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EXPANSIVE EDUCATION
Mary Baker Eddy's deep respect for enlightened learning is noted in her statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 195): "Academics of the right sort are requisite. Observation, invention, study, and original thought are expansive and should promote the growth of mortal mind out of itself, out of all that is mortal."
Mrs. Eddy knew and loved the cultural world in which she lived. The current series in the Sentinel, entitled "Mrs. Eddy Mentioned Them," draws our attention to the wide range of her reading. Her grasp on many subjects was the admiration of her teachers and is the wonder of many thoughtful scholars today.
At no point in her writings does Mrs. Eddy give the impression that a proper human education is to be neglected. What our Leader evidently longed for was a purification of educational systems so that Christliness would be considered superior to the merely intellectual achievement, morals to brilliance, and the knowledge of Truth, in the healing of human ills, to medical limitations.
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May 3, 1958 issue
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PROVING GROUNDS
PAUL R. CARMACK
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HIGH FIDELITY
AGNES WARD DOLAN
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"GOD RESTS IN ACTION"
CHARLES PORTER LOWES
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ONENESS GIVES DIVINE AUTHORITY
BETTY E. THOMPSON
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HEARING THE WORD AND DOING IT
JAMES K. WESTOVER
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THE MINUTIAE OF OUR DAILY AFFAIRS
HELEN H. HIXON
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GRACIOUSNESS
GENEVIEVE THOMAS BURRISS
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ARE WE DOING OUR PART?
Harold Molter
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EXPANSIVE EDUCATION
Helen Wood Bauman
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I should like to give this testimony...
Chloe Rogers Cobb
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Let the redeemed of the Lord...
James Walsh
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The experience that I shall relate...
Josephine Brunaud
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It is with sincere gratitude to...
Irene Lucille Harris
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About 1908 I was asked to try...
Mamie Terry Hanna
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For all that Christian Science...
Ernest Allen Morgan
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Christian Science has touched...
Winnifred Langbridge
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I was introduced to Christian Science...
Audrey K. Redding
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God is our help in every need
Anne Parsons
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Eugene Carr, Joseph Moffet