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No Contagion in Evil
On page 226 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says, "I saw before me the sick, wearing out years of servitude to an unreal master in the belief that the body governed them, rather than Mind." When we who have been healed in this wonderful truth, and who have gained a faint understanding of the unreality of that one-time master, the error which held us in bondage, look about us and see our brothers still in that sad but needless condition, how we long to save them from the misery which all false belief entails.
Of all the taxes which the children of men today contribute to the support of that cruel taskmaster, the belief of life and intelligence in matter, none is more pathetic, more needless, more exacting, than submission to the asserted law of contagion. The writer remembers that years ago she visited a lady who refused to eat strawberries because of a belief that they caused hives. She had never heard of such a thing and asked her hostess to describe the condition. The description was obligingly given, and until the writer became a student of Christian Science and learned the falsity of all such beliefs, the eating of this fruit was always followed by the appearance of the unpleasant eruption which had been described.
Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 376), "Because the so-called material body is a mental concept and governed by mortal mind, it manifests only what that so-called mind expresses." Nothing can be manifested on the body which is not first accepted mentally. If one takes cold while sitting in a draft, it is because it is believed that this could give one a cold. If he manifests this ailment, he has merely brought a belief into visibility. When he learns in Christian Science that God is divine Principle and that he need not suffer for anything but his own sins, and that this suffering should cease when the sin ceases, he need no longer have colds from drafts or from any other material circumstance.
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February 10, 1917 issue
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Friends of Jesus
CLARENCE W. CHADWICK
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No Contagion in Evil
GERTRUDE SUTTON
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Testimony Giving
COL. FREDERICK H. MATURIN
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Figuring It Out
MARY P. BELLINGER
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The Refining Fire
W. K. PRIMROSE
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Building a Church
WARWICK A. TYLER
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Great Discoveries
MARY R. CHAMPLIN
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Certain statements concerning Mrs. Eddy, published under...
Hector Wallace Smith
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A communication raises the primary question as to whether...
Carl E. Herring
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To most people a fair way by which to judge any system...
Thomas F. Watson
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"Suffer it to be so now"
Archibald McLellan
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The Freedom of the Sea
William D. McCrackan
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Giving and Receiving
Annie M. Knott
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Admission to Membership in The Mother Church
John V. Dittemore
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The Lectures
with contributions from Paul A. Tulleys, Ralph H. Watts, Clarence Layton, Hiram E. Tuttle, Frank O. Smith, Warren C. Klein
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While it has not been long since my wife and I began the...
W. S. Firguson
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It is with a heart full of gratitude for the benefits received...
Orie V. Thompson
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I am unspeakably grateful for Christian Science
Margaret W. Dunk
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I often felt the need of a better understanding of the Bible...
Alice L. Merrill
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Nine years ago I began the study of Christian Science,...
Sallie B. Tannahill
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Quite recently, when error presented itself to me in the very...
Georga L. Slupe
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Nearly four years ago Christian Science found me in such...
Gunhild Hullstrom
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In September, 1914, while working on a barn, I was injured...
Charles L. Giles
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In the summer of 1914 my little boy, then three years old,...
Grace Platt Berry
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Christian Science has indeed been to me the "pearl of...
Florence A. Hoyt
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Truth's Gloria
KATE MILLS FARGO
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From Our Exchanges
with contributions from D. L. Ritchie, Joseph Fort Newton