with contributions from Horace Bushnell, H. V. Hilprecht, Channing, C. A. Barbour, Longfellow
To-day the power of a Church in any community will be closely proportioned to its manifestation of brotherhood within the circle of its own membership.
with contributions from Max Jagerhuber, Emelia Mueller, Baroness Olga von Beschwitz, Frances Thurber Seal, Epictetus
The
editor has received many letters of thankfulness and rejoicing for the appearing of our German publication, and he gives the Field opportunity to read some of them.
New
and deeper meanings of the words and works of Jesus, as given in the four Gospels, are constantly being unfolded as is the opening flower on my study table.
The value of Christianity lies in its bringing the message of truth, and telling the things that are,—and beyond this, in its having the power to conform us to things as they are, and bring us to our true home in God.
All that we know of any material thing, whether a human body or a rock or a tree, is its attributed qualities; that is to say, what we suppose it to be in accordance with the qualities which we attribute to it.
To those who have only a theoretical rather than a practical knowledge of Christian Science and its efficacy, it is humanly natural that a dependence upon it and the exclusion of medicine should seem a neglect rather than a help; but the Christian Scientist who has had experience, first with medicine and lastly with this Science, has proved convincingly to himself that in his dependence upon God he has chosen the better part.
There has never been an argument or a law against Christian Science healing that could not have been applied with equal logic against the healing done by Peter and John and Paul.
The disciples and apostles were for the most part men of little education, as the world esteems education, although from the standpoint of Christianity they were more highly educated than any men of their time, because they were instructed by the great Teacher himself, and were students of the Master metaphysician.
