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The contemplation of death and its seeming inevitability...
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The contemplation of death and its seeming inevitability need not make us utterly despondent. Mankind in all ages have been face to face with the impossible, and have triumphed over it. In myriads of cases we enjoy to-day the victories of science which at one time were considered mere chimeras and declared absolutely impossible of attainment. Man is continually triumphing in the material sphere; he is proving himself master of the multitudinous manifestations of force, and science teaches that all things are the result of force. The earth is a mass of manifested forces. In his study of material things and their origins, he is continually coming face to face with the spiritual forces that lie behind them and give them birth and substance. As he faces and studies these forces that lie back of all things which are or seem to be, is it not reasonable to believe that he will bring these causes, as he is slowly harnessing their results, within the grasp of his comprehension and dominion? The conquest of the spiritual lies through the overcoming of the material.
Men have ever dreamed of the possibility of the conquest of death. Every great mind has dreamed of it, has looked for the day when men shall die no more. When men attack death on the spiritual plane as persistently and sincerely as they now study life on the material plane, the conquest of death will follow as a natural sequence; it will be the final victory proving man's divine origin. And are we not overcoming some of the causes of death, and bridging imperceptibly the gulf that lies between us and the power that lies dormant in every one of us? Was the great Nazarene an idle dreamer, a teacher of fantastic but beautiful impossibilites, as Renan would have us sorrowfully believe, when he declared with all the divine vehemence within him that men would not die who believed in him? The Church throws the proof of his teaching into the future world, after death. Does not this make his statement thus: that if men die, they shall not die? Is not the essence of his teaching that men, some day, in some age of spiritual advancement and transcendental enlightenment, according to laws but dimly perceived as yet, such as we poor mortals scarce can dream of, shall have eternal life without passing through the grim portals of the kingdom of the arch-enemy, death? If men are gradually overcoming the causes of death, and thereby are lengthening the span of life to some mortals, it is within the bounds of possibility that in time even death itself may be overcome and life eternally lengthened for all.

October 17, 1908 issue
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WORKING OUT ONE'S SALVATION
PROF. JOEL RUFUS MOSLEY.
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SCIENTIFIC CHRISTIANITY
C. A. QUINCY NORTON
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REGRET OVERCOME
ADA J. MILLER
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OUR LESSON-SERMONS
FRANK B. HOMANS
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SUPPLY THROUGH RIGHT THINKING
GENEVA MARY CLIPPINGER
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CONSECRATION
L. T. EADY
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THE RIVER OF TEARS
EVELYN GAGE KNIFFIN
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Whatever may be said of Christian Science, for or...
Marion Howard Brazier
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I wish to protest against the bad habit to which the press...
Frederick Dixon
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The history of the Christian Science movement and of...
Luther P. Cudworth
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Christian Science, as the name implies, is a system of...
A. W. Mainland
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When Christ Jesus healed one who was blind and dumb,...
Frank W. Gale
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
ARCHIBALD MCLELLAN
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WHICH IS THE REAL?
ANNIE M. KNOTT
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THE DISPLAY OF DISEASE
JOHN B. WILLIS
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LECTURE IN THE MOTHER CHURCH
Editor
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LETTERS TO OUR LEADER
with contributions from THE USHERS OF THE MOTHER CHURCH, MARY B. G. EDDY, Lillian Cole, Albert L. McBride, Grace R. Knapp, Marguerita W. Smith, J. E. McDonald, Effa L. Murphey, William M. Goodwin
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from Fraser Metzger, Emma Hahn, Professor Lautner, Charles H. Welsh
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OMNIPRESENCE
JOHN M. DEAN
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I should like to testify to the healing of two little girls...
Ruth Smith Williams
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I was first attracted to Christian Science about two...
W. G. Stephens
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I had suffered for years with an affliction in the form of...
Cora Margaret Rossbach
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I have long felt a desire to express my gratitude for...
Elizabeth Russell
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I want to tell of some of the healing that has been done...
Seldon E. Richardson
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Fifteen years ago the world looked very dark to...
Christine Hansen
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Four years ago I was sick and very unhappy
Neil Warner
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It is with a heart full of gratitude that I tell what Christian Science...
Isola J. Macdougall
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Words fail me when I try to tell what Christian Science...
Mattie Schnessler
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It is with a very thankful heart that I give this testimony...
Rhoda M. Johnson
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
with contributions from P. Gavan Duffy, Edward B. Pollard