When a man has heard repeatedly that people considered incurable have been healed by this renewed understanding of prayer, he is apt, if he is suffering himself, or if any one dear to him is suffering, to realize that though the skill of men is exhaustible the power of God is infinite.
The dedication of a church in Boston, built at an expense of about two million dollars, calls public attention to the flourishing fortunes of the Christian Scientists.
Those of us who do not accept the doctrine of Christian Science are possibly too prone to approach it in a spirit of levity, too often disposed to touch upon it with the tongue of facetiousness.
It is doubtful if, since the days of the primitive Christians, there has been such a wonderful demonstration of religious faith and enlightened zeal as that exhibited at Boston, Sunday, when forty thousand Christian Scientists from all parts of the world assembled to participate in the dedication of the Extension of The Mother Church of that denomination.
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following letter is from a well-known business man who has found Christian Science to be a help to him in his business, because through its teachings he has been freed from the worries, fears, quarrels, and physical ills which most business men look upon as the unpleasant, yet inevitable, accompaniments of a busy career.
Clear-eyed men of vision in all the churches note the fact that the secular press of the country does not rally to the support of ecclesiastics who are defending the ancient creeds and the standards of orthodoxy against those who, in their own churches, are breaking away from them.
