A steady unfolding of the work is evidenced by the fact that the Christian Science Worker has come into touch with more men and boys in the last few months than in any other similar period of time since the starting of the work, and by the healings which have taken place either with his help or by the work of the men themselves.
Miss Florence B. Russell, Committee on Publication for Hampshire, England,
A doctor, in a recent issue of your paper, first gives his description of a Christian as one who measures up to the definition given in a certain dictionary as "a believer in the religion of Christ" and of "Christianity," as "the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ.
W. Clyde Price, Committee on Publication for the State of Utah,
There recently appeared in your columns an account of an address by an elder containing the following statement: "We grant that Christian Science is a new movement in the world's thought.
One
sunny morning, at the breakfast hour, a little golden canary was let out of his cage to fly around in freedom and enjoy the equally golden sunshine that flooded the room with warmth and light.
To
work with God requires obedience to divine Principle; and obedience to divine Principle can be rendered only when our relationship to God is understood.
In
the search for permanent and changeless freedom from the materiality that unenlightened human consciousness would have us acknowledge as reality, we must endeavor to rise to a realization of the truth of being that there is no selfhood apart from God.
Into
the lives of each one of us come experiences that test our very fiber—experiences that seem like the wrestling of Jacob, that will not let us go till we have received their blessing.
In
the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew we are told that the people were astonished at Jesus' doctrine, "for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.