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In
His
Kingdom
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Mankind
needs brotherly love and unity in
all the activities of life,
political and religious,
industrial and domestic, and
these can only be realized
through the right undertanding of
God as the Father of us all and
through faith in the everpresent
power of His love. In His kingdom
all men are brothers, and in that
realm of reality there is no
warfare nor want, no sorrow, no
sickness, no sin. God never made
any of these things, and there is
no other creator. So, as we come
nearer to the truth, we are made
free from fear of what is unlike
God.
A.
G. Stevenson
Christian Science Sentinel
December 13, 1919
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Inspired
Thought
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.
. . When it is known . . . that
the metaphor of the mist
[Genesis 2:6] alludes to
material belief as having
mystified human thought and hid
from it the spiritual and true
creation, a truth most vital to
the salvation of mankind has been
revealed. If the Bible reveals
anything at all, it reveals this
fact that all inspired thought
leads away from matter. When
Enoch walked with God, his
material body disappeared. So did
Elijah's when he was translated.
And the new heaven and the new
earth of the apocalyptic vision
were not revealed to the inspired
thought of John until the old and
material had disappeared from
consciousness. The conclusion is
inevitable, that inspired thought
and material conceptions are
opposite states of consciousness.
Aaron
E. Brandt
Christian
Science Sentinel
February 11,
1922
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Putting
off the
Counterfeit
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With
its teaching that the real man
never fell, never strayed from
the harmony, peace, and purity of
his original estate, never was
corrupted by evil or sin, nor
ever identified with any of the
doleful experiences of the mortal
dream, Christian Science comes to
inspire the heart with
confidence, courage, and a true
sense of inherent and native
worthiness. As a flood of pure
water clears away refuse and
unsavory things, so this
revelation of Truth washes away
the belief that any relationship
ever existed between the real man
of God's creating and a sinning,
earthly mortal. It shows that the
mortal is a counterfeit of the
spiritual and perfect, to be put
off.
George
Silas Haddock
Christian
Science
Sentinel
March 25, 1922
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Fundamentals
of
Christian
Science
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In
Psalms we read: "Bless the Lord,
O my soul, and forget not all his
benefits: who forgiveth all thine
iniquities; who healeth all thy
diseases." And Jesus said, "The
Father that dwelleth in me, he
doeth the works." These simple
statements from the Bible are
fundamentals of primitive
Christianity, and they are
fundamentals of Christian
Science.
William
C. Brookes
Christian Science Sentinel
March 11, 1922
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Jesus'
Method
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Not
until Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer
and Founder of Christian Science,
published the textbook, "Science
and Health with Key to the
Scriptures," did the world have
any knowledge of the method by
which Jesus destroyed the many
beliefs of mortal
mind.
Robert
P. Walker
Christian Science Sentinel
November 8, 1919
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Above
and Distinct from the Illusion
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As
a bank note, fresh from the
Government Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, has no
correspondence to a spurious
imitation, so the true man,
comprehended and formed by Mind,
is always above and distinct from
the illusion of a finite, fleshly
form. As this fact is discerned,
and earnest efforts are made to
put off the untrue and unreal,
harmony is manifested in the
so-called physical realm, thus
exemplifying the practical nature
of Christian Science
teaching.
George
Silas Haddock
Christian
Science
Sentinel
March 25, 1922
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ARTICLES AND
OTHER ITEMS
A - F
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Above
and
Beyond
"Upon the troubled scene of
mortal existence, not very unlike
that of the battlefield, for on
every side we see the marks of
conflict, men falling by the
wayside, the ravages of sin,
disease, and death — upon
this troubled scene the dawn of
Christian Science arises..." B.
F. West, 1919
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The
Absolute and the
Relative
"It is of the utmost importance
in the study of the Bible and the
Christian Science textbook,
'Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures' by Mrs. Eddy,
that clear distinction be made
between those statements which
are absolute in their meaning,
which express the spiritual fact,
and those which are relative,
which express the human sense,
the material point of view."
Judge Septimus J. Hanna,
1911
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Absolutism,
An Example
of
"One phase of Mrs. Stetson's
error was to speak in the
absolute, and answer people's
questions by statements of
absolute Science which she could
not possibly demonstrate. This
reminds us how Mrs. Eddy once
rebuked another student by
saying, 'Come down. Your head is
way up there in the stars, while
the enemy is filling your body
with bullets.'" Bliss
Knapp
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The
Abundant
Life
"To any man who comes under the
sway of the Spirit there is
thrown open the door to endless
possibilities." Forrest E. Rohl,
1940
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According
to Our
Faith
"Because we gain quickly a
certain intellectual grasp of the
letter of Christian Science, we
are tempted to call this
spiritual understanding. Using
this letter, even though with
commendable zeal, we may find our
efforts failing to bring the
healing we so long to have
manifested." Ella W. Hoag,
1925
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Acknowledging
God
"The
acknowledgment of God as supreme
is most important because it is
always the very first and
simplest step by which we turn
from matter to Spirit, from error
to Truth, from chaos to
Principle." The Christian
Science Monitor,
1919
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Affirmation
and
Denial
"Everyone knows how unmistakably
real to his dream-sense of
identity both that identity and
the events of the dream are."
Ruth Ingraham, 1919
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Affirmations
of
Truth
"Christian Science teaches the
sick man the truth about God and
about himself as the son of God."
Willard J. Welch, 1919
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Agreement
and
Difference
"One earnest thinker, himself a
clergyman, has this to say:
'Among all the creeds of
Christendom the only one which
has the authority of Christ
himself is the Sermon on the
Mount. When one reads the Creed
which was given by Jesus, and the
Creeds which have been made by
Christians, he cannot fail to
detect an immense difference. . .
.'" Annie M. Knott,
1918
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The
Alert
Sentinel
"A soldier on guard at a
particular place has the definite
responsibility of challenging
with his 'Who goes there?' every
person who comes, — allowing
to pass those who have the right
of way, evidenced by their giving
the password, and checking or
resisting those who have no right
to pass, or giving the alarm to
the whole garrison in case of an
attack." William P. McKenzie,
1917
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Angel
Guidance
"We know that our beloved Leader,
Mrs. Eddy, early heard the voice
of the Lord, and that as years
went by she faithfully obeyed the
'spiritual intuitions,' going
ever forward in the understanding
of spiritual things until the
discovery of this new-old truth
was made." Edith M. Shank,
1925
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All
Things
New
"It is surely glorious, beyond
the possibility of words to tell,
that each one has the opportunity
and privilege of demonstrating
continually, with ever increasing
ability and power, this newness
of life in Christ, which shall
show forth the 'new man,' which
Paul tells us is 'renewed in
knowledge after the image of him
that created him.'" Ella W. Hoag,
1923
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Answers
to
Critics
"Christian Science must be
judged, not by what its critics
say against it, but by what it
really is and what it is
accomplishing."
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Apocalypse
(poem) "Oh, watch with me this
growing dawn / And see God's day
begin, — / The glory of
eternal 'now,' / The end of death
and sin!" Ruth Ingraham,
1917
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Apprehending
Spiritual
Ideas
"'How much more should we seek to
apprehend the spiritual ideas of
God, than to dwell on the objects
of sense! To discern the rhythm
of Spirit and to be holy, thought
must be purely spiritual.'" Ella
W. Hoag, 1928
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The
Ark
"In his second epistle St. Peter
tells us of the coming of this
second deluge, that of fire; but
with calm confidence he also
tells of the protection of those
who love and obey God, declaring
that 'the Lord is not slack
concerning his promise.'" Annie
M. Knott, 1917
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The
Ark of
God
". . . Evil, having no basis in
God, is unreal; and, therefore,
the belief of evil is
self-destructive. It is, then,
the self-destruction of evil that
is evidenced in the calamity
depicted in the story of Noah and
the ark." M. Pauline Siedoff,
1924
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Asking
Wisdom from
God
"The first step toward the
gaining of wisdom may be said to
be the recognition of one's lack
of it, followed by desire for
it." William P. McKenzie,
1919
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The
Atmosphere of
Spirit
"There were no fogs, or storms,
or even darkness in John's vision
of the holy city. In his
description of this heavenly
dwelling place he uses symbols
that express only purity,
transparency, reflection, and
light." The Christian Science
Monitor, 1919
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Attaining
Joy
". . . Do not be discouraged,
even though the path for the time
being is very steep, and the way
dark, and many errors rise up at
the beginning of your career to
be destroyed and wiped out of
consciousness, but get down to
the work joyously, for we all
know that just as soon as we
overcome one form of error,
another rises up to be destroyed,
and this will continue until
every phase of error is totally
wiped out of our consciousness."
Emma Harris Jamison,
1902
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Baptism
"Can Christians have 'two'
baptisms when Paul says, There is
one baptism? (Ephesians, 4: 5.)"
E. C, 1898
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"The
beauty of
holiness"
"Although the greater portion of
mankind has desired beauty, it
has been very generally held as
something that is personal and
material. It is therefore
scarcely strange that in
consequence these standards have
been varied and variable, and
every effort to gain beauty
permanently therefrom has
resulted in disappointment and
failure." Ella W. Hoag,
1924
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The
Beginner in Christian
Science
"Christian Science is the
reversal of all materially
educated thought, for its premise
is the infinitude of divine
Spirit, the one God, and its
conclusion, the spiritual nature
of all created things." Samuel
Greenwood, 1904
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Being
Honest with
God
"Because that which we call God
cannot be seen with the eye or
touched with the hand, and is in
no way materially recognizable,
mankind as a rule have come to
think of Him as altogether
without the range of earthly
experience. For this reason He
does not seem to them to be as
real and appreciable as their
fellow men with whom they
associate . . ." Samuel
Greenwood, 1912
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Benediction
Not
Malediction
"Through the enlightenment of
Christian Science the world is
gaining a revived understanding
of the exquisite graciousness and
heavenly kindness of 'our Lord
Jesus Christ.'" William P.
McKenzie, 1922
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"Be
ye
thankful"
"An elderly woman, whose room for
a season was under the eaves of
an old tumble down building, was
asked what she did the night
before in the storm, when it
rained in upon her bed. With
beaming face she replied, 'Why I
thought, What are a few drops
among so many?' She had learned
the meaning of the saying,
'Gratitude is the bright weather
of the heart.'" M. Ethel
Whitcomb, 1917
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The
Bible
"It would be difficult to say
which has wrought the greater
harm in this respect, the
opinions of those who have
contended for the literal
interpretation of Scripture which
pictures the Almighty as a
vengeful tyrant, or the
utterances of those who have
denied the authority and
correctness of the Bible at
almost every point." Annie M.
Knott, 1905
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The
Bible and
Healing
"As we read in the book of Acts
and in Paul's epistles we find
rest in the sweet naturalness of
his entire experience; and even
when we read of the trials and
tribulations which he encountered
along the way, we also find the
assurance that he counted these
things as nothing so that he
might 'win Christ, and be found
in him.'" Annie M. Knott,
1919
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Binding
up the
Broken-hearted
"'If we would open their prison
doors for the sick, we must first
learn to bind up the
broken-hearted.' Thus writes Mrs.
Eddy on page 366 of 'Science and
Health with Key to the
Scriptures.'" Ella W. Hoag,
1927
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Biography
-- True and
False
"As exemplars of true idealism,
of selflessness, of courage and
high emprise, the lives of
illustrious men and women may
teach many valuable lessons, for
throughout the ages the
spiritually illumined have been
God's true witnesses; . . ."
Albert F. Gilmore,
1927
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Blasphemy
"To know whether or not we are
transgressing Good, we must know
what Good is. It is evident that
we cannot rest the question of
what it is on mere speculation,
supposition or hypothesis." Judge
Septimus J. Hanna,
1894
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"Blessed
are they that
mourn."
"Once when a sense of sadness
knocked loudly at the door, there
came also the query, What could
Jesus have thought was 'blessed'
about mourning?" Elizabeth Earl
Jones, 1909
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The
Blood of
Christ
"Christian Scientists know that
they must be cleansed and
quickened by the blood of Christ,
spiritually understood and
applied." Annie M. Knott,
1905
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Calvary
"Few would deny that the
question, 'Was Calvary a defeat
or a victory?' is indeed a
fundamental one, and each
individual must answer it in the
light of his own experience
before he can determine how much
of a Christian he is." Annie M.
Knott, 1906
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Cause
and
Effect
"What impressed me in this
occurrence was the fact that the
accident was detected as a
condition in human thought before
it had a physical expression, and
that a period of time intervened
between the mental disturbance
and its physical manifestation."
Bliss Knapp, 1918
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Charity
"Peter looked deeper than the
mere surface of things; he saw
and destroyed the false mental
cause, and the man was instantly
freed from his physical infirmity
as a necessary consequence." M.
G. Kains, 1913
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"Children
of the
Resurrection"
"In the brief period between the
raising of Lazarus by Christ
Jesus and his own crucifixion, he
gave some of his most vital
teachings, the truth of which had
already been proved in his mighty
works." Annie M. Knott,
1911
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Christianity
and the
Commonwealth
"In all times thinkers have
agreed that the commonwealth is
the highest ideal for a nation,
although there have been widely
differing views in ancient and
modern times as to how this form
of government could be realized."
Annie M. Knott, 1919
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Christian
Ordinances
"While to many Christian people
symbols seem necessary to the
observance of Baptism and the
Eucharist, there comes a time
when outward rite not only fails
to meet the deepest human need,
but when it tends to obscure the
spiritual sense." Annie M. Knott,
1905
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Christian
Roots
"Our laws and our institutions
must necessarily be based upon
the teachings of the Redeemer of
Mankind. It is impossible that it
should be otherwise; and in this
sense and to this extent, our
civilization and our institutions
are emphatically Christian."
US Supreme Court,
1892
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Christian
Science
"Those who are students of
Christian Science are beginning,
in a very humble way as yet, it
is true, but still beginning, to
prove that true Christianity is
scientific, that it is governed
by unvarying laws, irrespective
of person, class, time, or
space." Katherine English,
1919
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Christian
Science
"Christian Science teaches that
by pure and holy living we are to
hasten the end of the world, not
the end of God's creation, but
the end of error, darkness, evil.
All that is opposed to God, all
that obscures the true concept of
His creation, will be consumed by
the 'fervent heat' of divine
Truth." Alfred Farlow,
1904
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Christian
Science and the
Bible
". . . I read to her some
portions of this most interesting
book, when she surprised me by
saying she could not see that
anything I had read conflicted
with the teachings of
Christianity." Eva A. Wertz,
1892
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Christian
Science is
Bringing
Heaven
to
Earth
"About
seven years ago Mr. Lent wrote a
book entitled 'Being Done Good,'
and included in it a chapter in
which he ridiculed Christian
Science. Since that time he, like
many others, has found that he
was mistaken in his estimate of
the value of this teaching, and
it is his intention, we are
informed, to insert in the
remainder of the present edition
of his book the following
explanation and
correction."
Edward B. Lent, 1910
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Christian
Science Not
Superstition
"To believe in God's immanent
power is one thing, and may be no
better than blind worship; to
prove one's faith through the
destruction of erroneous beliefs
is quite another, lifting
religion and worship out of the
realm of the uncertain and
mysterious into the light of
spiritual understanding, where
superstition plays no part."
Albert F. Gilmore,
1926
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Christian
Science: The Religion of the
Bible
" . . . We boldly proclaim that
there is very plain, very
specific, and very abundant
Scriptural authority for all that
Christian Science claims, and
especially for what it claims
with reference to the possibility
of healing sickness and disease
through the direct agency and
power of Almighty God." Judge
Septimus J. Hanna,
1907
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"Christ
in
you"
"'Christ in you'! What vistas of
spiritual possibilities are
opened up in these words, and
alas that these possibilities
should ever be denied by any one
who professed to be a follower of
the Master, he who excluded none
that accepted his teachings from
the far-reaching provision, 'The
works that I do shall he do also;
and greater works than these.'"
Annie M. Knott, 1915
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Christ
Jesus
Glorified
"The so-called liberal thought in
religion conceded to Jesus the
place of a great moral teacher,
but this was far from being his
own estimate of himself." Annie
M. Knott, 1913
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Christmas
"Let our sincere striving be to
make the year which is about to
dawn, a continuous Christmas, a
perpetual day of Christ living,
and thus be the better prepared
to do his work, making ourselves
receptive to His 'working with
us.'" Judge Septimus J. Hanna,
1894
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Cleansing
from Secret
Faults
"The teachings of Christ Jesus
invariably point to the necessity
of gaining freedom from bondage
to sin both in order to manifest
sound health and also to win
salvation." Albert F. Gilmore,
1925
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The
Clean
Windowpane
"There is no Christian Scientist
who does not long to become a
perfect 'transparency for Truth,'
who does not work and pray for
that complete purification of
sense and self which shall enable
him to reflect only the glories
of infinite Truth and Love." Ella
W. Hoag, 1920
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Clinging
to
Earth
"Paul declared that the things
seen through material sense, were
'temporal,' and that we should
turn away from them, throw off
the burden imposed by this false
sense, and find the things which
are 'eternal in the heavens.'"
Annie M. Knott, 1913
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The
Coming of
Christ
"In some of the German provinces,
many years ago, a legend was
cherished that each year, to some
home, the home best prepared for
him, the Christ-child would come
on Christmas eve and would sup
with the family and give to its
members the benediction of his
presence." S. F. Swantees,
1912
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Compassionate
Love
"'Love thy neighbor as thyself'
is Jesus' command, and if this is
not exercised in a higher degree
of compassion than a world of
sense can conceive of, how can we
hope or expect that the world can
regard Christian Science as a
higher order of Christianity?" J.
P. Filbert, 1891
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Confidence
"While I had been what one might
call a lukewarm student of
'Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures' up to my leaving
Canada, I was very much awakened
out of my dream and saw that I
had to put forth a great deal of
honest mental effort." Harold D.
Colter, 1919
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Confidence
"Christian Scientists can best
show their love to our Leader by
following in her footsteps
courageously, confidently,
patiently, obediently; joyously
pressing on, neither too fast nor
too slow, but guided by Wisdom,
keeping the commandments, for
this is the only proof of love
that abides." Martha Harris
Bogue, 1903
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Consciousness
"The attainment of this spiritual
consciousness requires constant
watchfulness, unceasing prayer,
and an earnest striving against
material selfhood, which asserts
itself in forms so subtle as to
subvert the honest purpose of
many a sincere and earnest
heart." Ada Beers Foster,
1900
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Consecration
and
Protection
"In
the Old Testament the
ninety-first psalm stands out
with great distinctness; and as
we read it, we almost wonder at
the marvelous understanding of
spiritual law disclosed in all
its
statements."
Annie M. Knott, 1918
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Conservatism
and
Progress
"Christ Jesus saw in prophetic
vision a time of great
tribulation coming like a snare
upon the whole earth, and
compared it to the days of Noah,
when all flesh was corrupt, but
the ark, with all inside it, was
borne upon the flood, till it
rested safely on the highest
mountains." Helen W. Bannon,
1917
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The
Constant Remembrance of
God
"One of our earliest lessons in
Christian Science is that the
woes of men are the result of
forgetting God. (Psalm 9:17.)"
Samuel Greenwood, 1904
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Contagion
"This evil, which the growing
understanding of Truth in the
world has been steadily forcing
to the surface, is today engaged
in a tremendous struggle for
existence. It throws into the
fight all its so-called
resources." The Christian
Science Monitor,
1918
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The
Contrite
Heart
"So long as mortals are content
with the things of the flesh,
they will not seek the things of
Spirit. Satisfied with matter and
its deceptive allurements, they
will not reach out for Spirit and
spiritual bliss. They must begin
to awaken to the
unsatisfactoriness of a
supposititious existence in
matter apart from God, Spirit,
before they will seek for
something higher and better."
Ella W. Hoag, 1925
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The
Crown of the
Year
"In his earlier experiences the
student of Christian Science is
largely grateful for relief from
suffering, and then he becomes
conscious that deeper gratitude
is due for the truth which
brought him freedom, that knowing
of the divine nature which Jesus
said 'is life eternal.'" Annie M.
Knott, 1913
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Daily
Bread
"It will not do for us to absorb
love merely; we must reflect it,
and thus we shall find that our
affections are no longer
famished, but fed. We shall also
find that when this our greatest
need is met, all the lesser needs
will one by one be supplied."
Annie M. Knott, 1915
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Daily
Overcoming
"The bugle-call to spiritual
advancement, from Genesis to
Revelation, is overcoming."
Norfleete Platt, 1927
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"Day
of
Judgment"
"This will indeed be that
'perfect day of understanding'
referred to at page 387, Science
and Health — no longer to be
feared, but welcomed in
accordance with Jesus' words:
'And when these things begin to
come to pass, then look up, and
lift up your heads; for your
redemption draweth nigh' (Luke,
21:28)." Lieutenant-Colonel
George V. Hamilton,
1900
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The
Day of the
Lord
"The day of the Lord is the day
of Life, — aye, 'life
eternal,' — the day in which
God is known." Sue Harper Mims,
1911
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The
Decalogue and Sermon on the
Mount
"The Mosaic Decalogue has lost
none of its significance by lapse
of time. It means as much today
as it ever meant." Judge Septimus
J. Hanna, 1899
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Demarcation
"The word demarcation as used in
Science and Health is of the
deepest significance, and the
idea which it embodies cannot be
too often pondered and applied in
the working out of our human
problems." Annie M. Knott,
1915
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Demonstrating
Love
"We all love to talk about Love.
We love to talk of how this Love
may be expressed in various
fashion. It is, however, of yet
more consequence so to live love
that the sick are instantaneously
healed thereby." Ella W. Hoag,
1926
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Demonstration
"Let us see if the Bible lays
stress on the necessity of
demonstration or proof. St. Paul
says, 'And my speech and my
preaching was not with enticing
words of man's wisdom, but in
demonstration of the spirit and
of power.'" Charles D. Woods,
1902
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Development
". . . We are told on page 233 of
our textbook, 'Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures' by
Mary Baker Eddy, that 'progress
is the law of God,' and the Bible
and our textbook constantly teach
us the possibility of spiritual
development." Charles V. Winn,
1922
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Differing
Viewpoints
"Before deciding that a
brother’s statement of
Science is faulty, would it not
be well always to seek from the
Bible and Science and Health a
clearer view of the question
involved, remembering that the
real issue is often obscured by
the poor medium of human
language." Annie M. Knott,
1915
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