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Some years ago I became an invalid. I was at the time president of the South Dakota W.
The one supreme Scriptural demand upon man is, that he shall love. Jesus, the Christ, the anointed of God, when asked, "Which is the great commandment in the law?" in making his reply, began with these words: "Thou shalt love;" then he immediately stated the second which he said was like unto the first, and it began: "Thou shalt love.
Several years ago I was requested by a young Indian to treat his sister for consumption in an advanced stage. Two weeks afterwards I again visited the town of Walhalla, at the foot of the Pembina Mountains, and in these mountains the Indians lived.
When asked what was the first and great commandment our Master replied, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength," and to this he added, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. " Our Master knew that if we obeyed the first and great commandment we would be better fitted to obey the second, that we would then only see and recognize the perfect man, and as we loved God and began to understand our true sonship, we would hasten to overcome all that stood in the way of our perfect realization of God's idea.
I Want to acknowledge the great good as well as pleasure derived from reading our publications. When the Sentinel of May 2 was brought in, I was suffering from weakness and nervousness.
In 1866, I had an experience which I will relate, which proved to me that the blessed Master is with us always, as he has promised. It was in February of the above year, my husband, our baby less than one year old, and myself, went from California to Nicaragua.
Three years ago I was as great a sufferer as lived; now I scarcely know what suffering is. I was never considered strong from a child.
By loyalty in students I mean this,—allegiance to God, subordination of the human to the divine, steadfast justice, and strict adherence to divine Truth and Love. Retrospection and Introspection, by Mary Baker G.
Several most important discoveries have just been made in Cairo bearing upon the history of the Christian Church in the first two centuries of the era. Among them is a manuscript from the fifth century which is a Coptic translation of three original gnostic writings of the second century.
Perhaps the first thing which the beginner in Christian Science has impressed upon him is the necessity of work. Not play-work; not spasmodic efforts, but, in the words of Mrs.