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The Mission of the Churches
MR. ARTHUR HENDERSON, M. P., of England, Chairman of the Representation Committee, has recently said: "The exclusive concern of the churches should not be with a future state of existence. Rather should they be concerned with this world. Their mission should be to bring to pass here a kingdom of righteousness and peace, and to carry redemption into our social relationships;" and in this, it seems to us, he expresses in a large degree the need of the hour. Jesus prayed, and taught his disciples to pray, "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven;" and he was much concerned with the eradication of both sin and sickness from the lives of those who came under the immediate influence of his ministry.
The churches, to be effective in their labors for the masses, must not neglect the example of our great Master in the healing of sickness and the establishment of righteousness on earth. They must be about their Father's business, just as Jesus was about his Father's business; and it is recorded of his earthly career that "he went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people." They must awake from the belief that this healing ministry is a closed chapter in the history of Christianity. Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has demonstrated that the healing of the sick as our Master healed them is not only a present possibility, but an accomplished fact, and this is amply proved by the testimony of thousands who have been healed. A typical testimony to this fact is that of Leonora Heale of North Yakima, Wash., which appeared in The Christian Science Journal for May. She writes as follows:—
"A little over one year ago my body was racked with aches and pains innumerable. I suffered from chronic tonsilities, hay fever, rheumatism, cancer, and nervous prostration. Two years before, my tonsils had been removed, but the sore throat was not healed. Six months before. I had an operation for piles, but the suffering still remained. Having been a trained nurse for many years, I knew what a season of drugging and doctoring awaited me, were I to begin medical treatment, and how little assurance of permanent healing there was for me, even then. Besides all this, there was a debt, a sick father, and much unfinished work which I had no strength to accomplish.
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May 26, 1906 issue
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Victorious Warfare
W. D. MC CRACKAN, M. A.
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The True Concept of Law
GENEVA MARY CLIPPINGER.
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The Condition of Having
EDITH AZALIA ADAMS.
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Another Minister Accepts Christian Science
LONGFELLOW
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Christian Science in Business
ALFRED FARLOW
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It may be said that Christian Scientists, in common with...
CALEB H. CUSHING
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The best definitions of the word "miracle" give it as...
JOHN L. RENDALL
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Christian Science treatment includes the understanding...
JAMES D. SHERWOOD
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"Father, I thank thee."
AGNES FLORIDA CHALMERS.
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The Lectures
with contributions from Leonard H. Field, W. B. Johnston, Arthur P. DeCamp
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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Inconsistency
Mary Baker G. Eddy with contributions from CLARA P. WALES
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An Amended By-law
Editor
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The Mission of the Churches
ARCHIBALD MCLELLAN
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Letters to our Leader
OLIVE E. PETTIT with contributions from ALICE MARTINEAU, C. F. ANDREWS, LIZZIE G. BONFILIO
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For twelve years I was a victim to the whiskey habit
CHARLES HENRY PEEBLES
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Having received so many blessings through reading the...
VINCENT W. BAKER
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A few weeks ago, while on my way to our Reading Room,...
LULU MORSE, CHARLES G. MIESS
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Last summer one of my boys cut his foot very severely on...
MARY L. MORRIS
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For many years before I knew anything of Christian Science...
L. A. SEARS, MAY R. LEE
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It is impossible for me to express in mere words my...
MARY B. VALE with contributions from A. W. BEACH
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Some years ago I was compelled to visit an eye specialist
ELIZABETH DUMBRILLE
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I did not come into Christian Science for physical healing
LEOLA A. GOODIN
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From our Exchanges
with contributions from F. W. WALKER PUGH, I. F. PORTER
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Notices
with contributions from Stephen A. Chase