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One of those great periods of emancipation is upon us now, a great uprising of the religious instincts of men in defiance of the prescribed forms of thought and means of culture. That which is called so fluently the irreligion and impiety of to-day, is a tremendous revival of religion in its dominant and eternal form, the outcry of men for God with no hindering agencies or conditions to get between. The crisis demands first of all to be recognized, and then we must adapt our whole religious machinery to these new conditions. To stand in the tracks of good men gone before, and by iteration of the old formulas try to curb and convert this new giant to our old ways, is a folly of which a man convicts himself by preaching so as to divide men rather than to unite them. The man who in his religious teaching seeks to separate himself and his following from the uprising of the whole people in a new impulse of worship, a new desire to know God, and to be on good terms with Him, is a type of selfishness and bigotry that has been condemned a hundred times in the last seven centuries of the Christian civilization.
The Christian Work and Evangelist.
Service is the measure of greatness. He is the greatest who does the most good. There are two methods by which good may be promulgated. There is the forcible method, but in that men spend so much time in trying to coerce each other that they have little time left in which to do good. The second method is to overcome evil with good. No power can compare in this world with the power of a good life. It is a slow process,—yes, but so sure. You can calculate the influence of a body upon another body, of mind upon mind, but not the influence of one human heart upon another. I thank God for the democracy of the heart, for it is upon the subject of the heart that we all meet.
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September 23, 1905 issue
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The Study of Christian Science
PROF. JOEL RUFUS MOSLEY.
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In the Garden
ROBERT L. ZILLER.
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A Reminiscence
F. M.
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Jesus found it difficult to make his teachings understood,...
Chas. D. Reynolds
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The Lectures
with contributions from Charles McIntyre , T. L. Roberts
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Among the Churches
with contributions from Mae Blanchard, Sybil Biship, Thomas Carlyle
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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Watching versus Watching Out
MARY BAKER G. EDDY.
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A Question
Mary Baker Eddy
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Healed by Christian Science
Archibald Mclellan
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The Power of Prayer
Annie M. Knott
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The Right Man
John B. Willis
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Letters to our Leader
with contributions from John H. Worthen, Mary W. Weldon, Benj. H. Norton
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One evening, wishing to reach a small package on a...
Sarah Hutchison
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Some seem to come into Christian Science naturally, and...
J. Jerome Hayes
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I wish to acknowledge God's goodness to me
Helen J. Kelsey with contributions from Ada Flint
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I write to tell of the overcoming of physical ailments...
Mary E. Burdick
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About six and a half years ago, I was healed of chronic...
Alfred Guenther
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I feel impelled to write and let others know what the...
C. E. A. McCoy
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It is over four years since I became interested in Christian Science,...
Jessie B. Carrigan
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It is now about five years since Christian Science entered...
F. M. Partridge
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After fifty-five years of suffering, which a devoted mother,...
C. E. Cushman McCarthy
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I will try to tell how good God has been to me
Margaret C. Bollin
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From our Exchanges
with contributions from William J. Bryan
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Notices
with contributions from Stephen A. Chase