In
the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel according to Luke is recorded Christ Jesus' parable of a woman who had ten pieces of silver but had lost one of them.
Help
me, dear Lord, to speak the kindly word,And leave the harsh retort unsaid;Help me, when error argues loveless deeds,To do the loving thing instead.
George Channing, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
Please let me mention my satisfaction in finding in the article entitled "Theo-therapy," published in the August 8 issue of the Pacific Edition of the Christian Advocate, a reaching out for recognition in a degree of the power of Christianity to heal physical ills.
Stanley M. Sydenham, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,
In your last issue, under the heading "Imagination," there appears a statement which may give to your readers an impression that Christian Science encourages its adherents "who are really ill to act as though they were not.
Christian Scientists
are grateful for the By-Laws that constitute the Manual of The Mother Church, but for none of them are they more grateful than for the one which its author, Mary Baker Eddy, has designated "A Rule for Motives and Acts".
From childhood up to my thirty-eighth year I suffered constantly from excruciating sick headaches, and was often compelled to leave my place of business early in the day to go home and to bed.
From 1912 on I suffered very severely from neuralgia in my whole body, especially in my head, wrists, ankles, and arms, and very distressingly in my stomach.
I should like to relate how purity of thought, free from all fear and false suggestion, as Christian Science teaches us, will enable us to see—to understand—God, and bring about harmonious conditions in human experience.
I have been healed of bronchitis in a severe form, neuralgia, toothache, and constipation by studying Science and Health with the help of friends and practitioners.
For over eighteen years Christian Science has been my only help in solving every problem, whether it was a physical claim, a financial worry, or a mental disturbance.
To
understand, each day, a little moreOf God's dear love,To feel His sacred presence ever near,All fear remove,To know I am His well-beloved child,And that in peace and safety I abideBeneath the shelter of His gracious wing,The while my footsteps He doth gently guideTo heights above;