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The following is from the Christian Register, the Unitarian organ of Boston. To the Editor of the Christian Register :— These grand words I quote from editorial, first page of Register, April 14, 1892: "There is no office which Jesus fulfilled, no power that he possessed, which may not be shared and fulfilled by those who have his spirit.
WE consider the works of Jesus marvelous, and so they are, but they are not more marvelous than his words. It never seemed to him necessary to adapt Truth to the preconceived views of those in error, to change the Law of God to correspond to the laws made by those who were under the law of sin and sense, and so fettered by its unjust bonds, that the "perfect law of God" was often accounted one of transgression, and obedience to it condemned one as a transgressor.
And when he is come he will convince the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. John xvi.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away: behold, all things are become new. 2 Cor.
For each generation since human thought first learned to formulate itself, and the Father of Philosophy, the "Master of them that know," shaped a mould for the vague, uncertain conceptions of men, hardly one has dared speak to the full its own conviction. Six thousand recorded years of struggle toward truth, six million it may be of unrecorded, and truth seeker and truth speaker alike have found themselves on the scaffold with the jeering' lips and mocking eyes of the faithful and unquestioning, their last tangible impression of the summary of truth for this side of the veil.
WHY is Science and Health , of which Rev. Mary B.
(The following letter was written the third in the course of a correspondence with a minister on the subject of Christian Science. ) MY dear friend:— Your letter of late date is at hand.
THAT the doctrine of Christian Science illustrates the living faith of the primitive Church of Christ, is an established fact. Overwhelming evidence is so easily attainable, that no one need long remain in doubt of this important fact, since the doctrine when put into practice makes Christianity consistent, and healing by it, successful when all material means fail.
Ed. Journal :— The following clipping from "The Brooklyn Daily Times" of Sept.
THE lesson on the parable of the Great Supper so helpfully brought out in the November Journal, has suggested something further upon the above words from Galatians. If they are to be compelled to come in to the Feast,— and it was so beautifully shown that the life is requisite to true Scientific results,— the question arises, are we as Christian Scientists living the Truth as revealed in Science and Health? "Are we casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ? 2 Cor.