As
a rule anything that is worthwhile has reached fulfillment through effort based on absolute certainty of the rightness of the project and of the power of good to enforce itself in the affairs of men.
The
editorial page of The Christian Science Monitor frequently carries a small quotation from Ruskin, which endears itself not only to admirers of Ruskin's prose, but to all who love books and seek in the reading of them their full substance.
"If
the lives of Christian Scientists attest their fidelity to Truth, I predict that in the twentieth century every Christian church in our land, and a few in far-off lands, will approximate the understanding of Christian Science sufficiently to heal the sick in his name.
One
morning a student of Christian Science was awakened out of a sound and restful sleep by this angel message: The truth that already is, let it appear! The student had fallen asleep the night before with the joyous conviction that a distressing muscular condition in one of her limbs, which had persisted for several days, was actually without reality or existence because it had no creative cause and no supporting law.
At the time of the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, Christian Scientists look back over the year just passed with joy and gratitude for the progress of our movement and for the good that has unfolded to and through the branches of The Mother Church throughout the world.
A directory of all Churches of Christ, Scientist, and Christian Science Societies, including the hours of their services and information about their Reading Rooms, appears monthly in The Christian Science Journal.
Payments of per capita tax and contributions, also changes of address, should be sent to Roy Garrett Watson, Treasurer, 107 Falmouth Street, Boston 15, Massachusetts, U.
A librarian of a Christian Science Reading Room writes: "The progress made by this small Reading Room in the two years it has been open is gratifying to all who have been active in working for it.
At the beginning of my study of Christian Science in 1957 I was not conscious of any particular physical or mental problem, nor did I believe my way of living was wrong.
Although from the age of eight years I had attended a Christian Science Sunday School, I later went to church only on occasion, and I seldom bothered even to purchase the Christian Science Quarterly, containing the weekly Bible Lessons.
Christian Science has been my only physician for over twenty-five years, and I am increasingly grateful to have found a satisfying way of life to guide and govern me.
I became acquainted with Christian Science in 1942, at a most critical time of my life, when I was overwhelmed by discord in the home and by harassing illnesses.
As a subscriber, you can download any Sentinel issue published within the last 90 days (PDF, eBook, and audio). You can also take a look inside each issue as it originally appeared in print, starting with the very first issue from 1898.