In these days of progressive freedom of thought and action we must be prepared to see many ancient customs broken and many cherished notions upset, but the use of a church edifice for a lecturer to attack the religion of a number of your fellow citizens, a purpose obviously not in accord with the teachings of Christ Jesus, inevitably recalls our Master's pointed question, "Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer?
The remarks on Christian Science contributed by a physician and appearing in a recent issue, exhibit such a spirit of tolerance, and such an evident desire to be fair, that they merit my sincere respect, even though I cannot agree with all his conclusions.
Under the caption, "Miracles and Medicine," is a quotation from a sermon which a minister refers to numerous places in the Bible which he claims limit healing to the apostolic age and record God as indorsing medicine, medical treatment, and physicians as the properly authorized channels for healing work.
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terse and crisp and noble and true are a vast number of utterances in the Bible! In Proverbs we read concerning "him that hath an evil eye" that "as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
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a testimony meeting one Wednesday evening, several individuals spoke of certain verses of Scripture or quotations from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
