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"RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT."
In our text-book we read that "to decide quickly as to the proper treatment of error—whether error is manifested in forms of sickness, sin, or death—is the first step toward destroying error" (Science and Health, p. 463). The study of Christian Science has a wonderful effect in quickening and clarifying the intellectual faculties, and enables us to decide rightly, if not at first "quickly," on every question which comes to us for judgment. In arriving at decisions we soon learn the absolute necessity for a spiritual basis of judgment, which of course involves the reversal of material evidence, whatever it be. If the question is one of sickness,—perchance hopeless illness from the material standpoint,—the Christian Scientist instinctively thinks upon the angel's words to Mary at the early dawn of Christianity, "With God nothing shall be impossible." Nor is the decision based upon these words an unverifiable statement ; on the contrary it is a happy coincidence of reason and revelation, for the Christian Scientist has learned that what is possible to God is possible to man as His image and likeness.
Christ Jesus had much to say respecting right judgment. Once he said, "Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me." No question can be rightly decided from the standpoint of the flesh, or matter, but we are never left alone, the Father is with us. When we see things from the spiritual standpoint, our judgment, like that of the Master, will be true, and we shall go on to prove the supremacy of good over evil, whatever be the phase of error which confronts us. To stand resolutely by the fact that God governs, and that evil has no authority to make one either sick or sinful, is a matter of tremendous importance to mankind. Sometimes this may be all that is required of us, but who can estimate the far-reaching effects of such a decision? To do less than this could never be right under any circumstances.

February 13, 1909 issue
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THE EXCUSE-MAKING HABIT
CLARENCE W. CHADWICK.
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"HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE?"
MARY E. BOVET.
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THE UNDIVIDED GARMENT
ALTA P. HOWELL.
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THE HOLY CITY
LUMAN A. FIELD.
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BREADTH
WILLIAM HART SPENCER.
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OVERFLOWING
JOHN F. FORTH.
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"LORD, I BELIEVE."
GERTRUDE RING HOMANS.
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A clergyman is credited with taking the following text...
Charles K. Skinner
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The critic declares that "the therapeutic benefits which...
Herbert M. Beck
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from A. J. Spengel, C. B. Ratzlaff, H. C. V. Peebles, John Greenleaf Whittier
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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"THE TONGUE OF THE CRAFTY."
Archibald McLellan
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DOING AND BEING
John B. Willis
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"RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT."
Annie M. Knott
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LETTERS TO OUR LEADER
with contributions from Frank W. Gale, Daisette D. S. McKenzie, Annie C. Bridgers, Bertha Traband Myers, Daniel M. Myers, Helen McCoy Fritton, William C. Off, Mary C. MacOwan, Jenny A. Pamperin, Annie May Bell
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AMONG THE CHURCHES
with contributions from M. A. Sontag
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THE NEW BIRTHDAY
MARY WHEELER.
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Of the many blessings which have come to me through...
Anna S. Roberts
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In May, 1904, I first turned to Christian Science
Eleanora Robb
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It is eighteen years since I first heard of Christian Science...
Joseph W. Thompson with contributions from S. A. Saunderson
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With a heart full of gratitude I should like to give a...
Liesel Hessler
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I wish to express my gratitude for the many blessings...
Annie Marshall
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One of the many beautiful proofs of Truth's omnipresence...
Jerita V. Blair
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It now seems hardly possible to me that one can read...
Charlotte Molthop Vierling
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It is with a thankful heart that I write this, hoping it...
Nannie J. Chesser
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For ten years prior to turning to Christian Science I...
Elizabeth B. Githens
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In February, 1907, I was attacked by a most unnatural...
Jennie W. Holroyd
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
with contributions from R. J. Campbell