The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-12

ing it were more or less tinged with
recollections of solemn and sometimes
sad occasions. He never supposed
that anyone would read it voluntarily
unless under the impulsion of despair
or great sorrow. His fear and solicit
tude were thus quite naturally arous-
ed. He inquired of his wife if she had
heard any bad news, was she feeling
i'll, should he send for the doctor, to
all of whish she replied smilingly in
the negative and finally Informed him
that she had only become interested
in Christian Science. Perhaps the
story illustrates as we'll as possible the
transformed thought of thousands of
people in relation to the Bible. 1t
has become q new book to us and
the most interesting book in the world
through the light which Christian
Science throws upon it.
Science and Health is a commenta
ry upon the Bible. Other denomina
lions have commentaries, but no other
book in the world has ever revealed
the power of truth to heal the sick,
and enabled people to learn the Science
of the Scriptures by which this healing
is achieved. The numerous cases of
healing accomplished by the perusal
of this book are so authentic as to be
beyond question. Thousands of peo-
pie have testified to such healing, and
some of them have done so under
oath, in courts of law, and their testi-
mony has not been in the least shaken
by cross Some of these
cases involved the most terrible dis
ease known to mankind. No material
system has ever succeeded in healing
a cancer, but Christian Science has
healed hundreds of them, as we'll as
other so-called incurable diseases,
such as locomotor ataxia, tuberculosis,
epilepsy and others considered less
dangerous but equally incurable, such
as asthma, hay fever, st. VituS' dance.
Christian Scientists, as we'll as other
people, know such instances, and the
beneficiaries of Christian Science have
many of them testified to these Won
derful cures, and are generally willing
and glad to do SO again. 1t is not
pretended that there are no failures
as yet in Christian Science practice.
II would indeed be surprising IL, with
all the error that confronts 1t, our
newborn understanding should reach
the height of infallibility at once.
Christian Science, haWever, is an exact
science, and we expect that it's unfail-
ing power will be more and more
proven as we grow in grace. In the
meantime, it is, to say the least un-
becoming for advocates of material
systems to demand no failures of u.s.
while they view with complacency the
UNNECESSARILY greater proportion of
their own. The healing power in
Christian Science is not attained
through any new Bible, nor any
strange Interpretation of the old one,
but through the truth contained in
that old Bible, our Bible, your Bible,
and my Bible, and Christian SCENT
lists have none other. Jesus said,
Search the Scriptures" Christian
Scientists are jayfully obeying this in
junction, and through Christian
Science they are realizing in a great
measures the fulfilment of the prom
Uses contained therein.
Prevailing Systems ere Mysterious.
Mortals are in a state of supersti-
ton about God and man, about heaven
and earth, about sickness and health,
and life and death, and, indeed, about
every other conceivable condition or
thing. Furthermore, all prevailing
theories, whether religious or scientific.
havehave looked for cause in matter
for God in His opposite. Is not this
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