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The success of Christian Science in the healing of...
The success of Christian Science in the healing of physical disease seems, as our critic says, to be the feature which is very frequently emphasized in discussions of the subject, probably for the reason that this is the phase of Christian Science which at first most strongly appeals to the average investigator. However, while this successful healing of "all manner of disease" is matter of intense interest to those who have heretofore been engaged in a desperate and unsuccessful warfare with sickness, nevertheless it is a fact that one cannot be long acquainted with Christian Science without discovering that its chief work is that of moral regeneration. Indeed, one could not possibly be healed in Christian Science without becoming, in some degree at least, less sinful. In this connection it is interesting to note that the clergyman makes the mistake of supposing that Christian Science teaches that sin is "best conquered as it is ignored." No one who is correctly informed on this subject would suppose for one moment that Christian Scientists believe that they can get rid of sin by ignoring it or by simply calling it a delusion. Christian Science woos the sinner from his sin by convincing him that he need not fear sin and cannot love it because it is not of God. It shows him that God does not create sin, and that He does not permit its existence. It teaches him that sin and evil are entirely contrary to the will of God and that they have nothing to so with God's man. Thus it induces the sinner to abandon his belief in the reality, power, and pleasure of sin, and enables him to win forgiveness by forsaking sin. For this reason it will be seen that it is a mistake to suppose that in teaching the unreality of sin Christian Science encourages the indulgence of sin. On the contrary, it awakens the sinner to the absolute necessity of gaining a love for goodness that will enable him to abandon not only the flagrant forms of immorality and vice, but also the more subtle phases of evil.
[Bishop Palmerston Anderson as reported in the Chicago Tribune.]
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March 6, 1909 issue
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"THE POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE"
BLANCHE HERSEY HOGUE.
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PROTECTION AND JUSTICE
WM. S. GILBREATH.
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SONSHIP
VIOLET KER SEYMER.
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EMERGENCE
RUTH G. ROYAL.
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ANSWERED PRAYER
GRACE C. BOAKE.
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THE GRACE OF GOD
MARY JEAN MILLER.
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INCLUDES MRS. EDDY
H. D. E.
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Your report of a recent meeting states that one of the...
Albert E. Miller
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The success of Christian Science in the healing of...
George Shaw Cook
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from J. E. Williams, Owen N. Heaton, W. H. Fleming
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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"LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE"
Archibald McLellan
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A FAULTLESS COVENANT
Annie M. Knott
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THE RADIUS OF RIGHT THOUGHT
John B. Willis
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LETTERS TO OUR LEADER
W. S. Iliff with contributions from Algernon Hervey-Bathurst, Sue Mims, Cecelia E. Wright, Lex N. Mitchell, Cora E. Mehring, Hermann S. Hering, S. Jennie June, Sadie L. Earll, Sarah A. Davis, F. B. Wharton, Annie L. Geissler, Bessie B. Canniff
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AMONG THE CHURCHES
Horatio Stebbins with contributions from Browning
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I wish to add my testimony to the many given in the...
Lena Meyer with contributions from Lewis Meyer
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Christian Science came to me at a time when I was in...
Lena L. Davis
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I wish to acknowledge the great good which Christian Science...
Mary E. Murray with contributions from Mina C. Gibson
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I have felt for some time that I ought to give expression...
Angie G. Brown
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I can no longer refrain from expressing in some measure...
Cora A. Shafer
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When Christian Science was presented to me, about...
Mary B. Adams with contributions from Harry Cowell
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
with contributions from John Hunter, G. L. Clark