"At the annual meeting of our association a collection was taken,—the amount inclosed herewith,—to be applied to the fund of The Christian Science Benevolent Association, as an expression of love and gratitude for the consecrated work of our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.
A lecture recently delivered in San Diego brought out the fact that Christian Science teaches that the basic truths of Christianity, such as the omnipotence, goodness, love, and help of God, are available to man through prayer to meet the untoward circumstances and vicissitudes of human existence, including sickness.
The statement which appeared in a recent issue to the effect that Christian Science is close kin to theosophy and that much of the latter was copied from Mrs.
To the human sense, burdened as it is with the beliefs of the flesh, it seems impossible to accept seriously the beloved disciple's declaration that "now are we the sons of God.
Pure
prophecy is an absolute statement of the law of God, the result of thought reaching out to and becoming inspired with the vision of perfection in communion with God.
In
the forty-second chapter of Isaiah we find some of the clearest and strongest statements of the qualities, characteristics, and work of the Christ that are to be found among the many beautiful prophetic passages of this book; and since studying Christian Science this chapter has become to the writer one of the most loved and most helpful portions of the Scriptures.
It
is by no means an uncommon experience with Christian Scientists to feel that although they are pursuing the study of Christian Science they are seemingly becoming more and more full of faults and less and less agreeable in disposition than they were before.
To
the beginner in Christian Science nothing is perhaps more disconcerting than its insistence upon the use of exact terms and upon the correct use of every term.
One
Christian Scientist asked another: "What shall I do about this business matter that drags so; shall I just keep on holding the right thought about it every day and be content with that?
Boston, the Mecca of so many Nova Scotians for two generations past, was in the field as soon as if it had been a city in its nearest sister state, and from the time when the first relief train was started down to the present hour has added gift to gift.