What
are we, as Christian Scientists, doing about the so-called laws of finity and limitation which, like the laws of gravity, claim to keep our burdened feet chained to the earth?
It
is sometimes declared that evil is more prevalent and aggressive today than ever before, and yet the carnal mind in our present time is the same carnal mind of centuries ago.
Christian Scientists
recognize that true worship is allied with true effectiveness in the overcoming of sin, disease, and death, and that the basis of both is recognition of the allness of God, good, and the consequent nothingness of evil.
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If
I can walk the lonely roadAnd feel no fear;If discord leaves a heart from allResentment clear;If humbleness precedes success,And pride can rearNo Gorgon head of selfishness,Then Love is near.
This testimony is given to express, in a small degree, my gratitude for the healing and comfort I have received from the study and application of Christian Science over a period of twenty-two years.
In the fall of 1920, after I had led a life of dissipation for thirty-five years, the physician in Providence, Rhode Island, who had been treating me for three years, told me that because the heart and other organs had become inactive, I could not possibly live for more than three months unless I went to Florida, in which event I might live through the winter, but not longer.
At an early age I drifted away from the church to which my parents belonged, and did not attend any church steadily; but due to much sickness and an unhappy home condition I prayed earnestly for a way out of my difficulties.
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