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Exploring in depth what Christian Science is and how it heals.

HEALING AMONG THE INDIANS

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.

LEADINGS OF FAITH UP TO SCIENCE

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.

CONSUMPTION HEALED

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.

THE TRUTH AN EVER-PRESENT HELP

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.

LOYALTY

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.

WORK

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.

A PRINCIPLE SOUGHT FOR AND REVEALED

For the first time since I have known Christian Science, there comes to me now a strong prompting to write my experience. It may not seem a wonderful one to others, but to me it is marvelous.

"THY GOD THY GLORY."

It would be difficult to find a more concise, and at the same time comprehensive, statement of the teachings of Christian Science, and the aspirations of Christian Scientists, than is found in these four concluding words of Isaiah, 60:19 . What does it mean that our God should be our Glory? Jesus tells us to glorify God, or to do all to the Glory of God, and the Bible is full of allusions to God's glory.

"JUDGE NOT ACCORDING TO THE APPEARANCE."

The objection is seriously made against Christian Science that it insists that the universe, including man, is not seen or understood by mortals as it really is. This objection is not only made by the materialist and the atheist, but by ministers of the Christian churches; and the protests of the latter are even more vehement than those of the former.