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Christian
Science
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 website.
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Broken
Hip
Healed
"I rejoice in the constant
unfolding of the truth and an
ever increasing sense of Love's
ever-presence, which is daily
lifting me to higher
understanding and more joyous
experiences."
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Snippets
"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."
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Health
Restored
". . . We moved to the northern
part of Montana. We were miles
away from city, church, and
neighbors; but the love of our
Father-Mother God is everywhere
present."
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Questions
and
Answers
"Holding the right idea of
man in my mind, I can improve my
own, and other people's
individuality, health, and
morals; whereas, the opposite
image of man, a sinner, kept
constantly in mind, can no more
improve health or morals, than
holding in thought the form of a
boa-constrictor can aid an artist
in painting a
landscape."
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Horses
Calmed
"Words cannot express my
gratitude for Christian Science,
and for the many ministrations
which I have received through it.
My first experience, which I am
about to relate, stands out as
wonderful."
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From
Darkness to
Light
"When I was quite a little girl
my grandmother came to live with
us. She was a woman of culture
and profoundly religious. She
told many Bible stories to my
younger sister and me, but the
one that impressed me most was
the story of Christ's second
coming."
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Devotion
and
Consecration
"It has required heroic
self-sacrifice and devotion for
men and women to stand for their
convictions in each age; and
while we are not called upon at
this period to die for our
religion, we are called upon to
live by it and for it, and to
demonstrate what it
involves."
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Grateful
for
Healing
"I have testified of an
instantaneous healing after a
headlong plunge downstairs
sufficient to break the
neck."
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Effects
of Accident
Healed
"Several years ago, while on a
business trip to the Pacific
coast, I was a passenger in an
automobile that was struck by a
rapidly moving, heavy interurban
train of two cars."
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Healthy
and
Happy
"I fervently prayed that if God
was Love, compassionate and good
as the Bible taught, and if the
Bible was true, then God would
open His ears to my supplication
and show me how to
go."
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Dreams
". . . It behooves us to awake
from this dream of materiality,
that is, to 'arise from the
dead,' so that we may be
conscious of the light, the true
apprehension of existence which
Christ, Truth, gives us, and thus
attain our rightful heritage of
dominion and power."
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Just
Compensation
". . . In the healing practice an
obligation rests on the
practitioner no less than upon
the patient. It should never be
lost sight of that Christian
Science practice is a Christian
ministry rather than a
profession."
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Epilepsy
Healed
"With joy and gratitude I tender
my testimony as to the healing
and regenerating power of
Christian Science."
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Tuberculosis
Healed
"The last [X-ray] picture
revealed no activity of the
trouble whatever; and the same
doctor — the one in charge
of the medical department where I
was working — said, 'I will
take my hat off to you, it's the
most remarkable healing I ever
witnessed.'"
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Dislocated
Bone
Healed
"Some months ago I hurt the
forefinger on the hand that I use
constantly in my work. The bone
in the first joint was at least
half an inch out of place. When
this happened, I immediately
declared the truth about the
spiritual man and his relation to
God."
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Signs
of the
Times
". . . Most of us, including the
children, are not getting enough
time for solid thought and solid
reading, for learning about men
and women of devotion, the kind
who have not counted their lives
dear unto themselves but have
been ready to give them up for
the sake of something
bigger."
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"Enter
not into
temptation"
"It requires fortitude to
confront the false beliefs which
claim to be one's own thinking,
to separate the false from the
true and to reject the former as
unreal. But this method alone
prepares one for quick
discernment between right and
wrong and gives one the victory
over the beliefs of
evil."
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Removing
Stumbling
Blocks
"When individuality is recognized
as consciousness which is ever
coexistent and coactive with God,
or good, separate and apart from
the so-called material body, with
its supposititious five physical
senses, the student begins to
awaken from the Adam or animal
dream."
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Burden
Rolled
Away
"A friend, seeing my need, had
spoken to me of Christian
Science, but I only laughed at
the idea of its helping me. Now,
however, when death seemed very
near, and I was living in the
blackness of despair, I
remembered her offer, and sent
her word that she might send me a
practitioner."
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Reformed
"I had only a blind faith, and
was waiting for an indefinite
something to come along and heal
me of my bad habits and help me
when I was sick. I gave nothing;
made no real effort, except
religiously to attend the
services; but declared myself a
Christian Scientist at every
opportunity, another phase of
trying to take everything without
giving or striving!"
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Signs
of the
Times
"'What We May Learn from
Christian Science,' was the topic
of the third in the series of
addresses on what other
denominations contribute to
religion, delivered by the Rev.
Alfred Grant Walton at the First
Congregational
Church."
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"Scientific
certainty"
"The question presents itself,
How may we gain such an
understanding of Truth as will
enable us to heal disease and sin
after the pattern set us by the
Master, our great
Exemplar?"
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Keeping
Our Demonstrations
Modest
"When we shall have learned all
the wonderful lessons which this
demand of our Leader makes upon
us, we shall be kept from
attempting, as did Peter, to walk
on the water before we are
sufficiently humble to do it
successfully."
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Baby
Healed
"Material means had been
exhausted for our six months' old
baby girl and we expected her to
pass on at any time."
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Our
God
"Does
the way stretch sometimes lonely?
/ Is the answer hard to find? /
Rise above these seeming shadows
/ Turn to God, the only
Mind."
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Universal
Availability of
Good
"'Christian Science strongly
emphasizes the thought that God
is not corporeal, but
incorporeal,
—
that
is, bodiless,' Mrs. Eddy tells us
in 'Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures' (p.
116)."
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On
the Overcoming of
Evil
"Once admitted into
consciousness, evil assumes some
aspect of reality, and its
banishment may require persistent
knowing of the truth. The Apostle
James, recognizing this,
declared, 'Resist the devil
[evil], and he will flee
from you.'"
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Influenza
Healed
"'Error,' says our beloved Leader
in 'Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures' (p. 368), 'is
a coward before Truth;' and time
and again it has fled before a
resolute affirmation
thereof."
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"A
marvelous message of
love"
". . . The literature which my
friend gave me, and 'Science and
Health with Key to the
Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy,
which I borrowed from the local
Reading Room, convinced me at
once that a marvelous message of
love had been given by God to
this age."
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Reply
to a
Critic
"Mrs. Eddy did not attempt to
conform her statement of the
teachings of Christian Science to
the popular theology of her day,
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Life
"' . . . I am learning that Life
is Mind and not matter, and that
Mind forms its own ideals of all
things; that mortal mind peoples
the vegetable, animal, and
mineral kingdoms with creations
of its own, giving to each and
all its own mortal outline, form,
and color, while the formations
of immortal Mind or God are
indestructible, harmonious, and
eternal.'"
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Pain
and Paralysis
Overcome
"The practitioner pointed out to
me that it was necessary to
replace every thought of
resentment and self-pity with a
declaration of love and gratitude
in order for the truth to be
demonstrated."
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Mumps
Healed
"I knew little of Christian
Science, except that its
adherents claimed its healings to
be accomplished without opiates
or other drugs; and, in fact,
without the use of any material
means."
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Pastor
Becomes Christian
Scientist
"I feel that I should witness to
what Christian Science has done
for my enlightenment and
salvation. During nearly forty
years I was a pastor of churches
of one of the larger bodies of
professing
Christians."
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Injuries
Healed
"In the fall of 1911 I was
traveling on a passenger train,
riding in the car next
[to] the engine, when our
train collided head-on with a
freight train. It was a very dark
night, and the accident occurred
about midnight while the train
was running full
speed."
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Smoking
Habit
Healed
"To my surprise the practitioner
said nothing about it until the
conclusion of the interview, when
she simply said, 'If you feel the
desire to smoke, will you please
call me immediately, at any hour
of the day or night, so that I
may help you to overcome any such
desire?'"
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"There
is help for
you!"
"I returned to the home of the
friends with whom I was staying
(who by the way were Christian
Scientists) disheartened and
discouraged. One of them met me
at the door and asked what the
doctor's verdict was. I told her
that there was no hope for me; I
was going blind. I shall never
forget her words, 'But there is
help for you!'"
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Joseph,
Businessman and
Statesman
"The story of Joseph is full of
encouragement to all who are
tempted to believe that their own
individual surroundings are
especially hard and
unfavorable."
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Flu
Healed
"One night I awakened with
intense suffering. I worked, as
Christian Science teaches us, for
myself until morning; while I
grew no worse, I felt no better.
About eight o'clock I called my
father to help me; and for two
hours or more it was a fight for
life."
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Ways
that are
Vain
"Unless
one's eyes are opened to the
modes of mental malpractice,
working so subtly that we mistake
its suggestions for the impulses
of our own thought, the victim
will allow himself to drift in
the wrong direction without
knowing it. Be ever on guard
against this
enemy."
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Blood
Poisoning
Healed
"About three years ago I had
blood poisoning in the middle
finger of my right hand; but,
while the appearance of it became
very alarming, I was able,
through the knowledge I had
gained of Truth, to be on duty at
my place of business every day,
suffering very little pain and
inconvenience."
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The
"little book
open"
"Now is salvation come, honor,
glory; / The 'little book open,'
/ Truth nevermore concealed
— / God and man to mankind
revealed!"
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"A
complete
healing"
"Many years ago, three members of
our family developed tuberculosis
in varying forms."
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Questions
and
Answers
"How can I believe that there
is no such thing as matter, when
I weigh over two hundred pounds
and carry about this weight
daily?"
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To-day
"This
is God's day
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the
day that He hath made. / We will
be glad, and will rejoice in
it."
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Grateful
for
Healings
"I am very grateful for all the
healings which I have
experienced. Most of all, I am
grateful for the spiritual
understanding I get through the
study of Christian
Science."
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Quick
Healing
"My friend coming to my room
found me in tears and asked the
reason; and on being informed of
the serious condition I felt I
was in, kindly sent for her next
door neighbor, who was a
Christian Scientist, knowing I
had just begun looking into the
subject."
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Abscess
Healed
"When a child of two years old I
had a disease which left me with
an abscess in one of my ears,
from which I suffered for more
than thirty years; then it was
healed through Christian
Science."
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Transformed
"Before Christian Science found
me I was unhappy and miserable.
My trouble was not so much
physical as mental, although
heart disease had been growing
worse for several years, and I
felt my end drawing nearer from
day to day. Then something
wonderful occurred."
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Demonstration
"The distinct separation of
Spirit and matter is a vital
point in this teaching, one which
it urges
uncompromisingly."
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Animosity
Healed
"As I was rereading the New
Testament, I came across this
beautiful verse in Matthew, 'For
if ye forgive men their
trespasses, your heavenly Father
will also forgive you,' and I
thought with gratitude what the
practice of that verse had meant
to me."
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"Rejoice!"
"To one student of Christian
Science the word rejoice has
taken on a wonderful meaning
since an experience of a year ago
last winter which led her to see
the importance of rejoicing under
every circumstance."
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"Great
spiritual
help"
"There had never been a moment in
my experience in which such
wonderful and happy changes had
taken place as when I received my
first treatment in Christian
Science."
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Divine
Presence
Realized
"For many years I seldom knew a
day without pain. Loving friends,
physicians, and a famous surgeon,
all tried to correct the many
diseases that claimed me as a
victim. All attempts
failed."
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God's
Man is
Free
"That all have the right to be
free is clearly elucidated in the
teachings of Christian
Science."
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Awakening
"His effectual awakening of
Lazarus from the dream of death
constitutes one of the most
significant incidents of the life
of the Master. By his works he
proved beyond peradventure of
doubt that Life is not dependent
upon matter, but is rather wholly
independent of it — that
Life is
self-existent."
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Rolling
Away the
Stone
"Over and over again Mrs. Eddy
shows us that Jesus always turned
from the testimony of the
material senses to the evidence
of Spirit, Soul, in order to find
that which is true. And it was
this which enabled him to prove
the allness of Spirit, Life, and
the nothingness of matter,
death."
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Gunshot
Wound
Healed
"During the summer of 1917 I was
taking a pistol apart, when it
discharged and the bullet entered
my right hand at the base of the
middle finger, passing entirely
through."
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Digestive
Disorder
Healed
"In 1911, after I had been ill
for months, unable to eat, or to
retain even a drink of water, or
to help myself in any way, two
physicians declared my case
hopeless unless I consented to an
operation."
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Signs
of the
Times
"'Give me understanding,' was the
cry of the Psalmist, so 'that I
may learn thy commandments.' Are
there not amongst these
commandments the commandments of
forbearance one to the other, of
exercising Christian charity in
thought as well as in
deed?"
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Reply
to a
Critic
". . . 'Jesus came into Galilee,
preaching the gospel of the
kingdom of God, and saying, The
time is fulfilled, and the
kingdom of God is at hand: repent
ye, and believe the gospel.' This
gospel could not have contained
anything about the crucifixion,
the atonement, or the blood of
Jesus, for the crucifixion had
not taken place."
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The
Ethics of Christian
Science
"Perhaps there could be no more
glaring offense than that one to
whom the sacred office of
practitioner has been allotted,
should betray, by repeating to
another or others, the personal
affairs which have been confided
to him by patients coming to him
for help."
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"As
taught by Mary Baker
Eddy"
"Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, . .
. bequeathed and devised the bulk
and residue of her estate to The
Mother Church, The First Church
of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,
Massachusetts, in trust, to be
devoted and used by The Mother
Church for the purpose of more
effectually promoting and
extending the religion of
Christian Science as taught by
her."
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The
Test of
Progress
". . . The progress of each
succeeding age has been measured
by its understanding of this Love
and its demonstration of higher
ideals in human
living."
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Signs
of the
Times
"There are so many beautiful
things to be thought of that it
seems sacrilege to fill the mind
with idle and unprofitable
thoughts."
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Spider
Bite
Healed
"One night at a performance in
Mexico City I received an
exceptionally beautiful bouquet.
The next morning I manifested all
the symptoms of tarantula
poisoning."
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"The
temple gate of
conscience"
"Our Leader has a great deal to
say about conscience in her
various writings, and there is no
doubt but that it is a subject of
vital importance to all Christian
Scientists."
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The
Comforter
". . . Christian Science became
to us the Comforter, lifting us
above all sense of sorrow into
the realization of the
ever-presence of divine Love and
of our inseparability from Love
and from the real spiritual
man."
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A
True Estimate of Mrs.
Eddy
"The lecturer gave us a beautiful
account of Mrs. Eddy's lifework,
showed how she had founded the
Christian Science movement, and
spoke of the consecration and
devotion which had enabled her to
surmount all difficulty and
opposition."
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Being
Practical
"We can have no assurance of the
practicability of a thing until
it has been tested by ourselves
or someone in whom we have
confidence. Then we know that it
is practical."
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"The
action of
Truth"
"I am a witness of the healing
power of God through Christian
Science, even though at the time
I was in complete ignorance of
its teaching and its
methods."
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Christian
Healing
"To Christian Scientists there is
today no dearer ambition than so
to understand and demonstrate
their unity with the divine idea
that healing shall be again
accomplished both speedily and
completely."
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Injuries
Healed
"While at the seaside one August
my two children had a beautiful
healing from what seemed to human
sense a serious blow caused by a
lad who was repairing a boat
nearby where we were
sitting."
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Freedom
Demonstrated
"Many doctors examined me, and
did all they possibly could to
help me. They said that the optic
nerves and the auditory nerves
were entirely destroyed, and that
there was no hope of recovery of
sight and hearing under these
conditions."
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Christian
Science
Thanks
"New England's last Thanksgiving
Day of this century signifies to
the minds of men the Bible better
understood and Truth and Love
made more practical; the First
Commandment of the Decalogue more
imperative, and 'Love thy
neighbor as thyself' more
possible and
pleasurable."
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Gunshot
Wound
Healed
"On
August 30, 1923, while driving
with an acquaintance, I
accidentally discharged a
shotgun, seriously injuring my
wrist, removing the wrist knuckle
and the outside bone, and
fracturing an inner
bone."
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Protected
from a
Storm
"Sometime after midnight I was
awakened by the sound of howling
winds. I got up and saw that a
hurricane and a tidal wave seemed
imminent."
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"The
peace of
God"
"No matter what the
sense-testimony seemed to be we
denied it, knowing that where the
fury of mortal mind seemed to be
there was the peace of
God."
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Grateful
for
Blessings
"This revelation of Truth was
indeed wonderful to me, and it
broke the dream of the physical
senses. With this afflatus came
the realization that the real man
has never been born, and it is
impossible for him to
die."
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True
Sympathy
"He who is taught by Love divine
/ True sympathy to understand, /
Knows how to meet a brother's
need, / And lend to him a helping
hand, . . ."
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Repentance
". . . The questions have arisen:
Just what are my sins? How can I
be sorry? How can I
reform?"
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Is
There No Sacrificial
Atonement?
"The real atonement — so
infinitely beyond the heathen
conception that God requires
human blood to propitiate His
justice and bring His mercy
— needs to be
understood."
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Unity
with
God
"What joy we experience when we
have gained even a small
understanding of what it means to
'live, and move, and have our
being' in God!"
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Introduction
to a
Lecture
"Men and women are like windows,
through which spiritual light may
shine and thus be made
manifest."
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God's
Omnipresence
"When Moses felt afraid to
undertake the work God had given
him to do, because he recognized
his own inadequacy, he asked God
whom He would send with him to
help him. Then God said to him,
'My presence shall go with thee,
and I will give thee
rest.'"
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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,
/
Teach
me to
pray
/ understandingly!"
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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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