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Each month, choose one free article or podcast from the archives or a current issue. If you want to read or listen to additional content, you can subscribe to JSH-Online (subscription aid available) or try our free trial (no credit card required). You will always have full access to any content that is shared with you.
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Science which answers, so far as our human apprehension can go, the question of the ages and shows man his relation to God and the universe, is so vast a subject that different standpoints signify no more in the general understanding of it than views of the sun from different parts of the earth's surface to a comprehension of that luminary.
St Paul
tells us that "we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places;" in other words, against the works of the devil, the evil mind, "mortal mind" in its various phases or segregations, such as hypnotism, animal magnetism, malice, doubt, fear, discouragement, disease, and various other members of evil's brood.
The crest and crowning of all good,Life's final star is brotherhood:For it will bring again to earthHer long-lost poesy and mirth;Will send new light on every face,A kindly power upon the race,And till it come, we men are slaves,And travel downward to the dust of graves.
Christian Science recognizes the possibility of progression from the imperfect to perfect manhood, but sustains the proposition that man is perfect at the outset, and that what we have termed development is simply bringing into activity and manifestation the ideal manhood which is forever intact; attaining a complete and satisfactory state, according to the idea expressed by the psalmist; "I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
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an editorial in the Sentinel of July 20 we quoted a newspaper item in which it was alleged that a Christian Scientist in Chicago had been excused from jury duty upon his representation that it would be inconsistent with his religion for him to serve as a juror.
with contributions from A. V. Stewart, Emma A. Thompson, Matilda R. Hahn, Abigail D. Thompson, Josephine W. Kneeland, Margaret J. I. Niven, Lillette A. Hewitt, Addie Keith Merrill, Elizabeth P. Bradford, Louise W. Chapman, Will H. McLean, Alice S. Brown, Board of Trustees and Directors, Charlotte A. Wheaton, Emma A. Rixford, Allie J. Yetter, Julia K. Haines
The handsome new church edifice completed for First Church of Christ, Scientist, of this city, at a cost of five thousand dollars, was dedicated with simple yet impressive ceremony at Carolina Place, Seventeenth and Market Streets, Sunday morning and evening [July 28].
The semi-annual report of the Committee on Publication for the State of New Hampshire, contains some interesting information, and we quote from it as follows:—
In my youth I seldom prayed, except my childhood prayer at night, because I had heard so many of the best Christians I knew say, "The Lord helps those who help themselves," and I received the fixed opinion that it was never right to pray to God for anything until I had first done everything I could for myself.
The many positive proofs of the truth of Christian Science which my husband and I have had during a period of about four and a half years, make me feel it a joyful privilege to bear witness to its healing power.
Before I give the following testimony I want to express a few words of appreciation and thankfulness to our revered Leader for her wonderful gift to a sin-sick, heart-sick, body-sick world.
During many years of earnest seeking for spiritual enlightenment I went to many churches and wandered through the mazes of many beliefs, the last and most disastrous being "mental science," which proved a broken reed in time of trial and left me "without hope and without God in the world.
"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," containing many important changes and additions by the author.
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with contributions from A. V. Stewart, Emma A. Thompson, Matilda R. Hahn, Abigail D. Thompson, Josephine W. Kneeland, Margaret J. I. Niven, Lillette A. Hewitt, Addie Keith Merrill, Elizabeth P. Bradford, Louise W. Chapman, Will H. McLean, Alice S. Brown, Board of Trustees and Directors, Charlotte A. Wheaton, Emma A. Rixford, Allie J. Yetter, Julia K. Haines