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"THOU SHALT NOT KILL."
The command, "Thou shalt not kill," is all-inclusive, unequivocal, and uncompromising. It accepts no excuse for companionship with or the indulgence of any thing or thought that leads to death. The promise is to those only who overcome sin, and who thus escape the disease and death to which it leads, through that heroic contention for righteousness which eliminates from consciousness all that ought to die or that can die.
Whether its end is achieved in a longer or shorter period, in a crisis of abnormity and despair, or in the unnumbered, seemingly normal moments of our consent to the belief that satisfaction attends the indulgence of material sense,—given its way, error always registers its unvarying effect in its own destruction, since it knows and can know no life, no truth.
In the light of Christian Science it is seen that this cycle of mortal belief must inevitably be endorsed and advanced by our every assent to the claim that there is life, substance, and intelligence apart from God. Belief in materiality, its power to give pleasure or pain, to dominate consciousness for good or ill,—this tips the beam in every fatality. Men look to mortal conditions as a life-goal, and whether their course be confined to the anticipated and familiar experiences of a life of sense gratification, or whether it chronicle the headlong extravagance of wilful impulse, in the end they are always deceived and defeated. Whatever the circumstance or condition, all have the same lessons to learn, namely, that the pleasures of sense cannot satisfy the heart; that every alliance with error is suicidal, and that the penalties which attend carnal belief are not escaped from by a mere change of our plane of consciousness. With the pen of a preacher and prophet Mrs. Eddy has written, "Existence continues to be a belief of corporeal sense until the Science of being is reached." "The so-called sinner is a suicide. Sin kills the sinner and will continue to kill him so long as he sins" (Science and Health, pp. 77, 203).
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May 8, 1909 issue
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THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
WILLIS F. GROSS
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THE TRUE IDEA OF HEALTH
ALICE M. SWARTHOUT
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THE TURN OF CAPTIVITY
MARY I. MESECHRE
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THE TESTIMONY MEETINGS
EDWARD W. DICKEY
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SHADOW VS. REALITY
MARY V. LITTLE
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"THE TRUE LIGHT NOW SHINETH."
ADIN E. BALLOU
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Our critic is mistaken in his statement that Christian Scientists...
James D. Sherwood
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It is not pleasant to think that one professing to be a...
Charles K. Skinner
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Christian Science teaches that pain is a mental effect, and...
Frederick Dixon
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A discovery cannot be considered apart from the discoverer,...
Algernon Hervey-Bathurst
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The suggestion conveyed is that Christian Scientists are...
Willard S. Mattox
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Christian Science is founded on the understanding of...
Olcott Haskell
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Mary Baker Eddy
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A CLEARER UNDERSTANDING
Editor
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CONSIDERATION FOR OTHERS
Archibald Mclellan
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THE HOLY CITY
Annie M. Knott
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"THOU SHALT NOT KILL."
John B. Willis
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LETTERS TO OUR LEADER
with contributions from Frances M. Nagel, Nettle S. Johnson, Blanche Fox, Erika Fredriksen, George E. Evelyn, Rose T. Neff, Fanny von Moltke, Laura D. Thorn, Mary A. Bally, Elizabeth Haskins, Charles Joseph Strobel, Mary L. Chewning, Elizabeth E. Vallance, Mary I. Appleton
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from W. B. Kilpatrick, George Leonard McNeil, Arthur K. Lord, Coles A. Raymond
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It is a number of years since I got my first news of...
E. Kyle Battley
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Over a year ago, while crossing a bad place in a country...
T. G. Williams
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I should like to tell how grateful I am to God, and to...
Catharine M. Noble
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It is with love and much gratitude to God, and to our...
Dollie B. Minckler
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I, too, wish to give thanks for all the blessings which...
Frau Frieda Freidank
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After reading other people's testimonies in the Sentinel,...
A. R. von Hartman
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I am indeed thankful for the many blessings which have...
Mary Virginia Gault
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I take this opportunity to express my gratitude for the...
George MacMeekin
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It is with deep gratitude to God, and to Mrs. Eddy, the...
Russell I. Rhodes
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I must return thanks to God, divine Love, for His great...
Donelson Caffery
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With a deep sense of joy and gratitude to the Cause of...
Frieda Engelke
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I am glad to have this opportunity to acknowledge the...
E. D. Chaurette
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It is now over four years since I turned to Christian Science...
Lottie M. Reynolds
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
with contributions from Robert Stuart MacArthur