prayer, God is asked to "forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Many
are interested in collections of various kinds because they stimulate thought along specific lines.
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.
Familiar
to all Bible lovers is the parable of Jesus concerning the master who gave each of his three servants a gift of talents, or money.
That
wondrous peace which Jesus heldAlways inviolateLifted him high above the stormsOf cruelty and hate—Forsaken by his followers,Abandoned to his fate.
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.
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.
In an article in the September 12 issue of your paper, a clergyman makes reference to Christian Science and denounces it as a heresy.
In your issue of October 26 there appeared an article, "Miracles that Baffle Medical Science," by a South African doctor.
The secular press continues on the whole very friendly towards Christian Science.
Jesus,
it may be said, thought always from the standpoint of man's relation to God, and from this standpoint he taught and healed.
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.
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Applications for admission to membership in The Mother Church may be sent to the Clerk at any time throughout the year.
It is now practically twenty-three years since I first became interested in the study and practice of Christian Science.
I wish to express my profound gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me.
No doubt Christian Science comes to each one in the way to best meet the individual need, although the need may not be clear at the time.
Christian Science has been of such benefit to me that I should like to express some of the gratitude I feel for its activities.
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.
I should like to express my gratitude for a wonderful healing I had four years ago.
No one has more to thank God for than I have, for what has been done for me in Christian Science.
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.
Address by Stephen Curtis, In Charge of Correspondence With Monitor Advertising Information Committees
