To
be imbued with the high and holy purpose to serve God and humanity sincerely and selflessly, and to cleave to that exalted purpose through "evil report and good report," is an aim worthy of the fullest devotion.
In
I Corinthians we read, "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, immoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Lt.-Col. Robert E. Key, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
A General, speaking last Sunday to the members of the Kennington and North Lambeth Post-War Brotherhood, alluded to Christian Scientists and their attitude towards pain.
Dr. Frank F. Bunker, Committee on Publication for the District of Columbia,
When men begin to find out that their own wisdom and competency are not infallible; when the house of cards which they may have laboriously erected falls at their feet; when they stand apparently impotent at the crossroads of decision in some seeming crisis, then instinctively they reach out for help to the great spiritual leaders of the ages who have demonstrated that they "drank of unseen wells and tasted of bread not of this world.
Percival Vincett Parsons, Committee on Publication for Cape Province, South Africa,
One of your readers has drawn my attention to an article in a recent issue wherein your contributor has described the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, as "senseless prose-doggerel.
Newspaper editors, many of whom live in counties where we have no branches of The Mother Church, are renewing their subscriptions to The Christian Science Monitor on the exchange-for-advertising plan.
When
faith is defined as "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen," in the epistle to the Hebrews, the writer is referring to that which the human mind objectively accepts but with which, as yet, it for the most part but faintly and intermittently identifies itself.
When a young man, attending college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I often went to The Mother Church for morning services, and it was during this time that I purchased a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
Oh
, sing for joy, blest child of Love's anointing!Rejoice, fear not, cast all thy cares aside!Thy God hath called thee, all thy way appointing—The light of Truth shall be thine angel guide.
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