For my readers unacquainted with the teachings of Christian Science and the proven fact that it heals, following is an account of health restored from reading and pondering Mary Baker Eddy's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures". ("Miscellaneous Writings")
"I was sick six years, tried many physicians and remedies, but received no lasting benefit from any of them, and concluded I must remain sick the rest of my life. In this condition, I purchased the book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures", read it, was deeply interested, and noticed that my health began to improve; and the more I read the book, the better I became in health. This I can say truly: it did more for my health than all the physicians and remedies that I had ever tried."
Dr. S. G. Todd, Newburyport, Massachusetts
More next month on how Christian Science heals.
Friday, October 19, 2018
Friday, October 12, 2018
Christly Love -- Essential
We who follow Christ,
Who reverence the Name
Can't afford the shame
Of feeling unloving
Toward our fellowman.
I hope this traveler
Is learning when
Loving starts to slip,
It's more than a blip,
On the divine screen.
It's deadly serious
And needs to be
Corrected quickly.
Those times I haven't
Done this I regret.
And yet
There is always another day
When we can get ourselves
Safely back in the Way.
The worse thing about not loving
Is blatant disobedience to God,
Not that He ever stops loving us.
But our Father Who is all Love
Is not going to follow us
Out the door while we
Indulge in a little hate!
Do we want to lose the
Look of approval on His face?
As to Christly love being essential --
Our great Master puts it clearly:
"A new commanndment I give you,
That ye love one another,
As I have loved you.
That ye love one another."
Who reverence the Name
Can't afford the shame
Of feeling unloving
Toward our fellowman.
I hope this traveler
Is learning when
Loving starts to slip,
It's more than a blip,
On the divine screen.
It's deadly serious
And needs to be
Corrected quickly.
Those times I haven't
Done this I regret.
And yet
There is always another day
When we can get ourselves
Safely back in the Way.
The worse thing about not loving
Is blatant disobedience to God,
Not that He ever stops loving us.
But our Father Who is all Love
Is not going to follow us
Out the door while we
Indulge in a little hate!
Do we want to lose the
Look of approval on His face?
As to Christly love being essential --
Our great Master puts it clearly:
"A new commanndment I give you,
That ye love one another,
As I have loved you.
That ye love one another."
Saturday, October 6, 2018
Living on the Light
It has been said that poets
Live on the light of nature.
Well, those who write poems
To extol God's dear Son
Have to have that Light divine
(At least I do).
Having a small part in
Enlightening a world so dark,
Is no lark.
For me, it take ever greater
Staying close to God
Relying on the one Author
To hear what to write.
Relying on His inspiration --
Not my own.
I thank God
I can't do it alone.
Live on the light of nature.
Well, those who write poems
To extol God's dear Son
Have to have that Light divine
(At least I do).
Having a small part in
Enlightening a world so dark,
Is no lark.
For me, it take ever greater
Staying close to God
Relying on the one Author
To hear what to write.
Relying on His inspiration --
Not my own.
I thank God
I can't do it alone.
Monday, October 1, 2018
Our Oneness with God
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy is filled with uplifting, healing statements. Among them is this: "Jesus of Nazareth taught and demonstrated man's oneness with the Father, and for this we owe him endless homage."
Many students of Christian Science have found this truth of our oneness with God to be of immense help in their daily lives. A friend of ours from Australia shared with me something his Sunday School teacher told them, something that brought him through many challenges. Especially harrowing escapes when he was serving in the military in a jungle. The teacher said, "You and God are not two, but one. And that one is God." Our friend never forgot this, and not only this thought of being one with God was the difference in a life and death situation -- "a close run thing" he told us -- but he was completely and permanently healed from the malaria he had contracted. He and the Christian Science practitioner he turned to for metaphysical help proved what an understanding of man's inseparability from his Maker can do for a person, in health problems as well as in all else that one encounters in life.
Many students of Christian Science have found this truth of our oneness with God to be of immense help in their daily lives. A friend of ours from Australia shared with me something his Sunday School teacher told them, something that brought him through many challenges. Especially harrowing escapes when he was serving in the military in a jungle. The teacher said, "You and God are not two, but one. And that one is God." Our friend never forgot this, and not only this thought of being one with God was the difference in a life and death situation -- "a close run thing" he told us -- but he was completely and permanently healed from the malaria he had contracted. He and the Christian Science practitioner he turned to for metaphysical help proved what an understanding of man's inseparability from his Maker can do for a person, in health problems as well as in all else that one encounters in life.
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