Exploring in depth what Christian Science is and how it heals.
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Who are expected. Many are asking: "Can I vote if I attend the convention?" "Will I be allowed to listen to all the deliberations?" "I am a Methodist, will I be allowed to attend your proceedings?" In reply to such inquiries the following statements are necessary: First, All members of the National Association may vote on any question presented, or may address the Convention, subject only to usual parliamentary rules.
" Christian Science rests on proof not profession. It is not a theory, but a demonstrative system of healing, and it must be supported by proof of its power to heal.
About a year since, when not quite ten years of age, my little son went through the Metaphysical College with me, gaining the most beautiful conception of our teacher, of any one I ever have spoken with. He often says: "Mamma, people will understand who Mrs.
A little daughter who, with her mamma, completed the course at Mass. Metaphysical College, always explains the Science to her little friends.
It is the object of this Department to present Christian Science in the beauty and potency of truth and purity. We would educate the young "out of sense," with its beliefs of discordant error, "into Soul," where all is harmony and Love; so that, here on earth, they may both realize and manifest the Spirit of the Master's prayer "Thy Kingdom Come.
How significant this statement! And yet how few, although they have read many times, and heard as often, really see its Spiritual import. How beautifully it points to the thought that our "physical life" is not sustained by that which, to the materialist, is known as the essential to keep the purely human mechanism in running order; and leads us to inquire for something else which is indicated as a necessary element in the life of man.
In treating a case where unusual obstinacy put in an appearance, causing feelings of discouragement to be met in my own mind , while I was battling with them the following lines suddenly came to me: In the second coming, not as the lonely lamb, Is He driven to the slaughter; But He that sitteth upon the white horse, Goeth forth conquering, And to conquer. From the thought conveyed by them a "new day" dawned in my understanding.
A Few Words Based on Experience. "Thus Saith the Lord" to Me.
Medicine is from the Latin medeor, to cure; the art of healing, preventing, curing "abnormal beliefs of the flesh. " Theology has a sound basis but departs from it.
" Christian Science rests on proof not profession. It is not a theory, but a demonstrative system of healing, and it must be supported by proof of its power to heal.