Articles

It is about three thousand years since the old Hebrew king, well versed in all the phases of mortal mind, after tasting of its pleasures, suffering its pains, and learning of its so-called wisdom, sat down and said, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity," and, "There is no new thing under the sun. " And in making this statement, Solomon voiced a great fact, for in deed and in truth there is nothing new.

When God said to Abram, "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee," we read that "Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him," and when the promise came to him that all the land of Canaan should be given to his descendants, he believed, and there he "builded an altar to the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord. " Following his history, we see that when he was prospered, and his nephew, Lot, was also prospered, a strife arose between their herdmen.

Much has been written during the latter half of the century now drawing to its end concerning the second advent of the Messiah. As early as 1845, certain close Bible students predicted that in 1866 "the end" would come.

To the Editor of The New York Times :— In The New York Times' Saturday Review of July 2, there appeared, under the heading, "Books to be Excluded from Free Libraries," a critical reference to Christian Science. Although a regular reader of your worthy paper, the reference escaped me, but my attention was drawn to it through reading in your issue of July 16, the article headed as above, signed "H.

There are still people who look upon Christian Scientists as a curious organization of cranks who are destined to disappear like many other short-lived fads. They cannot conceive that a woman should discover a great truth that enables people to live without expensive salaried ministers or church machinery; without patent medicines, cupping, or bleeding; and without advertising their religion altogether by word of mouth.

It has been a question with me for a long time, whether or not to publish my card in the Journal , as hundreds of Scientists are doing every month. A statement of the causes that have withheld me, and their final overcoming through demonstration may be the means of helping others similarly situated to discern what is right for them to do, so let me briefly give a page from my experience.

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all. —R.

The Supreme Court of Rhode Island has decided a most important question affecting Christian Science practice in two cases which recently went before that court on appeal: the cases of the State v . Mylod and Anthony.

Christian scientists are frequently charged with certain inconsistencies wholly apart from the teachings of this discovery of the nineteenth century. A million men and women who are the adherents or the friends of this faith in the United States, can bear witness that Christian Science does not profess to remove things that are real.

As we read the writings of John—whether it be the Gospel, or Epistles, or the Apocalyptic Vision, commonly called the Book of Revelation—we cannot fail to catch such a glimpse of the true man that we no longer wonder that this one of the chosen twelve should be spoken of as the one "whom Jesus loved," "the Apostle of Love," and by many such beautiful cognomens. We know from our own experience that love attracts love, and therefore we wonder not that the great, loving heart of Jesus should go out in such a flood of love to this disciple, the youngest of the little band of chosen followers; for in the bosom of that one it found a more responsive and sympathetic chord than in the bosoms of the others; and further, Jesus the enlightened, could read the character of the man before him and read it aright.