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"Scientific
prayer"
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Personally
I owe my life to Christian
Science. It came to me when I was
lying in a hospital, unconscious
and not expected to live through
the night. In the epistle of
James we read, "The effectual
fervent prayer of a righteous man
availeth much." Such is the power
of scientific prayer that the
first absent treatment lifted me
out of the jaws of death and I
was pronounced out of danger the
next morning.
M.
S. Temple Hill
Christian Science Sentinel
November 28, 1925
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Spiritual
Understanding
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We
find in Christian Science that it
is not enough to see God, Truth,
intellectually; we must reflect
the truth and live it in order to
grow in understanding.
Josephine
Meador
Christian Science Sentinel
November 28, 1925
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Christian
Science
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I
now know, positively, through
personal experiences of physical
healing and spiritual growth,
that Christian Science is not
just a human doctrine, but a
divine discovery, a revelation of
the law of God.
John
George Sumner
Christian Science Sentinel
November 14, 1925
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Defective
Eye
Healed
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Our
infant son was healed in one
treatment of a defective eye
which was about half the size of
the other, after the trained
nurse in charge had told us it
would probably never be
normal.
Edith
C. Montague
Christian Science Sentinel
August 11, 1928
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Prejudice
Healed
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My
first healing was that of being
prejudiced against Mrs. Eddy.
This healing came about through
my reading of "The Life of Mary
Baker Eddy," written by Sibyl
Wilbur. I made very slow progress
until after this healing, though
some six years or more had been
spent seeking along the line of
Christian Science. But since
this, to me, all-important
healing I have been blessed with
progress and proofs
many.
Phoebe
Ikerman
Christian Science Sentinel
August 4, 1928
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"God's
protecting
power"
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An
experience about a year and a
half ago brought to me a clearer
realization of the truth of the
statement in Science and Health
(p. 469), "If mortals claimed no
other Mind and accepted no other,
sin would be unknown." Two men
came into our place of business
one evening and ordered some
goods, but instead of paying for
them leveled a gun at my husband.
Looking round I saw the gun and
what they were attempting to do.
It came to me instantly that in
reality there was no evil
influence or power to impel them
to rob us. I talked to them for a
few moments, and they turned and
left without taking anything. My
husband and I were both very
grateful for this proof of God's
protecting power.
Callie
W. Dicken
Christian Science Sentinel
June 23, 1928
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Spiritual
Protection
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.
. . When a son was away at
school, one Saturday morning a
feeling of great apprehension
came over me concerning him. I
wondered how I could stand it
until I could hear from him, as
it took a letter five days to
reach me. Then the thought came
that since God was with him,
therefore I need not fear —
no harm could come to him. I kept
those thoughts until I felt
relieved. Later he told me that
on that particular Saturday he
and his chum were going to a
football game, but after they
were all ready decided to stay in
their room and read. Neither knew
why they had changed their minds.
During the game a pillar broke
where they would have sat. They
were thus protected as all are
who depend upon the all-wise
Father-Mother God.
Wilma
Merrell
Christian Science Sentinel
June 2, 1928
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Spiritual
Healing
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.
. . I asked God to show me how to
find healing. A few days later,
He directed me in a wonderful
manner to a former friend, a
Christian Scientist. She brought
me the textbook, "Science and
Health with Key to the
Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
Before I began to read it, I
asked for support and help to be
able to know if this were God's
way. He revealed Himself to me as
the ever present, Father-Mother,
divine Mind; and I was able to
grasp the contents of the book,
and to apply them immediately;
and I was healed of my diseases.
Through reading the textbook
alone I was healed.
Elise
Pohl
Christian Science Sentinel
June 2, 1928
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"A
definite
rule"
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When
Christ Jesus was on earth he
proved, as well as taught, that
through understanding the power
of God, both sickness and sin are
healed. Although his immediate
disciples were able to follow his
example to some extent, he did
not leave with them a definite
rule which might be universally
understood and applied. There was
such a rule, however; and over
fifty years ago it was discovered
by a gentle New England woman,
Mary Baker Eddy, who first
demonstrated its availability and
practicality, and then generously
gave it to all the world in her
book, "Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures."
At one time it was my privilege
to be a member of Mrs. Eddy's
household, and it is a great joy
to me to be able to testify to
her unselfish love, her tender
compassion, her marvelous
spirituality, and the wonderful
purity of her life, every moment
of which was devoted to an
untiring labor for the
advancement of the Cause of
Christian Science.
Caroline
Foss Gyger
Christian Science Sentinel
October 3, 1925
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"Pray
. . . for a baptism of
love"
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Not
long ago, a young student of
Christian Science found herself
treading a thorny path in a
strange city. Those with whom she
was associated in a business way
were generally unkind and
disagreeable. Where there should
have been joy in her work, there
was a sense of dread, and
unhappiness was settling down
like a pall upon her young life.
One who had been studying God's
law a little longer than this
student, on being told of the
apparent inharmony, reminded her
that she had left off her armor,
and advised her to pray each
morning, on her way to her day's
work, for a baptism of love which
would enable her to give forth
loving thoughts toward all with
whom she came in contact. In a
few days the miracle was wrought:
the armor of loving thoughts had
repelled all unlike these
thoughts.
Ida
Capen Fleming
Christian Science Sentinel
October 3, 1925
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"Thy
will be
done"
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Human
will stands for all that is
opposed to the divine Mind. . . .
It was the belief in human will
that led the prodigal son to
leave his father's house. It was
human will that seemed to deprive
him of his substance and
heritage, and took him into the
illusive, deceptive paths of
mortal error until he sank into
companionship with swine. Then,
when the undesirability, yes, the
nothingness of the belief in a
life apart from God was seen, he
came to himself and arose from
his material sense of life and
pleasure. Was not the desire to
become as one of his father's
servants the humble recognition
of the necessity for obedience to
the divine will? And this
recognition awakened him to his
privileges as a son.
. . . It is imperative at the
present hour to examine thought
carefully in order to learn
whether it is human will or the
divine will that is governing
us.
Genevieve
P. Olson
Christian Science Sentinel
September 12, 1925
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His
Presence
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.
. . In the secret of His presence
/ All the seeming fades away, /
All the shadows, all the
dreaming, / As we wake to God's
own day — / Wake to man as
His reflection, / Safe in Love,
reality; / In the secret of His
presence / We shall find
eternity.
Mabel
A. Birdno
Christian Science Sentinel
September 5, 1925
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Man,
the Image of
God
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Is
it said that man has inherited
some disease? This must be false,
man's Father being God, in whom
is no element of disease and from
whom man receives only the
heritage of eternally perfect
health. Is a quick temper
condoned in one who is said to be
"just like his father"? This
cannot in reality be true. Man's
Father-Mother God is infinitely
patient, tender, and loving, and
God's likeness reflects nothing
unlike these divine traits. Is a
sinful appetite indulged with the
excuse that it was inherited?
What a priceless blessing to all
mankind to know the utter falsity
of this evil belief . .
.
Jane
Stannard Johnson
Christian Science Sentinel
August 1, 1925
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Mrs.
Eddy
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I
admire Mrs. Eddy, the Founder of
Christian Science, in deep ways,
and I frankly consider her one of
the most remarkable people in
religious history. She has . . .
left her mark for good on
countless lives: indeed she has
affected our generation more than
any other single man or
woman.
Rev.
James Black, M.A., D.D.
From a church paper. Quoted in
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Christian Science Sentinel
June 13, 1925
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"Marvelous
change"
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. . The doctor pronounced my case
malignant trouble of the stomach,
and gave me from two to three
weeks to live under opiates. It
was then that my niece, hearing
of a healing which a friend of
hers had received in Christian
Science, asked me if I would not
try it, and I readily consented.
In less than one hour a
practitioner was standing by my
bedside, with such a sweet,
smiling face that it seemed to me
like the face of an angel. Then
she spoke to me so tenderly of
God's love and healing power, and
of what He could do for me; of
the wonderful woman, Mary Baker
Eddy, who gave us the spiritual
interpretation of His Word that
all who read may understand. I
surely had an instantaneous
healing, for I began to feel
better immediately. Indeed, I
felt like a new person. My niece
on coming into my room stood
amazed at the marvelous change
that had taken place in me. In
three days I was up and about the
house.
Annie
S. Joy
Christian Science Sentinel
May 30, 1925
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Comfort,
Healing, and
Reformation
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An
appealing story is told of a
little boy who was troubled with
an annoying physical difficulty
and who asked his mother to read
to him from the textbook,
"Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures" by Mary Baker
Eddy, that little book that has
brought comfort and healing to so
many sufferers. The mother read
many pages before the fever left
the little lad, and then he
dropped off into a peaceful
sleep, to awaken the next morning
quite his happy, healthy self.
Several days later this mother
received a letter couched in
crude English, written in a
large, unformed hand, asking her
to send the writer of the letter
the name of the book out of which
she had read to her son on the
night before mentioned, and going
on to explain that the writer, a
professional robber, had at the
time been concealed under the
little boy's bed, having entered
the house a short time previous
with the definite plan to rob.
Hearing the beautiful message of
hope and love that the mother
read to her little son, he had
been healed of his criminal
desire and was eager to know more
of the truth contained in the
book and to learn, if possible,
to apply it to his daily
life.
Eleanor
G. R. Young
Christian Science Sentinel
May 16, 1925
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The
"still small
voice"
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I
have learned to walk and talk
with God. I feel His
ever-presence daily, and have
heard the "still small voice"
many times above the testimony of
the false material senses. One
night, after working very
earnestly on a problem in our
home, I heard, "Peace, be still."
I knew that my work was done; and
the next morning the patient was
well.
Ethel
Lane
Christian Science Sentinel
March 17, 1928
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"The
simple truths"
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Several
years ago, while I was teaching
my class of eight-year-old
children in Sunday school, a
little girl asked how she should
go about ridding herself of a
wart on her finger. Having been
troubled with eight warts on my
hands for three years, I turned
the problem back on the class and
was amazed to hear the simple
truths which the children gave to
the little girl asking for help.
They little realized how much
their teacher was gaining. The
subject was then dismissed, and
not until after the church
service was it brought to my
attention by the mother of the
little girl, who came to me
rejoicing that the wart had
disappeared during Sunday school.
On taking off my gloves after
church I realized that five of
the warts on my hands had also
gone, and the next morning the
remaining three
disappeared.
Jane
W. McKee
Christian Science Sentinel
March 10, 1928
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"God
can heal
anything."
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When
Christian Science was presented
to me I was a complete wreck,
having suffered for three years
from a growth in my right side
and many other ailments which
were supposed to be the result of
this growth. After a lot of
persuasion I finally decided to
go to a hospital, when suddenly a
wonderful thing happened. I had
occasion to go to a Christian
Science practitioner's office for
a package that had been left
there in a neighborly way, and
after thanking him for the
package I was prompted to ask him
for some literature on Christian
Science; so he lent me a copy of
"Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures" by Mary Baker
Eddy. As I left the office he
said, "God can heal anything."
That was what impressed me. The
next day I returned for a
treatment; and with that one
treatment I was instantaneously
healed. I am so grateful, not
only for this beautiful healing,
but for the wonderful joy and
spiritual uplift that have come
to me since taking up the study
of Christian Science.
Emily
Gage Cumming
Christian Science Sentinel
February 25, 1928
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Articles &
Testimonies
Uplifting,
Healing,
Transfiguring
This
area contains some of the articles, testimonies,
and other items of interest which have been
recently added to our Web site.
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The
Finished Work of
God
"It will be readily apparent that
the understanding that the real
creation is perfect, complete,
finished, must have a very marked
effect on the lives of those who
possess it."
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Healing
of
Illness
"Some years ago I was attacked by
a malady of which I cannot give
the name, as it was never
diagnosed; but the symptoms were
intense internal pain, so severe
that it often caused the tears to
run down my face."
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God
Alone
Exalts
"All true exaltation belongs to
God; consequently, there can be
no exaltation for man except as
his unity with God is
demonstrated."
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Thoroughness
". . . When an appearance of
error flaunts itself, it is not
sufficient to think or to say,
That is a belief of envy,
resentment, greed, senility, or
whatever the case may indicate.
The mental work must be pushed
further than that."
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Our
Leader's
Hymns
"Occasionally
the question is asked from
various parts of the field, as to
how frequently our Leader's hymns
should be sung in the church
services."
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Spinal
Meningitis
Healed
"Our little daughter, aged five,
had become suddenly ill. Her
condition reached such a stage
that it alarmed her mother, who
was at that time merely
interested in Christian
Science."
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Dreams
"Evil is never anything other
than a dream, which seems real to
us so long as we cling to a
material sense of
things."
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Kind
Lions
"Ann
is seven years old. She is deeply
interested in all the wonderful
knowledge that is daily unfolding
itself to her at home and at
school; but above all she is
interested in what she learns
about God in Christian
Science."
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Causation
Spiritual
"It is God's work, which stands
forever, to which nothing can be
added and from which nothing can
be taken away. Completeness and
perfection prevail in the
universe of Spirit."
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Compassion
"He was the friend of publicans
and
sinners,
/ He
walked among the lowly and the
meek; . . ."
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"As
we forgive our
debtors"
"When Jesus taught that
incomparable petition, 'Forgive
us our debts,' and then added the
yet more remarkable condition,
'as we forgive our debtors,' he
certainly presented to mankind
the way to attain limitless
possibilities of
good."
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Mother's
Evening
Prayer
"O gentle presence, peace and joy
and power; / O Life divine, that
owns each waiting hour, . .
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Ruling
One's Own
Spirit
"In Proverbs we read, 'He that
hath no rule over his own spirit
is like a city that is broken
down, and without
walls.'"
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Questions
and
Answers
". . .
I
believe in this removal ['the
removal of a person to heaven,
without his subjection to
death'] being possible after
all the footsteps requisite have
been taken up to the very throne,
up to the spiritual sense and
fact of divine substance,
intelligence, Life, and
Love."
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A
Prayer
"Oh, lift mine eyes above the
sons of
men,
/ That
they may fasten on the things of
Thee; . . ."
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"Medical
Paternalism"
"'The Constitution of this
Republic should make provision
for medical freedom as well as
for religious freedom. To
restrict the art of healing to
one class of men and deny equal
privileges to others will
constitute the Bastille of
medical science. All such laws
are un-American and
despotic.'"
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"Glorious
liberty"
". . . Incredible as it may seem,
I had not been sober for two
years. I had often tried to
conquer the craving for strong
drink, but had failed utterly,
and had become such a slave to it
that I almost lived on it, taking
very little else."
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Paralysis
Healed
"A dear neighbor who was a
Christian Scientist came in often
to see me, offering each time to
help me; but it seemed to me
futile for one who knew nothing
about disease to attempt to heal
what three eminent physicians had
failed to relieve."
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Questions
and
Answers
"How does Mrs. Eddy know that
she has read and studied
correctly, if one must deny the
evidences of the senses? She had
to use her eyes to
read."
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"This
wonderful
revelation"
"A few years ago I knew nothing
about Christian Science, and was
fully convinced I did not wish to
know anything about
it."
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Petition
"Dear God,
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Teach
me to
pray
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Love
Goes
Before
"As love is not won by fostering
hate, so we gain spirituality by
dwelling upon spiritual things,
holding thought to spiritual
Truth, spiritualizing our aims
and desires."
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Introduction
to a
Lecture
"'The time of the end,'
prophesied by Daniel, is here and
now. Said that prophet, 'Many
shall be purified, and made
white, and tried; but the wicked
shall do wickedly: and none of
the wicked shall understand; but
the wise shall
understand.'"
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Address
to the Concord Church, February,
1899
"Remember, thou canst be brought
into no condition, be it ever so
severe, where Love has not been
before thee and where its tender
lesson is not awaiting thee.
Therefore despair not nor murmur,
for that which seeketh to save,
to heal, and to deliver, will
guide thee, if thou seekest this
guidance."
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"Proof
of God's
love"
"When our third son was two years
old, medical science pronounced
him useless to the world. He had
developed physically, with the
exception of walking, but
mentally he had made little or no
progress."
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Injuries
Healed
"I was run over by a truck, and
error tried to tell me that I was
going to die."
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Eyes
Straightened
".
. . I was under Christian Science
treatment, and asked a loving
practitioner if she thought my
child's eyes could be
straightened by Christian
Science."
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Questions
and
Answers
"If all that is mortal is a dream
or error, is not our capacity for
formulating a dream, real; is it
not God-made; and if God-made,
can it be wrong, sinful, or an
error?"
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Beliefs
of Old Age
Rejected
"Not years, but the acceptance of
the belief that mortal
experiences are real is what bows
the form, dims the eye, furrows
the cheek and brow."
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Christian
Science
"Hungering and thirsting after a
better life, we shall have it,
and become Christian Scientists;
learn God aright, and know
something of the ideal man, the
real man, harmonious and
eternal."
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Flu
Healed
"The doctors and nurses said
there was no hope, and that I
would grow weaker until the end.
My sister, who had been in
Science for several years, came
in and said, 'Well, if you are
through, I'll see what Christian
Science can do for
her.'"
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Infection
Healed
"I awoke one morning with a
severe case of conjunctivitis. It
was a day for which much had been
planned, and I was bitterly
disappointed when I found that I
could not open my
eyes."
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Prayer
Answered
"The burden seemed too heavy to
carry longer, so I earnestly
prayed all night, asking God for
help and guidance to see the
Christ-way."
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"Completely
healed"
"I do not know why I should have
been opposed to Christian
Science, as, to my knowledge, I
had never heard the two words put
together before; but I was
immediately prejudiced, and said,
'Oh, that must be faith cure, and
I could not have any faith.' My
friend replied, 'No, it is not
faith cure: for I was healed, and
I did not have any
faith.'"
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Foreign
Material Removed from
Eye
"About
a year ago, while at my work, a
soft spot in the emery wheel with
which I was working flew off so
quickly and unexpectedly that a
great deal of the emery went into
my eye, making it impossible for
me to see."
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"There
is no connection between a lie
and
Truth"
". . .
From
no possible point of view is it
correct to say that a lie is
always a lie about something.
Hence I repeat that absolutely it
is not possible to lie about
Truth, and relatively it is not
possible to talk about evil at
all without telling a lie about a
lie."
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Mrs.
Eddy's
Corrections
"In his November 29, 1907 letter
to Judge Septimus J. Hanna,
Edward A. Kimball insisted that
he had never taught that man has
spiritual organs. But the
following page from Mr. Kimball
shows that he did hold to a
theosophical notion of spiritual
organs."
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Questions
and
Answers
"The 'man of sorrows' knew that
the man of joys, his spiritual
self, or Christ, was the Son of
God; and that the mortal mind,
not the immortal Mind, suffered.
The human manifestation of the
Son of God was called the Son of
man, or Mary's son."
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Prayer
for Country and
Church
"Pray
that the divine presence may
still guide and bless our chief
magistrate, those associated with
his executive trust, and our
national judiciary; give to our
congress wisdom, and uphold our
nation with the right arm of His
righteousness."
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Unfoldment
of
Love
". . . I analyzed my concept of
God before I knew anything of
Christian Science. I had thought
of Him as being the originator of
condemnation, sacrifice, and
evil, and had decided that the
less I knew about Him the
better."
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Chemical
Burns
Overcome
". . . My little dog apparently
drank a solution of caustic
potash. He was found some days
later, and upon examination it
was found that his tongue had
entirely gone, and death seemed
inevitable."
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Questions
and
Answers
"If mesmerism has the power
attributed to it by the gentleman
referred to, it should neither be
taught nor practised, but should
be conscientiously
condemned."
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Today
"The Psalmist writes, 'This is
the day which the Lord hath made;
we will rejoice and be glad in
it.' Is not this what we all long
to do — rejoice in each new
day as it is unfolded to
us?"
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Pure
Rationality
"'. . . [Mrs. Eddy's]
message is the most purely
rational that has been delivered
to man; . . .'"
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Self-Abnegation
"There
is nothing that the Christian
Scientist desires more earnestly
to attain than real
self-abnegation."
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Message
for
1900
"In
Revelation St. John refers to
what 'the Spirit saith unto the
churches.' His allegories are the
highest criticism on all human
action, type, and system. His
symbolic ethics bravely rebuke
lawlessness. His types of purity
pierce corruption beyond the
power of the pen."
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"The
power of
God"
"I can bring many witnesses to
vouch for the truth of this
wonderful healing; for it
attracted a great deal of
attention, and is still often
spoken of among those who, though
not Scientists, were convinced
witnesses of the power of
God."
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Look
Up!
"Mrs. Eddy tells us in the
Glossary to Science and Health
(p. 586) that 'eyes' mean
'spiritual discernment, —
not material but mental.' In the
light of this definition we can
more easily understand the
Biblical expression, 'Lift up
your eyes, and look.'"
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"Many
blessings"
"When temptation comes, whether
it be sin, sickness, poverty, or
what not, we need only to draw
closer to God and know that as we
replace sense-testimony with
spiritual reality there is
nothing left to cause
anxiety."
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"Well-being
and
freedom"
"During the time of drought and
depression which this part of the
country went through two years
ago, my husband's business seemed
in a very bad way indeed, the
bank having stopped giving any
more credit, and the fear was
expressed that the business would
have to close down and the work
and savings of years be
lost."
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Remarks
by Clara
Barton
"'Mrs. Eddy should have the
respect, admiration, and love of
the whole nation, for she is its
greatest woman.'"
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Flesh
Wound
Healed
"One day my little son fell on a
foot scraper which had a heavy
spring on it, and the spring ran
into his mouth between the gums
and cheek."
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Tumor
Healed
"On my way home after the
treatment, I found that my
thought, which had seemed to be
so full of fear and hate, was
full of a love that I had never
experienced before."
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The
Lesson-Sermon
"Never before has the Bible been
studied as it is today by
Christian Scientists, and in the
clear light of divine Truth we
have glimpses of the holy city of
Revelation which, despite mortal
blindness to spiritual facts, is
an ever-present
reality."
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Hearing
Impairment
Healed
"For over a year I was noticeably
deaf, being unable to hear an
ordinary conversation unless it
was especially directed to me;
neither could I hear many
consecutive words from a
speaker's platform, although
seated in close proximity to the
speaker."
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"Thy
will be
done"
"Who would think of fearing that
which he knew could bring him
only perfect happiness? Yet
perfect happiness is what our
Father-Mother, Love, has in store
for each one of us."
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The
Word is with
Power
"All Christian Scientists are
most deeply interested in this
power of the Word, and all are
longing to understand and
demonstrate it
perfectly."
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Drinking
and Smoking Habits
Healed
". . . From my youth, I had been
a heavy drinker and smoker. I
used to boast that I would never
be a teetotaler; and I never went
near one if I could avoid
it."
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Abnormal
Growth
Healed
". . . I stood firm in the
realization that nothing exists
but God and His universe, peopled
with His ideas, all governed and
controlled by His spiritual law,
all as perfect as the Father,
now."
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Many
Beautiful
Healings
"Christian Science is indeed the
truth which is steadily leading
us out of the bondage of sense
into the glorious liberty of the
sons of God."
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"The
true
thinker"
"Sincerity, mental elasticity,
humility, and teachableness are
characteristics of the true
thinker; consequently the adult
who has grown proud of his
opinions must regain
childlikeness, before he can
become a thinker or understand
Truth."
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Humility
"In 'Miscellaneous Writings' Mrs.
Eddy, in speaking of humility,
says (p. 356): 'This virtue
triumphs over the flesh; it is
the genius of Christian
Science.'"
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"A
better and happier
existence"
"When a boy in the teens I became
very despondent over my prospects
in life, and lost all interest in
everything, becoming somewhat of
a recluse. The despondency grew
from year to year until it
developed into suicidal
melancholia . . ."
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The
"pearl of great
price"
"My loving desire is to help all
those I can to realize their
blessed heritage as God's dear
children; and it is such a joy to
know that good is always
unfolding and will continue to
unfold more and more through all
eternity."
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"I
love Christian
Science."
"A few years ago I listened to a
testimony on Christian Science by
a lady who stated that she had
been a student for thirty-three
years; and after enumerating some
of the blessings she had
received, she closed her remarks
by saying, 'I love Christian
Science.'"
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Signs
of the
Times
"Christianity has in it one idea
that makes it quite distinct from
the others. Christianity affirms
that the main gateway to God is
through love."
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Need
of the
Spirit
"We must find the open door to
the very heart of divine Love
before we can accomplish
instantaneous healing. We must
possess not only the letter but
the spirit as well, before we can
reach this great
desideratum."
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"The
kingdom of his dear
Son"
"To all who are unhappy, sad,
poor, sick, or suffering
Christian Science comes with
healing from the false belief of
separation from God, restoring
them to their right place in 'the
kingdom of his dear
Son.'"
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Reply
to a
Critic
"It is not difficult to note the
sharp contrast which the
Scriptures point out between a
material method of healing and
the divine method."
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"Physician,
heal
thyself"
"Occasionally students of
Christian Science are called upon
for treatment before they have
themselves received complete
healing."
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Dominion
"The place where each one must
exercise dominion is in his own
thinking. It is there his battles
with evil must always be fought;
there all his victories must be
won."
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Distribution
"A number of years ago Mrs. Eddy
was asked by a student in one of
her classes to what extent
Christian Scientists should
endeavor to bring this healing
truth to the notice of the public
by printed articles."
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Science
and the
Senses
"Jesus' personality in the flesh,
so far as material sense could
discern it, was like that of
other men; but Science exchanges
this human concept of Jesus for
the divine ideal, his spiritual
individuality . . ."
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Consecration
"Continuous devotion to God is
the highway to spiritual
attainment."
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Children
"The care of young children
should always be approached from
the standpoint that it is a holy
work."
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"Armor
on"
"In the epistle to the Romans
Paul gives this sage counsel:
'Let us put on the armour of
light.'"
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Back
Pain
Healed
"I do not know how long I worked,
but for a time I was not
conscious of a material body,
— I just knew that man is
spiritual, 'neither in nor of
matter.'"
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Divine
Protection and
Healing
"I began the study of Christian
Science nine years ago after
attending church a few times with
a sister who was
interested."
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"Be
ye
thankful"
"No one in the world today
responds to Paul's exhortation,
'Be ye thankful,' more readily
than does he who has experienced
some measure of the marvelous
blessings which accrue to the
beneficiary of Christian
Science."
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Overcoming
Sympathetic
Mesmerism
"Not by knowing error —
sorrow, sickness, misery —
can one comfort and heal it;
rather is aid given by knowing
its nothingness, its utter
unreality, for God knows of man
only his perfection; and nothing
is true of man which God does not
know about him."
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Taking
the Long Look at
Life
"We can find harmony or heaven
only by living love and
cultivating the graces of Spirit.
Happiness can come to us only as
our understanding of Life is
improved."
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"Transformed
in thought and
deed"
". . . I was suffering from
several so-called incurable
diseases, and three of the best
medical doctors refused to
prescribe, knowing that they
could do nothing for
me."
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The
Secret
"Though
mists of mortal sense may seem to
hide / The light of Truth, yet
Love will break the spell, /
Reveal the glorious fact that
none beside / Our Father reigns;
within His house we
dwell."
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Depression
Healed
"With deepest gratitude I offer
my testimony of Christian Science
healing, hoping that it may lend
encouragement to
another."
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Respiratory
Disease
Healed
"Since Christian Science has been
revealed to me I am striving
daily to have that Mind in me
'which was also in Christ Jesus'
and our revered Leader, and I am
most humbly grateful."
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Signs
of the
Times
"'If physical disease is God's
will and desire, why did Christ,
who came to do His will, fight
against it and heal the
sick?'"
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Signs
of the
Times
"In a recent sermon prelude, the
Rev. George Laughton dealt with
the question: 'Should the law
compel Christian Scientists and
others, who do not believe in
academic medicine, to employ a
physician or to use
antitoxin?'"
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Changing
Our
Standpoint
"Many a prayer, many an honest
struggle, many a deep experience
often appears to be needed before
one learns the lesson of
approaching all Christian Science
demonstration from the
unchangeable standpoint of Spirit
and spirituality."
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Seeing
and
Acknowledging
"So long as we accept the
material evidence, whether
willingly or unwillingly, we fail
to see the spiritual evidence,
which to the spiritual sense is
never absent, namely, God
expressed in His idea, man, in
His own image and
likeness."
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"God's
healing and protecting
power"
"I was instantaneously healed of
the result of two accidents,
through the realization that man
is a spiritual idea and does not
live in a material
body."
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Freed
from
Discords
". . . I know that only by living
this truth and letting my light
shine can I hope to prove the
deep gratitude I
feel."
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"Come
and
dine"
"In the twenty-first chapter of
John's gospel is the story of the
appearance of Jesus to some of
his disciples after his
resurrection, a story which is
radiant with the glory of
spiritual
understanding."
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Well
Doinge is the Fruite of Doinge
Well
"The Scriptural metaphors, —
of the woman in travail, the
great red dragon that stood ready
to devour the child as soon as it
was born, and the husbandmen that
said, 'This is the heir: come,
let us kill him, that the
inheritance may be ours,' —
are type and shadow of this
hour."
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Signs
of the
Times
"The secret of living happily and
effectively is not in externals;
it is not in possessions and
environment, in clothes and
furnishings and the tools of
living. It is in the attitude of
the mind toward life. It is in
what we think."
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"The
healing effects of
Truth"
"About eight years ago Christian
Science was presented to me, and
I feel so grateful and happy
about it. Many times have I been
able to see the healing effects
of Truth."
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The
Second Bishop of
Kensington
". . . In my invitation I drew
your attention to the challenge
which the action of that body of
Christians called Christian
Scientists makes. It is to me
indisputable that they do heal
the sick both in body and
mind."
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Reply
to a
Critic
". . . The chronic critics of
Mrs. Eddy and of Christian
Science are often found quoting
isolated statements, or even
parts of sentences from Science
and Health and holding them up to
ridicule."
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Healing
of
Fatigue
"Before this great light came to
me, life was simply one heavy
burden and weariness laid on top
of another."
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"The
greatest
blessing"
"However indifferent my attitude
toward Christian Science when
first it was brought to my
attention, I could no longer
ignore it when it healed me
instantaneously of a sickness of
which medical aid had failed to
relieve me."
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Divine
Theology
". . . As Christian Scientists
let us all protect, adhere to,
love, and revere that holy
theology which is part and parcel
of God's own Science, which
includes the understanding of
Christ's Christianity, and which
is absolutely necessary to the
scientific healing of the sick
and the sinner."
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"Profoundly
grateful"
"One day SOS calls repeatedly
came to us from a freighter which
had been torpedoed and was
sinking with eighty-four men on
board."
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The
Voice of
God
"Since God is Mind and Mind is
good, we can only know God
through His good thoughts; we
therefore hear His voice when we
discern His thoughts."
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The
Child and the
Teacher
"What a blessed spot is a
Christian Science Sunday School!
Here the child and the teacher,
in heaven-born gladness, meet to
hear, to see, to understand the
living presence of the
Christ."
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Healing
of
Burns
"While cooking on the top of the
gas stove, I lighted the oven and
left it for a few minutes. When I
opened the oven door there was a
loud explosion, and I was bathed
in flame."
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Love's
Demands
"The devoted disciple in the
laboratory of his own life gains
the power which enables him to
destroy the claims of
error."
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"As
an eagle stirreth up her
nest"
"The observant may learn many
useful lessons from nature, and
the Bible abounds with similes
and metaphors taken from the
daily lives of plants and
animals."
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"Our
Father-Mother
God"
"One Sunday morning last spring,
while the juvenile Sunday school
class was assembled in our little
circle, the thought was expressed
that it was 'Mother's
Day.'"
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Healing
of
Sorrow
"One day my husband came to me
with beaming face, saying that he
had heard of Christian Science
and that it healed."
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One
Holy
Purpose
"Nothing can truly prosper which
is not in and of the infinitude
of God, good. Then to find a
right purpose we must certainly
look to God for it, since He is
the one and only originator of
all good."
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"Filled
with
gratitude"
"To make the story short, I
underwent six operations, with
the result that I had to give up
my position and go home to
Denmark with an almost stiff and
useless arm."
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Skull
Fracture
Healed
"The doctor, a prominent surgeon,
told me that with a fracture of
that nature my husband could live
but a few hours."
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"Thought
governs the
body"
"I should like to share an
experience which was a further
proof to me that thought governs
the body, reflecting on it
harmony or disorder."
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Questions
and
Answers
"What did Jesus mean when he said
to the dying thief, 'To-day shalt
thou be with me in
paradise'?"
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"Ask,
and it shall be given
you"
"In the Sermon on the Mount,
Jesus not only said, 'Seek, and
ye shall find; knock, and it
shall be opened unto you,' but
also, 'Ask, and it shall be given
you.'"
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Courage
"There is, perhaps, no quality
more necessary to successful
endeavor than
courage."
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Grateful
for
Healings
". . . As a girl in high school I
realized I was losing the hearing
in one of my ears. At the end of
several months the hearing had
entirely gone."
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Reverence
"Reverence is a holy quality and
has to do with holy things. It is
that which honors and reveres all
that is true and valuable and
noble and good."
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Restored
to
Health
"Christian Science has taught me
to know that it is the darkened
thought that produces fear and
discordant conditions, and that
just in proportion as the light
of this glorious truth dawns on
one's consciousness can fear be
overcome."
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Depression
and Paranoia
Healed
"The faithful doctor, who very
earnestly and honestly tried to
cure me, finally said that
another month would find me in an
insane asylum, for every known
remedy had been
exhausted."
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Signs
of the
Times
"Most medical men are agreed that
seventy-five percent of the cases
of influenza they have recently
attended have been directly
induced by fear."
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Demonstration
"It is the truth the words stand
for which is the power, and it
takes more than a mere repetition
of words to bring their substance
into realization."
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Introduction
to a
Lecture
"I am glad of this opportunity
for a foreword to the lecture to
be delivered this evening, that I
may speak of Christian Science,
the cause and subject nearest my
heart, . .
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"For
Which Works Do Ye Stone
Me?"
"The carnal mind was enraged
because of the truth which
declared that the flesh profiteth
nothing. Enraged at learning that
material man is not God's image
and likeness, and that the pains
and pleasures of the senses are
unreal, it vented itself upon the
Teacher. But it failed in its
attempt to free the world of
troublesome truth."
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"Life
is real, and death is the
illusion."
"It has been my custom to read
from Science and Health or some
of our literature before going to
sleep, and one night soon after
calling upon the practitioner to
treat me, I was awakened with a
sense of having been close to the
shadow of death."
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The
Right
Place
". . . There are times in human
experience when one apparently
finds himself in very unpleasant
and discordant surroundings from
which he longs to escape. What is
he to do then?"
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Spiritual
Vision
"In so far as the student of
Christian Science understands
that man as God's idea is
coexistent with God, the divine
Principle of all, and obeys God's
loving behests, just so far can
he prove the omnipotence,
omniscience, and omnipresence of
the divine Mind."
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Dream
and the
Awakening
"Who has not had the experience
of realizing, in the midst of a
disturbing dream, that it was,
indeed, 'only a dream,' and would
pass away when he awakened from
sleep."
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Injuries
Healed
"While standing near a trapdoor,
it was opened without my noticing
it, and on stepping backward I
fell, striking my spine on a
cement floor about eight feet
below."
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Smoking
Habit
Healed
"Christian Science was brought to
my notice about four years ago by
my sister, who had been healed of
a disease which doctors stated
was incurable."
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The
Law of
Supply
"When Mrs. Eddy gained the
spiritual understanding of the
Bible, she knew at once that her
own healing had been brought
about through the natural
operation of divine law; that
this law had not through some
special dispensation operated in
her behalf, but, as law, was
always present and always in
operation."
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Ailments
Healed
"About five years ago I was
indeed at man's extremity, but it
proved to be God's opportunity;
for an understanding of man's
relationship to God came to me
through the reading of the
Christian Science
literature."
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"He
shall call upon me, and I will
answer
him."
"Today, after several years of
study and more beautiful
demonstrations than I could
enumerate,
—
one, the healing of a disease of
over twenty years' standing,
—
I thank God for the most
practical, purifying, and
elevating influence that ever
came into my life."
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Mastery
". . . It is well to ponder
Paul's words to the Corinthians,
his conclusion being reached from
watching those engaged in the
Roman games. He says, 'Every man
that striveth for the mastery is
temperate in all
things.'"
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God's
Ideas
"God is unchangeable, eternal,
including all that is good; and
to learn what God is, unfolds
what creation is; . .
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Complete
Restoration to
Health
"I was afflicted with defective
sight and defective hearing from
birth, had worn glasses from
childhood, but even with the aid
of glasses at times it was
difficult for me to see to
read."
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Grateful
for
Healing
"Having been healed by mental
surgery, I wish to give my
experience, believing that it
will help those who still cling
to the belief that human hands
are necessary to adjust displaced
organs and dislocated
vertebrae."
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Something
for a
Beginner
"The truth about God and man,
intelligently brought to bear
upon any situation, is what
constitutes a Christian Science
treatment."
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God's
Man
"When Jesus sent out his twelve
disciples 'to heal all manner of
sickness and all manner of
disease,' he commanded them to
declare the kingdom of heaven at
hand, and among the instructions
he gave was this: 'I send you
forth as sheep in the midst of
wolves: be ye therefore wise as
serpents, and harmless as
doves.'"
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Spiritual
Discernment
"No student of Christian Science
would deny that in order to
attain the best results in
healing, the clearest spiritual
discernment is
needed."
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Fidelity
"Seeking is not sufficient
whereby to arrive at the results
of Science: you must strive; and
the glory of the strife comes of
honesty and humility."
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Restored
to Perfect
Health
"I am a veteran of the Civil War,
and while in the service
sustained injuries which
culminated in a severe
rupture."
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Angels
"When angels visit us, we do not
hear the rustle of wings, nor
feel the feathery touch of the
breast of a dove; but we know
their presence by the love they
create in our hearts."
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Exact
Expression of
Truth
"Mrs. Eddy did not find it easy,
as she frankly admits, to express
metaphysics in physical terms,
but she gave the world an
exposition of Scriptural truth
that has no equal; and there is
no religious literature which
excels in high spiritual teaching
and power that which is the
outcome of her prophetic insight
and foresight."
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Signs
of the
Times
"The firm confidence of the
Christian is well illustrated by
a conversation that occurred a
short time ago between a young
man whose father had just died
and an acquaintance who was
endeavoring to comfort his
sorrowing heart."
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Heaven
"According to the Scriptures
there are different planes of
spiritual existence which are
called heaven. Paul speaks of
someone who was 'caught up to the
third heaven,' and he says, 'Of
such an one will I
glory.'"
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From
Drugs to Christian
Science
"In advertising I described
diseases and their symptoms
according to the prevailing
methods of medical practice, . .
. As time went on I began to
observe that in every town and
city where this advertising was
introduced, an epidemic of
diseases followed."
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Divine
Guidance and
Protection
"Just a little over a year ago I
was able to demonstrate the
guiding and guarding power of
divine Mind in the third battle
of Ypres."
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