Articles

As a clergyman my eyes were blinded to certain patent facts. I did not so intend, but I now know that I read into the Bible what was not there, and read out of it what was there.

Some time ago we published an interview with Dr. Frank W.

" SCIENCE and Health with Key to the Scriptures" has recently been placed in the "Fisk Free and Public Library" of New Orleans; also the Journal. The text-book is now in all the public libraries of that city.

A Christian Scientist in England has kindly sent us a newspaper clipping containing a letter which was read at one of the excursions of the British Medical Congress by Dr. Yeats, of Chepstow, written by Thomas Carlyle, and which was never made public until published in the Bristol Times.

It is not generally known, but it is a fact that there is a religious body in Pottsville, called the Christian Scientists. They have been meeting at the home of one of their number on West Norwegian Street, but now their numbers are so strong that they have leased the store-room in the Whitney building at the corner of Centre and Union Streets.

" WYCKLIFFE'S version brings before us another word, which. unhappily has suffered in the lapse of time.

Time creates no ravage,— works no change in the true heart, save to enlarge its borders. In every noble human heart there will be an "aching void," until its earthly limits are broadened into divine boundlessness, and all the world, high and low, rich and poor, sick and sinful enter therein; then is the full glory of manhood revealed.

Dear Journal: —A few weeks before Christmas it was suggested that an offering of love and gratitude be made to the dear Mother, from First Church of Christ, Scientist, Albany, N. Y.

Dear Journal: —Not long ago I was seated in a street car, and a young business man came in and sank down in the seat near me, saying to his companion: "So tired, so tired!" As these words broke in; upon my thought, much pre-occupied with the Science work, I involuntarily said to myself: What does that mean?—tired! In answer to that question I remembered how, not many years ago, I too dreamed dreams of fatigue and weakness which to my sense then were anything but dreams, and how the blessed light of Christian Science had dispelled so many of those shadows, and my thought was welling over with gratitude for its gentle," spiritual touch. Think of it! health a spiritual fact, never to be touched by weariness, weakness, or pain! Oh, to learn to drink deeply of that well-spring! This morning as the new year, 1897, dawns upon me, I feel as if I must express through the pages of the Journal our beloved Mother has given us, my gratitude for the light of Christian Science.

HAVING been reared in a Baptist Sunday School and a member of Orthodox Churches for nearly thirty-five years, conservatism entered largely into my religious life. But when what was termed Christian Science first came to my notice, about nine years ago, I desired to look into it.