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"From death unto life"
No phase of Jesus' teaching was more emphatic than the need to love God and one's fellow-men. The two commandments which he declared to be the greatest of all proclaimed this necessity in language so direct and withal, so forceful, as to be unmistakable. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind," leaves no doubt in the thought of the reader as to the Master's meaning. So to love God, good, as to exclude affection for all unlike Him was the standard he set for mortals! "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself" is equally direct and unequivocal. The obligation upon mortals to love God and one's fellow-men completely occupied Jesus' thought, and was so frequently upon his lips that its spirit pervades his entire teachings.
The disciples, too, profound students of their beloved Master, emphatically expressed the need always to manifest love toward all men under all circumstances, always and invariably. So impressed was John with this need that he wrote, "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren." Startling statement! We pass "from death unto life" because we love our fellow-men. Transcendent truth! Loving the brethren, then, is the great necessity, for thereby do we overcome as a necessary experience the belief termed death; and this victory is won in proportion as we gain that spiritual understanding of God and man wherein Life is revealed as perfect, eternal, changeless.
What the consequences are of failing to love the brethren, the apostle declares in the concluding sentence of the verse above quoted: "He that loveth not his brother abideth in death." Could words more definitely convey the serious results of failing to manifest love toward mankind? Failure to love our fellow-men even brings death. Under the searchlight of spiritual truth these passages take on a profound significance. The importance of their messages is laid bare, and the way is made plain in Christian Science whereby they may become practicable as the guide of daily life.
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October 25, 1924 issue
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Idealism Made Practical
ORLANDO J. MCCLURE
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God the Rewarder
ANNA E. HERZOG
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Working or Brooding, Which?
EDITH BAILEY
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The Grateful Heart
HELEN JOSEPHINE TRIPP
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"Teach us to pray"
CORA S. NILES
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"O king, live for ever"
WILLIAM HERBERT APPLETON
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Love
LATITIA CORNELL HERRLING
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My Prayer
EDITH M. SHANK
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Christian Science is not derived from psychology, nor...
Miss Kate E. Andreae, Committee on Publication for Sussex, England,
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A writer in a recent issue of your paper quotes from...
James M. Stevens, Committee on Publication for Minnesota,
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In a recent issue of your paper appears an account of the...
Arthur J. DeCamp, Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri,
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Christian Science, in harmony with the Scriptures,...
George A. Magney, Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,
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It is a well-known fact that Christian Science is a spiritual...
Charles W. Hale, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,
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Christian Science is the name given by Mary Baker Eddy,...
Douglas L. Edmonds, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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An evangelist in a public address recently said that Christian Science...
Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Pennsylvania,
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The writer of an article which appeared recently included...
William Capell, Committee on Publication for the State of Connecticut,
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No adherent of the Christian Science religion could consistently...
Charles E. Heitman, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
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"From death unto life"
Albert F. Gilmore
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"We cannot serve two masters"
Duncan Sinclair
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Impartial Love
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Willardie Blonquist Ketchum, William A. Morrison, Alma M. White, James Potter Brown, Olive G. Austin
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The heart alone can feel what I feebly attempt to write of,...
Edward T. Murphy
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When Christian Science found me a broken-hearted...
Luise Wilhelmine O'Connor
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I am very glad to tell what Christian Science has done...
Emilio Velasco
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In the infant steps in the journey Spiritward, the beginner...
Grace Jewell Eckles
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About eleven years ago we were home in England from...
Constance Mary Obbard
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I became interested in Christian Science about four...
Charles H. Bauer
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About ten years ago I became interested in Christian Science...
Lynda W. Sommer
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A Cup of Water
LILLIAN BARKER DURKEE
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from John A. Paterson, John Stephens