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Truth's Garment [Mrs. Eddy] did not attempt to patch up the old, worn-out garment of theology, but she discarded it for one that though ancient, was without rent, and as strong and beautiful as when first wrought by the hand of God. She planted in the fertile soil of the nineteenth century the same seed as was sown by the Galilean Prophet in the first century. She proposed a return to the apostolic standards and rules of conduct. Mayor A. J. Adams Christian Science Sentinel November 8, 1919                                                      A Beacon Light [Christian Science] is the same truth which Jesus demonstrated with such accuracy that he was able to heal all manner of diseases, cast out devils, or evils, and restore the dead to life. This healing truth, we are told by Gibbon, the historian, was practiced for nearly three hundred years after our Lord's ascension. Then followed a wave of gross materiality, which swept over the whole world, feeding those hungering for Truth with the empty husks of forms and ceremonies, and which for a time seemed to obscure this spiritual light; but the divine spark could never be wholly lost. Centuries later this spark was rekindled into a flame; nay, into a beacon light whose healing rays now reach the uttermost ends of the earth. This light was rediscovered by a noble woman, Mary Baker Eddy, whose pure, Christlike consciousness fitted her above all others to receive this great revelation of light. C. P. Macdonald Christian Science Sentinel March 18, 1922                                          ARTICLES AND OTHER ITEMS S - Z   - Sacraments "Those who attend the Christian Science services will note that the sacrament is observed without the material elements of bread and wine which are used in most of the other Christian churches. Its observance in Christian Science is explained by Mrs. Eddy on page 35 of Science and Health, where she says, 'Our Eucharist is spiritual communion with the one God.' On the same page she says, 'Our baptism is a purification from all error.'" Annie M. Knott, 1915 - Safety "A noteworthy incident, occurring a number of years ago and related in part at that time in the Christian Science Sentinel, testifies to the safety which even in extreme circumstances is provided by the application of Christian Science." Blanche Hersey Hogue, 1937 - Salvation and Overcoming "Encouraging people in the belief that they can go on in a sinful state expecting to be saved by the sacrificial death of Jesus, is not warranted by the Scriptures, nor by the critic's own experience." A. E. Brandt, 1919 - Scholastic Theology "Christ must take the place of creed. Christianity must supersede churchianity. The sleeping must be awakened. The dead must become alive." Judge Hanna, 1895 - The School of Trial "Touching upon this thought, our revered Leader writes, 'Through great tribulation we enter the kingdom. Trials are proofs of God's care' (Science and Health, p. 66). Many hearts today bear grateful witness to the truth of these statements." Stokes Anthony Bennett, 1909 - Scriptural Accounts of Wars ". . . While Christian Scientists adhere strictly to the idea of God's non-responsibility for war, they at the same time recognize the conditions of human relativity." Judge Hanna, 1898 - Scriptural Symbolism "The letter of symbolism may be very interesting, but it is profitable only as we lay hold upon the substance for which it stands, and the teaching of Christian Science is distinctive in this, that it always lays its emphasis upon the spiritual values of the spoken or written word, and it thus escapes that slough of contention into which literalists are forever falling." Helen Young, 1910 - The Second Coming "As we contemplate our beloved Leader, living in the 'silent sanctuary' of spiritual isolation, walking in the straight and narrow way that alone leads up the ascending heights of spiritual attainment, and bearing witness of the Christ by steadfastly pointing to Christ Jesus, the great Exemplar, we feel that we owe no apology to the world for the love, reverence, and gratitude for her heroism, fidelity, obedience, patience, and long-suffering." Sue Harper Mims, 1910 - The Second Coming (poem) "No more in guise of Nazarene/Beside the Kidron's turbid stream,/Or on the Gallilean shore/With fisher-students, as of yore;" 1893 - The Second Coming of Christ "We may well imagine his hearers' astonishment when he whom they had learned to know as 'The Prince of Peace' associated the coming of the Christ with scenes of turbulence and disaster of the most terrible description. What logical connection could there be between occurrences so diametrically opposite in their nature?" Frank H. Sprague, 1917 - The Second Coming of Christ "The year 1866 has been referred to as the year in which a number of English theologians looked for the end of the 'present dispensation;' but as that time drew near without any Millennial symptoms, Dr. John Cummings, the chief exponent thereof, was understood to have modified his original views considerably..." Ezra W. Reid, 1897 - The Second Coming of Truth "Why should not this revelation of Truth have come through a woman? Let us study the Revelation of St. John through the lens of the Christian Science textbook; we may thus gain new light on this profound subject." Evelyn Sylvester, 1899 - Seeking First the Kingdom "As God's spiritual reflection, man has boundless opportunities, infinite capabilities, ceaseless occupation. His capital is Mind's resources, unlimited and ever available." Louise Wheatley Cook Hovnanian, 1916 - Sense Testimony Rebuked "One day, while thinking of the wondrous work and scope of Christian Science, it came to me suddenly that, in order to demonstrate its teachings more fully in daily life, every claim made by the corporeal senses, in their effort to manifest and maintain the belief of either pleasure or pain in the body, must be quickly detected and denied." Hattie P. Williams, 1909 - Separation of Truth and Error "The most insidious form of evil — the highest attenuation of error concocted by mortal mind to oppose Christian Science, is that one taught in Chicago and recently illustrated in New York." Anonymous Editorial, 1889 - Service "Jesus perceived that in order to perform this mission of service to mankind every one must first prove his mastery over the arguments of material sense in his own consciousness..." The Christian Science Monitor, 1919 - Service "It is our privilege to be 'laborers together with God,' 'workers together with him,' to quote St. Paul, and we must be prepared to prove first to ourselves, then to all the world, our worthiness of this high honor." Annie M. Knott, 1915 - Significance of the Wilderness ". . . The very place where the sense of difficult environment, unhappiness, disease, or loneliness seems to be is really filled with the presence of God; . . ." Dorothy Mary Hutchings, 1928 - Signs of the Times "If you insist on locating heaven according to the teaching of Jesus, then heaven is where God is, but we must have heaven in the heart or we shall not find it anywhere . . ." - Signs of the Times ". . . The measure of your God consciousness is the measure of your reality, the measure of your freedom, the measure of your service to the world, the measure of your ability to be well, sound, sane, and efficient." - Signs of the Times "The church must give evidence of being something more than a temperance society, civic federation, or association for human elevation and betterment if it is to justify its claim that it is the representative of the teachings, ministration, life, and divine power of Christ Jesus." - "The simplicity that is in Christ" "When Paul saw the Christians of his day in danger of being turned aside from the clear and simple teaching he had given them, he warned them to beware, 'lest by any means, . . . your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ,' to a vain boastfulness which would glory in its own supposed grasp of spiritual things." Ella W. Hoag, 1922 - Sincerity "The word 'sincere' is such a common one, so frequently employed in correspondence and elsewhere in a purely formal way, that we are likely to lose sight of its deep significance." Willard M. Grimes, 1922 - The Single Eye "No divided purpose has ever been brought to perfect fulfillment. No aspiration can win its desired heights except the eye be kept single to its exalted demands." Ella W. Hoag, 1919 - Singleness of Vision "When Jesus was journeying for the last time to Jerusalem, he saw that evil was about to nail him to the cross, but he saw also the resurrection." Elizabeth Earl Jones, 1907 - Skepticism "If we take the character and experiences of Thomas as typifying a common phase of human belief, we may be able to see how material sense retards progress until the Christ-wisdom illuminates such thought so that it becomes transparent enough for the light of Truth to shine through." Annie M. Knott, 1906 - Soldiers and Devoutness "Students of Christian Science can never think of the men who are serving the country, whether in camp or on the battlefield, as other than the highest type of men, whose deepest needs and desires are moral and spiritual, in brief, as our brothers." Annie M. Knott, 1918 - Soldiers of Liberty "To accomplish his holy mission each soldier in the army of the Lord must be hourly faithful to his spiritual guard duty. Hundreds of times a day he must challenge such mental enemies as belief in material selfhood, fear of evil, love of ease." Ethel Whitcomb, 1918 - Some had Ears to Hear "An article was prepared on Christian Science by one of the leading ministers of this place, and it was read before the ministers of the Orthodox Churches who had met to hear it and to discuss Christian Science." James Hightower, 1901 - Sonship "The apostle says: 'Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son.' Shall we, then, let material sense keep from us the privileges, the joys, and the infinite outlook of sonship in divine Science?" Annie M. Knott, 1913 - Sons of God "An early step in the effort to gain some adequate grasp of the true significance of these momentous words should be to inquire who are 'we' whom John declared to be the sons of God. Surely not mortals, for mortals partake of qualities so unlike the divine that by no possibility could the handiwork of God be confused with objects so transitory." Albert F. Gilmore, 1927 - "Sound Doctrine" "The truth itself can never be perverted, but even sincere seekers may be turned aside by shallow and specious arguments, though these can never really mislead the diligent student of our Leader’s writings, which are strictly in accord with the teachings of the Bible." Annie M. Knott, 1916 - Spirit's Characterization "The true man, therefore, is always 'the expressed image' of 'infinite Mind,' manifesting the very 'character' of the 'most High.'" Irving C. Tomlinson, 1913 - Spirit's Plumbline "Now, it is all very well for us to congratulate ourselves on the possession of God's exact Science; it is all very well for us to talk much of the letter of this Science, declaring its statements with great gusto; it is all very well to say: In Science things are thus and so; but it is quite another matter to prove these statements to be the truth." Ella W. Hoag, 1923 - Spiritual Abundance "'The only will of God is good will, even the will that we should always have everything that we need, at all times, wherever we may be." Robert Stanley Ross, 1924 - Spiritual Ascendancy "'Here a little, and there a little,' characterizes the process whereby spiritual truth is laid hold of; and yet, as spiritual truth gains the ascendancy in thought, definite progress is made in the destruction of false belief." Albert F. Gilmore, 1927 - Spiritual Communion "All the material bread and wine on earth, if eaten and drank in the firm belief that it symbolized the body and blood of Christ, would not bring us one step nearer God, or make us in a single particular more Christlike." Joseph Armstrong, 1893 - Spiritual Discernment "At the present juncture the best human concepts of the spiritual idea that are abroad in the world must be protected against the ruthless assaults and clandestine plottings of modern Pharisaism, which invokes the blessing of Deity on a propaganda of hatred and hypocrisy carried on in defiance of the accepted canons of civilization." Frank H. Sprague, 1918 - Spiritual Equipment "The essential need for spiritual armor and weapons, also for unceasing watchfulness, is shown to be a constant requirement of humanity at all times, until the belief in a mind separate from God, good, and wholly unlike Truth and Love, is proved powerless." Annie M. Knott, 1917 - Spiritual Knowledge "It is the eager desire for knowledge which lifts men above the narrow limits of physical sense and points the way to purer pleasures; and the time has come when, through Christian Science, the understanding of God, divine Principle, is being recognized as the only way by which anything can be understood aright." Annie M. Knott, 1906 - Spiritual Man Incorporeal "If we could but realize always that the true sense of God and man alone can liberate us, and help us to free others from the oppressive bondage of belief in a material body with all its false pleasures and pains, we would never consent to the error of trying to link it to the spiritual idea." Annie M. Knott, 1913 - Spiritual Power ". . . In the nineteenth century comes Christian Science to reveal the Truth to those who are willing to see it, who are willing to accept it, who are willing to live it, who are willing to be made 'new creatures,' who are willing to become 'Sons of God,' who are willing to 'walk, not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.' John B. Hough, 1894 - The Spiritual Sanctuary "The advent of Christ Jesus gradually brought a changed concept of the sanctuary; for he said that the kingdom of heaven is within us, clearly setting forth the great spiritual fact that God is with all those who understandingly recognize His presence." Samuel Frederick Swantees, 1929 - Spiritual Supply "We once thought that supply referred mainly to material things, but our Leader has shown us that the true sense of substance is found in the understanding of Life, Truth, Love..." Lilian Galarneau, 1913 - Spiritual Uplift "What is spiritual uplift? It is the exalted sense resulting from gaining some measure of the Mind of Christ — the state of thought which comes from transforming consciousness, perhaps only slightly, from a material to a spiritual basis." Albert F. Gilmore, 1927 - Spiritual Warfare and Victory "In Revelation John speaks of the 'prayers of saints' in a way which emphasizes the great importance he ascribes to these prayers, and the glorious results he considers they have accomplished and will accomplish." John Ellis Sedman, 1920 - Springtime Thoughts "All of us, at some time, reach a place in our earthly experience where materiality utterly fails us, and we wander wearily 'as sheep which have no shepherd.' Finally, humility companions with us, and we turn to God." Mildred M. Palmer, 1924 - Steadfastness in Faith "In a testimony which recently appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel, the testifier stated that a serious claim of sickness had been worked upon by a faithful practitioner for two years without the slightest outward evidence of improvement. Then suddenly, as out of a clear sky, perfect healing was experienced." Albert F. Gilmore, 1927 - On Steadying the Ark "On page 84 of 'Retrospection and Introspection' Mrs. Eddy writes: 'The opinions of men cannot be substituted for God's revelation. In times past, arrogant pride, in attempting to steady the ark of Truth, obscured even the power and glory of the Scriptures, — to which Science and Health is the Key.'" Clara Miller Geiger, 1937 - "The stone which the builders rejected" "Christian Scientists have become quite familiar with the argument that healing by spiritual means is not a vital element of religion; indeed some people insist that it is wrong to attempt it, although it was practised by Christ Jesus and his apostles." Annie M. Knott, 1916 - Stronger than Armies "The seriousness of the mounting claims of materialism is forcing men to seek a spiritual means of preservation, which is found only in the Word of God." Buelah May Booth, 1943 - Study References (1st and 2nd Coming) "...The beast bowed before the Lamb: it was supposed to have fought the manhood of God, that Jesus represented; but it fell before the womanhood of God, that presented the highest ideal of Love." From the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's Writings - Substance "It does not require any very exhaustive study of the New Testament to recognize that throughout its pages the endeavor is persistently made to instruct mankind as to the true nature of substance." The Christian Science Monitor, 1919 - Success "Being the most scientific, it follows of course that Jesus was also the most successful man, and this is appreciated when his achievements are reviewed. He overcame the three great enemies of mankind; namely, sin, disease, and death, and all real success lies along the same lines." Lawrence Thompson, 1919 - Sunday School Notes and Comments "It goes without saying that Christian Science never could originate with a human being. God had to select His chosen vessel and reveal Christian Science to Mrs. Eddy just as He revealed His nature as the Almighty to Abraham." Bliss Knapp, 1939 - Sunday School Work Progressive "Our great need is to know the Bible better, love it more, and practise its teachings through the spiritual illumination gained from Science and Health." Annie M. Knott, 1916 - Supply "It seems almost strange that through all the ages men have looked upon senseless matter as the source of supply as well as the supply itself." Ella W. Hoag, 1924 - Supply "A student was once at the point of having her little all of material property swept away. The most of one night she spent in prayer over it. Sleep fled; while a strong desire to keep the property, and a great fear of losing it, struggled with the arguments of Spirit's allness." Edith L. Woodmansee, 1923 - Supply and Demand "We learn in Christian Science that man created in God's own image is never the victim of unjust economic laws, for he lives in obedience to God's spiritual law of abundant supply. God's creation depends upon Him for its maintenance, enlightenment, and joy, and all these He invariably supplies." Katherine English, 1936 - "The suppositional world" "Christian Science is freeing the race from its belief in and fear of evil by making plain the truth that evil is never actual but always suppositional." John Ellis Sedman, 1918 - "The Supremacy of Spirit" "To go on for a lifetime repeating the words 'supremacy of Spirit' while nine tenths of that lifetime was given up to proving the exact opposite, namely the supremacy of matter in our lives, was a poor way to embody living force and practical faith in the words we professed to believe." The Christian Science Monitor, 1919 - Symbols "Error would arrest our attention with symbols of evil, or by misinterpreting the types of spiritual ideas presented in nature and making them seem material; but Truth rebukes all falsity by revealing the real with its unvarying demand for perfection, which means health, harmony, and immortality." Annie M. Knott, 1913 - Sympathy in Christian Science "'What was the effect upon you, mentally and physically, when you used to rehearse to your friends the details of your sickness, your symptoms and sufferings?'" Louise Delisle Radzinski, 1903 - Taking the Side of Spirit "Many a mortal has reached the limit of his mortal endurance only to find divine Love waiting to show him how to take the side of Spirit and to begin to lose his weakness and his woes in the newly awakened spiritual sense of eternal strength and living joy." Nellie B. Mace, 1925 - Testimony Begotten of Divine Assurance "The world is flooded with teaching, practice, and literature which are fatal adulterations of the Truth, yet purporting to be genuine." Mary W. Munroe, 1887 - Testing Times "In the epistle to the Hebrews we are told many times of the tests imposed upon the humanity of Christ Jesus, each one higher than the last and more conclusive in its results for the whole race. It is no doubt difficult for us to recognize the element of joy in our testing times, but unless we do, the trial of our strength is apt to be prolonged and the final result may even seem uncertain." Annie M. Knott, 1916 - Thanksgiving "As Christian Scientists we see that the greatness of any people depends absolutely upon their recognition of Divine power and their obedience to Divine law." Annie M. Knott, 1907 - Thanksgiving "The true Thanksgiving then comes to those who can thank God for every opportunity to prove His presence and allness in spite of any and all the suppositional arguments which material sense may claim to present." Ella W. Hoag, 1919 - Theology "'Any one who takes the slightest interest in the history of the Christian church and the faith once delivered to the saints, may discover without much effort how the church has been corrupted and how the religion of Jesus has been misrepresented.'" Judge Hanna, 1898 - The Theology of Jesus "The theology of Jesus makes tremendous demands upon Christian Scientists. We who profess to understand and demonstrate Jesus' teaching with the 'signs following' can never for an instant forget that it is his theology that heals the sick and sinning!" Ella W. Hoag, 1927 - The Third Commandment "The name Christian Scientist is a sacred title to bear, a title to make one constantly prayerful, constantly on guard, constantly ready to reflect the light, constantly ready to demonstrate good in daily living." Eunice F. Maurer, 1922 - Thought and Thinking "Most people are agreed that to think means to live, but not so many are aware that right thinking leads to eternal life, with all that this implies in the way of present blessedness." Annie M. Knott, 1914 - "Thy will be done." "In a state of vision, or wakefulness, I cannot tell which, I saw floating over my head four words: 'Thy will be done.'" L. H. P, 1885 - The Time for Thinkers "Many have been the deceivers and the deceived because no invariable standard was accepted whereby it could be decided as to which thoughts were true and which were false." Ella W. Hoag, 1923 - Timely Thoughts "The anti-scientist has always taught that the seen and the unreal are the real, when the Scriptures affirm that the unseen is the real and eternal." Hanover P. Smith, 1883 - Toleration "In opposing error, wherever found, it should be done with the greatest love and forbearance toward individuals." Lanson P. Norcross, 1892 - The Transcendentalism of Christian Science "To be a true Christian transcendentalist is to have such an abiding conviction of the power and presence of infinite Spirit, that our very mental atmosphere shall radiate healing and inspiration as spontaneously as a rose exhales its fragrance or the sun emits its light." Sue Harper Mims, 1905 - Transformation "In direct line with this teaching of the Master we find St. Paul saying, 'Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,' and in this statement we have a hint of both process and result." Annie M. Knott, 1915 - The "Travail of my Soul" "The class included many highly cultured people, all more or less conversant with the rudiments of Christian Science; while I, a sailor, with only a seaman's knowledge of the world, and no faintest inkling of the field to be opened up before me, felt very much out of place indeed. However, God had called me there, and I had long since been schooled to say: 'Thy will be done.'" Joseph Eastaman, 1892 - Treasure Seekers "For long years, — centuries, perhaps, — human interest has been awakened by rumors of buried treasures awaiting the adventurer's quest on land, or perchance in the depths of the sea, where some gold-laden vessel had gone down in storm or calm." Annie M. Knott, 1925 - The Trial of Jesus "Now come to us newspaper reports of the recent finding of a plate evidently similar to this one, containing an exact copy of the death warrant above mentioned, and setting forth in detail an account of the trial of Jesus before Pontius Pilate." Judge Hanna, 1896 - True Ambition "Christian Science teaches the child as well as the adult to seek perfection in every undertaking, but tells him at the same time that he should desire that his brother do the same." Ella W. Hoag, 1919 - True Compassion "In studying the character of Jesus of Nazareth no quality is found more prominent than the compassion with which he dealt with mankind at all times and under all circumstances." Gladys C. Fulton, 1922 - A True Conception of God "Do Christian Scientists believe in God? This question is often asked us, and the reason for asking it is said to be that the inquirer has been told we do not believe in God. A Christian Scientist being once asked this question replied, 'Why I believe in nothing else.'" Judge Hanna, 1893 - True Consciousness ". . . The realization of the one Mind has brought healing to many who were under sentence of impending death, according to medical opinion, when like a flash of light they saw that God is Mind and also Life, and then they were glad to respond to the high demand of Science to 'give to Mind the glory, honor, dominion, and power everlastingly due its holy name' (Science and Health, p. 143)." Annie M. Knott, 1912 - True Education ". . . We should hold firmly to the prime truth that good men and good women are the safety of society; that in no form of government is civic righteousness so essential as in a democracy where the rulers are the people whose individual rectitude must determine the collective morality of the state and the standards of public ethics." - True Equality "For centuries human beings have been struggling for equality. They have always believed that there should be equality of rights, equality of opportunity, equality of privilege, and have been always crying out against the injustices and limitations which human existence has seemed to present." Ella W. Hoag, 1920 -