August 22, 1936
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In
the fourth chapter of the epistle to the Hebrews we read, "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
In
the design of Love all God's children have an abundance of every needful thing eternally.
Throughout
the centuries, countless human hearts have yearned to know God and love Him with more understanding.
In
Matthew's Gospel we read of how the multitudes, having discovered that the power to heal was manifested through Jesus of Nazareth, brought those who were afflicted "and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them.
In your issue of June 14 [1935] appeared a report of a minister's sermon which revealed a misapprehension of Christian Science.
Having read the reports in your paper of the four addresses on "The Truth and Error of Christian Science" by an Archdeacon, I shall be glad of space to correct some of the statements he has made concerning the teachings of Christian Science.
Be
not impatientThat the way seems dark,The path you tread so steep!Your God has set His markUpon each blade of grass,Each singing bird, each stone.
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A great spiritual thinker, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" that intelligence "is the primal and eternal quality of infinite Mind".
May the gentle presence of Divine Love so reward your lives that you shall so rise in faith and understanding as never to doubt or dread in a single conflict with evil.
I wish to express my sincere and deep appreciation of Christian Science and of what it is doing to help all mankind.
With a heart full of joy and thanksgiving for the multitude of blessings received through the study and application of Christian Science, I desire to tell of some of my healings.
Christian Science has been my only physician all my life, and I have had countless opportunities to prove its healing efficacy, both by my own efforts and with the help of a Christian Science practitioner.
My mother and I began to study Christian Science together, and I shall always be grateful to her for her example of perseverance in trying to understand and use this truth, and for the wise way in which she encouraged me to look to it for guidance.
Christian Science comes to some individuals in the joy of a holy experience, perchance snatching the sufferer from the very portal of death.
Like many others, I have at various times in my life asked to have God explained.
I wish to express my gratitude for the experience of overcoming a belief of pleasure in smoking, through the application of Christian Science.
I am grateful for the blessings that I have received through Christian Science, especially for comfort at the time when my father and my mother passed on, for as I glimpsed the true nature of God and man I realized that in God's universe there is no sorrow, separation, or death, but that all of God's children dwell together—joyous, perfect, and free, held in the glorious bonds of everlasting Life.
I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science.
I will
not fear, nor cease my upward climb,Because some pilgrim toiling on aheadHas slipped and fallen by the way again,And weeps, despondent of the road we tread.
