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Daily obligations, a large correspondence, school in session, all pressing their demands on my time, may apologize for one public expression to you all of my heartfelt thanks for your rare Christmas presents. From such a constellation of beautiful things, I can name only the central figures.
The day for which I have watched, and prayed, and waited long, has come with healing on its wings—the church, or dispensation of the Spirit . The Father's Age, in which Abraham was the representative father, has passed.
A writer in the current number of the Fortnightly Magazine says, that one of the most remarkable notes of the nineteenth century is its mysticism; that this is the age of new intellectual conception and developments. Perhaps one of the most interesting examples of this note of mysticism that certainly pervades modern society is that offered by the phenomena of the mind-cure.
The object of Christian Science is to advocate the righteous cause of Jesus Christ, to heal the sick and reform the sinner—to practicalize words with works in demonstration that his method is not a lost art. In thus "contending earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints," it recognizes but one God, Soul of the universe, whose name is Love, in whose image and likeness we are, and that this "Life of our spirit" is the Absolute of its opposite named matter.
( From Sermon preached Dec. 14th, by Rev.
From Discourse by A. T.
The ministry of Christ was to reform the sinner and heal the sick. If he only reformed the sinner, he could not say — "Thou art made whole;" He could only say, Thou art made half.
One may stand in a pulpit and preach Truth. He may have, as a vehicle for the communication of that Truth, the eloquence of Demosthenes; but unless the preacher lives by the doctrine he preaches, his hearers won't take a single living thought to heart.