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THE APPEARING OF MAN
Israel's Messianic hope was the greatest, the richest, the most inspiring anticipation of human history. It embraced and expressed the consummation of the noblest longings of all mankind. The nations of the distant East, whose wise men with uplifted gaze found and followed the Bethlehem star, the nations of the distant West, whose expectation of the coming of a wondrous "Fair God" made them the more accessible to the daring and cruel adventurers who effected their enslavement. — to all these had come, with greater or less clearness, the vision of a saving hero, a princely man; and for the reason that the possibility of this man is the silent but impelling companion of every uplooking child of humanity.
By the many this hero was thought of as simply a divinely appointed leader, who was to retrieve the nation fortunes and destroy the nation's foes, but in the thought of Israel's greater prophets his character and mission had reached a splendor of exaltation which renders their forestatements respecting him the marvel of literature. Nevertheless, the richest meaning, the true spiritual significance of this great expectation, was conveyed to the world only through the teaching of him who fulfilled for all time the personal sense of the Messianic coming.
In the light of the Master's healing words and works, the sweep and compass of the appearing of the true man is revealed. It is an appearing which is identical with the triumph of the gospel, which measures the completeness of humanity's redemption, and which rebukes all the dogmas that have dwarfed and degraded the concept of Christ's presence and reign by failing to identify it with the spiritual triumphs of the present life and of each and every individual.
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March 21, 1908 issue
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ERROR AND SIN OVERCOME
PROF. J. R. MOSLEY.
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"NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS"
LAURA LATHROP.
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MATERIAL SYMBOLS
FRANK H. SPRAGUE.
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THE TRUE SALESMAN
CARL H. PIERCE.
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Christian Scientists are learning not to attempt to judge...
J. V. Dittemore
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Unkind and unsubstantiated reflections upon Christian Science...
R. Stanhope Easterday
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Having read the sermon recently printed in your...
Alice S. Brown
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It is not recorded that Christ Jesus, the master Christian,...
George Shaw Cook
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Your interesting article on Japan in the issue of Jan....
Albert E. Miller
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From its own standpoint, what does Christian Science...
Charles K. Skinner
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AMONG THE CHURCHES
with contributions from William W. Porter
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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OUR LEADER'S REQUEST
Archibald McLellan
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THE APPEARING OF MAN
John B. Willis
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THE HEALING OF CHILDREN
Annie M. Knott
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LETTERS TO OUR LEADER
with contributions from Elizabeth A. Bacon, Lillian Gertrude Whittemore, Nilo J. Hickey, Effie Andrews, Aimee E. Lundgren, Klara Billberg, Harrison D. Folinsbee, Mary Stewart, Emma A. Thompson
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from William S. H. Robinson, Sam Scott, P. J. Hamilton, Judge Barber
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We feel it not only a duty but a blessed privilege to...
Myrtle Springer, R. H. Springer
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I owe endless gratitude to God for Christian Science....
Else Neukranz
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When reading the testimonies of others we begin to...
A. L. Hilbert
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The great revelation of the Christ cure came to me in an...
Dollie Price Rich
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I have thought many times that I should like to add...
Margaret Gander
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It is with a feeling of gratitude and love to God that I...
Anna E. Naumann
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For a long time I have wished to add my testimony to...
Janet W. Hall
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I have had so many proofs of the healing power of...
Flora Christian
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It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I offer this...
Nellie A. Carson
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MORNING HYMN
MARY A. AYERS.
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
with contributions from Wingate Snell, William R. Richards