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The Right Concept
Principle is variously defined as "That from which anything proceeds: a source or origin. An original cause: an operative cause: a fundamental truth or tenet: a comprehensive law or doctrine from which others are derived, or on which others are founded." (American Encyclopedic Dictionary.)
Mrs. Eddy, in Science and Health (p. 465), gives a clear, comprehensive definition of Principle, a definition which bases all her deductions as to being and its laws. From this we learn that Principle and all its manifestations are of necessity harmonious. It is surely reasonable to believe that God, infinite Principle, expresses the law of His own perfect nature in all His work, and that His work must therefore he infinitely good, as declared in the Bible, "And God saw even thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."
Remembering that infinite perfection and omniscience must express the law of His being, we are compelled to acknowledge that man must be perfect and good because made in His image and likeness and continually upheld and sustained by changeless Principle, and that the Principle, origin, and operative cause of man and the universe must remain perfect throughout eternity, though the misconception thereof has darkened all human history. This misconception has been set aside only a few times, as with Moses, Elijah, the prophets, in varying clearness, up to Jesus' perfect comprehension, and the present scientific understanding of the truth about God and man, discovered by Mrs. Eddy.
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October 7, 1905 issue
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The Burning Bush
SUE H. MIMS.
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The Right Concept
GENEVA MARY CLIPPINGER.
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Freely Give
M. G. KAINS.
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Love's Gifts
ALMEDA N. TRACY.
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Peace
JENNIE WALBRIDGE BRIGGS.
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The Song of a Bird
BERTHA JENNINGS AMES.
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A Sure Defence
ELIZABETH KATZ.
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"Tempted in all points"
Arthur T. Pierson
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Errors in Translation
P. J. McCourt
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To dispute Christian Science because it pleads the unreality...
Albert E. Miller
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Christian Science is not "practised in defiance of the laws...
John L. Rendall
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Perhaps the strongest proof we can offer that Christian Science...
Arthur E. Jennings
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The Lectures
with contributions from J. W. Cook, C. G. Seelye, Charles Hunter Miller
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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"Thou shalt have no other gods before me"
Archibald McLellan
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The Right to Life
John B. Willis
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"Waste Places"
Annie M. Knott
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Letters to our Leader
with contributions from V. Edna Henson, Lewis B. Coates, Thomas Wilson Postell, Roberta V. Sanner
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About three years ago I became interested in Christian Science,...
Virginia A. Dyer
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Six years ago Christian Science came to me in an hour...
Sarah B. Strassburger
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Many years ago, before Christian Science was practised...
Blanche S. Shannon
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Although the blessings which Christian Science brings to...
Winifred Lee Wendell with contributions from Gertrude Howell
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Some time ago I had retired for the night when I was...
Sarah T. Wilson
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Having a desire to do as I wish to be done by, I send this...
Elizabeth McKinzy
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I came into a knowledge of Christian Science at the...
Nellie L. Johnson
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Several months ago, while living in Arizona, I had a...
Margaret A. Corser
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I should like to tell some of the things that Christian Science...
Fannie E. Willett
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I came to Christian Science because I was hungering and...
J. Luella Vinson
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I had always been a delicate woman, and finally arrived...
Sylvester Smith
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Be Not Afraid
LAURA DUNBAR.
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From our Exchanges
with contributions from Lyman Abbott, W. H. P. Faunce
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Notices
with contributions from Stephen A. Chase