A Common
yearning inherent in mankind is the desire for a resting place, an abode wherein care may be dropped, burdens cast aside in joyous peace and assurance with our dear ones.
The thoughts of earnest men everywhere are turning towards the magnitude and the significance of the tasks that lie ahead in rebuilding a stricken world.
Applications for membership in The Mother Church are acted upon by The Christian Science Board of Directors, twice each year, as provided for by the Manual of The Mother Church, Article XIII, Section 2.
Contributors to the Christian Science wartime activities will be interested to read the following letter, dated November 25, 1942, written to The Christian Science Wartime Committee of The Mother Church in the United Kingdom, in appreciation of war relief extended by that Committee:
The publishing of "Thought Gems" as prepared in the office of the Manager of Committees on Publication and mimeographed here for Iowa newspapers has continued in nearly seventy publications.
In 1916 I lost a Civil Service appointment on the evidence of three doctors, each of whom certified that I was suffering from a kidney disease alleged to be incurable.
Daily I am grateful for the many wonderful healings experienced in our home through the application of Christian Science, and I further wish to state that I have witnessed all the healings referred to in my wife's testimony.
When yet a very young student of Christian Science, I testified through the periodicals to the blessings received in Christian Science, expressing gratitude for the healing of a member of my family of a so-called incurable disease as well as my own healing of acute spells of nervous indigestion, chronic stomach trouble, and a multitude of complaints.
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