The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-04-30
Intended TO take some of = 1t didn't

intended TO take some of = 1t didn't
do it.
My every night was with the
most awful mental pic = $. pictures
which we call dreams $ 1t it is pos
sible to conceive OF !: it had be-
come necessary to s me a sleep,
! ing potion in ord = o put me to
sleep because dreaded these so.
| When | went to bed that night |
| intended to take my sleeping potion,
! but didn't and the first thing
knew | was opening my eyes, and
! found it was broad daylight. found
J that | had slept the whole night
| through without one OF those dread.
ful pictures. and had wakened with -
| feeling Of refresnmont. Of strength
known before. The longest hour
ever spent were between my awaken
ing and the time set for my going
| back to that little room. continued
to go there for three months, and
then, upon his request to be permitted
to do SO, our family physician made
an examination of me- and said was
as perfect physical specimen as he
had ever examined. That was in 1850
and from that day to this, Christian
Science, as revealed to the world
through Mrs. Eddy, has met every
diseased condition that has presented
itself to me; las destroyed it and left
me free.
was not born in Missouri, but |
might as we'll have been. from my
nature, because | have always been
one of the kind that would not be-
lieve anything until | had absolute
proof that it was true. The Truth
has been very good to me all these
years, because, as o Christian S. ience
practitioner, | have been brought face
to face continually with the wonder
full healing work that has been brought
out by the use Of this Truth as Mrs.
Eddy has given it to us. | have seen
cancers, tumOrs, locomotor ataxia.
drunkenness and immortality destroy
ed, anu men and women made whole
morally and physically just by the
touch of Divine Love as understood
and demonstrated in Christian Science.
For this reason. and for the reason
that | am convinced, as the result of
my study, that Christian Science is
transcendentaliy and practically the
highest apprehension of Good the
human consciousness can conceive Of
I am a Christian Scientist today. and
thank God His way has again been
revealed to human consciousness. and
| that | have been here to receive it's
benefits
! have heard it said that Christian
Scientists do not use the Bible; that
all We use is Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures" written by
| Mrs. Eddy. No statement could Ee
more untrue, because Of the disclosure
Of the Spirit Of the World which max
eth alive, comes only the result of
the continuous study of the Bible
with the aid of the christian Science
| textbook Almost eyery denomna-
ton has its Eible helps, prepared for
the use OF the lay members in the
| church, by those presumed to have
the knowledge of what lessons the
| Scriptures have for mankind, in such
a manner that Bible study may be
| inteligently INDUCED in
Well, my friends. that is what the
Christian Science textbook is-it is
our Bible-help; it is the book that we
study our Bible with; it is the book
! that has rent the vail OF mystery
| from top to bottom, revealing the
| spiritual import of the Scriptures,
| opening to us the Holy Of Holes,
wherein it is revealed to us that God
| is no longer an unknown God; no
/ longer a God to be ignorantly wor-
| shipped, but a God to be loved a God
who is father to his children: God
who never turns from his children; a
! father more tender, more considerate,
more compassionate, more loving, than
human consciousness can ever begin
to grasp.
You have doubtless heard people
say, in speaking of Science and
/ Health with Key to the Scriptures, -
the textbook of Christian Science
written by Mrs. Eddy: II have read
that book from cover to cover and
nobody on earth can make any sense
out Of it. Hand a textbook of
algebra to child, Tell him to read it
through from cover to cover without
any previous instruction as how to
read it, and then, when ne has finish,
ed it, ask his opinion Of it. What will
he say? Naturally enough he will
say. II have read it from cover to GOV.