A YEAR'S SICKNESS
I was taken sick the last of September, 1885, and was not off my bed for four weeks. I was under the treatment of a physician from May or June, 1886, until June 2, 1887, and I was in bed a great de...
GOETHE'S DYING PRAYER
"Light, more light," the poet cried, Ere he bowed his head and died; Light more light, on earth's dark way,Leading to immortal day. Long ago, in Holy Land, Lived there one by God's right...
CANCER REMOVED
Dear Mrs. Eddy: I am constrained by a love of Truth to add my testimony in behalf of Christian Science. D. B. LaRue, lately of Council Bluffs, Iowa, — a student of J. P. Filbert, who was your stude...
ENOCH
And Enoch lived sixty-and-five years, and begat Methuselah; and Enoch walked with God, after he begat Methuselah, three-hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were t...
Letters
OUR DUTYWe can no longer say people are not ready to receive the Truth, for there is a large class who are really hungering and thirsting for a higher and more practical standard of Christianity th...
LOYALTY NEEDED
It seems to me today, as never before, that with startling clearness the words are ringing, "Who is on the Lord's side?" What is being on the Lord's side? May it not mean, standing in and...
WORCESTER LECTURE
In the Worcester Spy we read the following notice:—Mrs. J. C. Woodbury spoke to a sympathetic audience, in the Art Students' Clubrooms, last evening, on Christian Science. Her notion of the system...
REPORT AND BELIEF
Lord, who hath believed our report? John xii. 38.The writer of the Fourth Gospel quotes from Isaiah the Prophet, to show that in Jesus' day, as in the elder era, Truth was not always received by th...
Agates
I give Thee my striving and straying, and take back a heaven of peace, I give Thee my efforts, unskilful and fruitless, — thrice blessed release: I take back Omnipotence, holy and tender and lovin...
BLIND JACK
The following interesting sketch is partly taken from the Leeds Mercury, England, and was written by ALFRED RIMMER:There are few more beautiful parts of England, or, indeed, we may say Europe, than...