August 20, 1938
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The
supplication in the Lord's Prayer, "Give us this day our daily bread," is given clearer and deeper meaning in its spiritual interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures".
How
grateful many a one has felt upon awakening from some unhappy or terrifying night dream to realize that it was only a dream, that no such illusive events actually happened, that he was still free and protected from whatever dangers the dream had threatened! The dream experience soon vanished from thought as he went about his daily duties, and he felt no hurt from the experience.
In
expressing the relationship which exists between God and man, the Scriptures make frequent use of the word "believe" and its derivatives.
The
study of Christian Science is an education, or let us say re-education, of the human thought.
Profound
and significant are the words on page 487 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
A Young
student of Christian Science went to her mother one day greatly disturbed because her hands and arms were covered with a rash.
I Cannot
always find the spring,The spring of inspiration;But when I climb a sunlit hill,The hill of revelation,I find it, bright and glistening.
In a recent issue Christian Science was mentioned, and the statement was made that according to Christian Science teaching, sickness was "an imagination devoid of all reality.
The recognition of healing through Christian Science, expressed by the article "Love Heals All Ills," in your recent issue, is appreciated.
Would
God that we had died while yet in Egypt,The people murmured when they weary grew.
An interesting study developed in a class when it was noticed that the pupils.
"And
all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land.
Throughout
her writings Mary Baker Eddy directs readers to the oneness and perfection of God and man, for she well knew that it is through understanding God that one can discern and demonstrate his God-given individuality.
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When sending a change of address, the following points should always be included in the request:
I should like to express my great gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me.
In Christian Science we are taught the allness of God, His ever-presence, and our freedom from illness and error.
Christian Science has brought so many blessings into my experience that I should like to express in some measure my gratitude to God for these blessings.
In meekness and sincerity I wish to acknowledge to the world my gratitude for the unspeakable gift of Love; to Christ Jesus, who revealed the glorious truth of man sanctified and God glorified; to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who through her purity and unselfed love has removed the mist which for hundreds of years has blinded the eyes of countless thousands to the light of Love, which, she teaches us, "inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way".
I came into Christian Science through an intense desire definitely to find God.
Obeying a sense of gratitude which bids me offer my testimony to the healing power of Christian Science, I submit the following.
Many years ago, as a member of the A.
I became interested in Christian Science by request.
My sincere gratitude for healings which I have experienced, and which I have seen others experience, through the perusal of the Christian Science Sentinel and The Christian Science Monitor, causes me to write this testimony.
Give
me, dear Lord, a heart so triedBy flames of purifying fire,That sin and self may be consumed,And in their stead a pure desireTo learn to love Thy chastening rodThat brings me ever nearer Thee;To grow more Christlike day by day,Thy tender love and goodness see.
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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.
