A Traveler
once said that the inmates of a home for aged peasants spent their whole time from Monday morning onward in worrying and talking about the ordeal which they had to face every Saturday night—the weekly hot bath! Do we, too, sometimes find that we are wasting time and thought in dreading some experience which looms ahead of us?
One
of the most beautiful promises which Christian Science extends to those who accept its teachings is that contained in the following inspired words by Mary Baker Eddy.
At
the conclusion of a Christian Science midweek meeting several service people were expressing their gratitude for the meeting to the Christian Science Wartime Minister in the chaplain's office on a small Naval Air Station.
"The
objects of time and sense disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded.
Thus begins a familiar hymn: and in these lines is voiced a universal yearning of the human heart for tidings of the coming of day, tidings of better, happier times for the sons of men.
The
Commissioner of the United States Patent Office in 1844 then said, "The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.
The Christian Science periodicals have occasionally carried notices requesting branch churches, societies, and college organizations to prepare and send in historical statements relating to the inception and growth of their organizations.
To the best of the Committee's knowledge no article attacking Christian Science or its Leader, either directly or indirectly, has appeared in the newspapers of Kentucky during the past year.
Many times, when feeling despondent, I have turned to a copy of The Christian Science Journal or Sentinel and read the testimonies, which have never failed to help me and to bring to mind my own blessings which have resulted from the earnest study of Christian Science.
with contributions from Clement R. Attlee, J. Gordon Anderson, William T. Ellis, William Wallace Rose, O. G. Whitfield, Arthur J. Moore, Frederick K. Stamm
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with contributions from Clement R. Attlee, J. Gordon Anderson, William T. Ellis, William Wallace Rose, O. G. Whitfield, Arthur J. Moore, Frederick K. Stamm