"The inclosed check for three dollars is sent to The Christian Science Benevolent Association in grateful recognition of a recent demonstration over a claim of limitation, this being a small part of a loving, generous gift wholly unexpected, but which came only after demonstrating supply and stepping out ready to stand on God's promise, which Christian Science has shown me how to do.
Thousands of Christian Scientists will unhesitatingly say that all kinds of sickness and sin have been overcome by an understanding of the absolute fact that God, the only creator, never made them, and that therefore they can have no more reality or power than erroneous belief gives them.
It is just as impossible for our clerical critic to render invalid the teachings of Christian Science through his erroneous statements and arguments based upon popular Christianity, as it is for a mariner to keep his vessel in a direct course without a rudder.
A LARGER
sense of what rightly constitutes the true idea of relief has been gradually but surely unfolded to humanity through the activities of the Christian Science War Relief rooms, through which splendid work was accomplished all over the United States of America, France, and the United Kingdom.
THE
availability of the presence and power of God as understood through the teachings of Christian Science has been experienced many times by the writer, and when earnestly and honestly relied upon has never failed of proof.
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definitions of the verb "realize," which seem to express most clearly the scientific viewpoint are, "To comprehend completely," and, "To bring home to one's own experience.