In
these days, when wartime memories are still vivid and prospects for the future dark, it is refreshing to ponder what the understanding of God's presence and power has enabled spiritually-minded men to experience, in spite of these conditions.
The
textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, contains one chapter that is often overlooked by students of Christian Science.
An Item of Interest published in the Christian Science Sentinel of April 6, 1946, called attention to the fact that branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, which had been holding meetings preceding or following the Wednesday evening testimony meetings, or on Sunday, because of wartime restrictions, should now discontinue them whenever possible.
For several years prior to the establishment of The Christian Science Monitor Youth Forums, as announced on May 7, 1946, The Christian Science Board of Directors received much correspondence on the subject of social activities among young Christian Scientists.
The greatest of spiritual teachers, Christ Jesus, expressed his love for little children in these words: "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God".
"A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God.
Christian Science
was brought into my life many years ago when my mother was healed of stomach trouble and tonsillitis in one treatment by a sincere student of Christian Science, who was my schoolteacher at the time.
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