September 11, 1937
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IN
Boston, Massachusetts, there stands The Mother Church, "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, our prayer in stone," which, its Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, said, "will be the prophecy fulfilled, the monument upreared, of Christian Science".
WHEN
viewed in the light which Christian Science throws on the Scriptures, our Master's parable of the rich man and Lazarus, related in Luke's Gospel, is a valuable help to the pilgrim steadfastly pursuing his way from sense to Soul.
HITHERTO
hath the Lord helped us," is one of the well-known sayings from the Bible that remind us of God's protection.
IN
his parable of the good Samaritan the Master set before a waiting world an illuminating example of impartial and unselfed love, expressed by one who gave freely and expected nothing in return.
IN
Proverbs we read, "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
"WHEN
thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
I came
to Love, to beg a daily rate:A little meal, ah, just a little oil;And planned to give, from early morn till late,Full recompense, with uncomplaining toil.
From Letters, Substantially as Published
In your issue of May 23, under the heading "English Bishop says Pacifism is Anti-Christian," the reverend gentleman is reported to have said that pacifism is "as blasphemous as is Christian Science, which prays for bodily health without having recourse to the means God has given us for the cure of the body.
In his reply to "Inquirer" your correspondent states, "I am a believer in Jesus as the greatest prophet of mankind.
We
read of Samuel that the Lord was with him,Nor let the words he spake fall to the ground.
Services are now being conducted at regular stated intervals in the following state institutions: State Prison at Trenton, the State Prison Farm near Bordentown, and the State Prison Farm near Leesburg in Cape May County, State Reformatory at Rahway, State Reformatory at Annandale, and the State Hospital for the Insane at Greystone Park.
Our Sunday services are held in the chapel on the first and third Sundays of each month at 9.
A lecture on Christian Science was given at Elmira Reformatory in May.
Our
one aim as students of Christian Science is to obey the demonstrable admonition, "Be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and.
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Until further notice, the Literature Distribution Committee of The Mother Church will receive from the Field contributions of current or noncurrent periodicals and new or used books to send to branch churches and societies in Germany.
The following is to me an irrefutable proof of the exactness of the statement, "Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
From the time I was a little child I went to a Christian Science Sunday School, but not until I was older did I really begin to know what Christian Science is.
"To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings," read the opening words of the Preface to the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
I am giving this testimony to the glory of God in the hope that it will help some reader of these pages.
I did not know anything about Christian Science until my husband bought the book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
What a wonderful sense of peace and harmony one receives in the study and pursuit of Christian Science! Living its rules by holding oneself subservient to the laws of God, as is so plainly taught in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, one begins to see manifest the power of these laws.
When I took up the study of Christian Science my outlook on life was a very confused and fearful one; a great sorrow had come to me and life did not appear to be worth living.
My mother became interested in Christian Science when I was a child.
Far
up the mountainside there stands a tree,Sturdy and gnarled, and marking timber line.
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The Tenets of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, for the use of branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, are printed on sheets containing space for adding the application forms for membership in branch organizations, or extracts from their by-laws.
