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THE UNITY OF SCIENCE
As one advances in the thought of Christian Science, he becomes more and more impressed with a sense of enveloping, inclusive oneness, inexpressibly satisfying to human aspiration. The one demand we intuitively make on the truth is harmony. Any new proposition, before it may take a place in the sacred halls of demonstrated truth, must abide comparison with every other truth of the household. A tittle of disagreement disbars it. Disharmony is a stranger in the entire domain of Truth.
This intuitive demand for unity is common to the farmer aspiring to perfect his herds in conformity to a certain ideal, as well as to the realm of philosophic investigation which would discover the universal cosmic law and unfold the riddle of the ages. The pathos of the situation is felt when we consider the earnest men and women whose ceaseless labors in the fields of "natural" science have failed to place them in touch with the great life of humanity waiting without, imploring, patient, hoping against hope in the newest revelations of microscope, "culture," and scalpel. Sage and scientist, agreeing on the supreme importance of discovering this universal law of life, have pursued the elusive forms of matter from atom to ion and to filmy force, until the "baseless fabric" of this vision threatens to vanish and "leave not a rack behind."
To the Christian Scientist this concept of oneness, which has so cruelly coquetted with human longing despite the love-knots of centuries, comes quickly; and the Christ says, "My reward is with me." Says Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health (p. 467), "The first demand of this Science is, 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me;'" and the Christian Scientist takes this as the lineal, literal, and blood-descended Word of God, traceable in the trial and triumph of every righteous man and woman from Genesis to his Leader. In the light which she has radiated he sees that this God is Spirit, Mind, freed of every animal taint. He has grasped the infinite thought, and the only condition of his advance to infinite possibilities is fidelity to his promise. Nothing but wrong motives on his own part can thwart him.
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October 3, 1908 issue
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A THOUGHT OR TWO CONCERNING OUR THINKING
HON. CLARENCE A. BUSKIRK.
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WHAT IS TRUTH?
REV. W. H. DODD.
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THOUGHTS FROM A DISTANT FIELD
HUGH MORETON FREWEN
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LOVE THE LIBERATOR
JOHN E. FELLERS.
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THE UNITY OF SCIENCE
FRANK P. EBERMAN
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THE UNREALITY OF MATERIAL SENSE
L. L. KIMBALL
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RIGHT THINKING
J. J. MASTERSON.
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from E. F. Barker, John Stager
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Our critic closes his last letter with the famous warning...
Frederick Dixon
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In the magazine articles used by the recent "lecturer,"...
Mrs. S. Isabel Ward
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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NO MODIFICATIONS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Archibald McLellan
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MAKING WAY DESPITE DIFFICULTIES
John B. Willis
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ENDURANCE
Annie M. Knott
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LETTERS TO OUR LEADER
with contributions from C. F. C. Lonberg, W. J. Edwards, W. A. Newman, Evelyn Louise Hughes, Katherine Bruner, Wesley H. Rowe, Hattie Andrews, Mary E. Cheatham, Ora M. Smith, Aurelia C. Cole, Grace Kiefer, J. Newton Conger, Grace Ensminger
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AMONG THE CHURCHES
with contributions from Charles D. Benjamin
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Love and gratitude have much to tell, but are often...
Anna E. Baker
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Our dear Leader has said, "Who hath not learned that...
August Kranert with contributions from R. M. Parks
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It is impossible for me to express in words my gratitude...
H. C. de Wolfe
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I offer my testimony in thankfulness to God for His...
Minnie Lods with contributions from Susie A. Norton
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With a heart full of gratitude I wish to acknowledge...
A. F. St. Clair
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I feel it to be high time that I told others of the blessings...
Ida M. Sperling
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Christian Science found me without God, and the Bible...
Frances Willard Munds
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It is now eight years since I became interested in Christian Science...
Elizabeth Garrity
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THE REAL WORLD
MAXWELL ARMFIELD
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
with contributions from Charles Johnston, Llewellyn Brown