Those
who have had the privilege of teaching the youngest children in a Christian Science Sunday School often feel that they have had a most inspiring experience, one from which they have themselves learned a great deal.
Guy Haldane Dempster, Committee on Publication for Egypt, Africa,
In your issue of November 6, your reviewer opens his comments on a certain book with the following premise: "All systems of faith-healing, whether of the Christian Scientist, or the African witch-doctor, or only the chemist's bottles of colored water, have one thing in common.
That
which is ordinarily regarded as memory, the ability to remember or to recall, has to do, generally speaking, with the so-called finite or human mind and is not, therefore, a faculty of infinite divine Mind.
Quite frequently checks and money orders are received by the Publishing Society with nothing to indicate whether the remittance is to be applied to subscriptions, advertising, or Journal cards, to mention a few of our accounts.
A thought that sometime I too should like to express my gratitude for Christian Science became a real desire while I was reading the testimonies in a recent Sentinel.
I owe everything to Christian Science, for it has been my privilege to attend the Christian Science Sunday School from earliest childhood, and I am increasingly grateful each day for the complete reliance on Truth which this religion teaches.
Brought up in the Protestant faith and attending Bible school, I was quite familiar with the Bible, but I could never understand how God, loving His children, could send them sorrow and sickness.
Help
me, dear Lord, to see this cloak of matterFor what it is—an unreality—And help me, Lord, to don the snowy vestmentsOf Truth, as understanding sets me free.
with contributions from George E. Sokolsky, Carl C. Magee, J. Barton, J. W. Mountford, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., George Paish, N. Dan Braby, Thomas Hastwell, George B. Cliff
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with contributions from George E. Sokolsky, Carl C. Magee, J. Barton, J. W. Mountford, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., George Paish, N. Dan Braby, Thomas Hastwell, George B. Cliff