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The command to heal the sick as well as to preach the...
Western Mercury
The command to heal the sick as well as to preach the gospel was given with the utmost distinctness by Christ Jesus, and is recorded directly in three of the Gospels, while in not one of these Gospels is there the slightest excuse for the attempt to confine the command to any particular time or persons.
Jesus said of the man sick of the palsy: "Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up, and walk?" Obviously a man only escapes the effects of sin and sickness in proportion as he expels from his own consciousness the belief in the power of evil, and so gains the Mind that was in Christ Jesus. "The way," writes Mrs. Eddy, on page 327 of Science and Health, "to escape the misery of sin is to cease sinning. There is no other way." This way will not, however, be made easier; it will, on the contrary, be made positively impossible if we start with the assumption that evil has power and is real. That only is real which is God-made. To dispute this is to impale yourself on one or the other horn of the dilemma that God created evil, or that there is another creator besides God.
All there is to say about evil was summed up by Christ Jesus when he described it as a lie, and the only power a lie can ever seem to possess is the temporary sense of power bestowed on it as long as the deception lasts. The human consciousness is trained and educated into a belief in evil, in sorrow and sickness and sin, and exactly in proportion as the truth dawns upon it that God, that good is infinite, the lie that evil is real or has power begins to fade away, and there comes the freedom from any belief in the power or reality of evil comprised in the declaration of Jesus that "the kingdom of God is within you."
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August 14, 1909 issue
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THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW
WILLIS F. GROSS
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"LOVE YOUR ENEMIES"
EMMELINE HASKELL
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THE DETECTION OF EVIL
WILLIAM W. PORTER
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"A DAY IN THY COURTS"
EMILY H. GARDNER
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"CONSIDER THE LILIES"
JESSE PICKARD
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"WHICH HAVE EARS, AND HEAR NOT"
DAISY BEDFORD
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APPRECIATION OF THE MONITOR
Emmeline Haskell
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The command to heal the sick as well as to preach the...
Frederick Dixon
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In referring to Christian Science as "Mrs. Eddy's doctrine...
Howard C. Van Meter
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Jesus said, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him...
Gray Montgomery
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Our critic says that the testimonials of physical healing...
J. V. Dittemore
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It is very true that to the human sense of things, sickness,...
John L. Rendall
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The measure of the fulfilment of Bible teachings, as manifested...
Royal D. Stearns
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No comparison of method or value is intended, and...
Herbert M. Beck
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A SONG OF PEACE
LUMAN A. FIELD
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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BOTH GOSPEL AND WORKS NEEDED
Archibald McLellan
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HEALTH LAWS
Annie M. Knott
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ABILITY AND AVAILABILITY
John B. Willis
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LETTERS TO OUR LEADER
with contributions from J. Newton Conger, Josephine Heermans, Marguerite Caldwell, The Board of Directors, Florence S. Tyler, Ella B. Rideing, Altha M. Smith, Laura Cooley Tucker, Ruth May Jennings, Agnes E. Grimes
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from W. A. Beatty, Alexander W. Chambliss, Jacob A. Henry, Henry Hansen, Kent Eldred
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I have long desired to give my testimony of blessings...
Emeretta S. Van Dine
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With a grateful heart I testify to the blessings which...
Emma Zschachlits
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I wish to express my appreciation of what has been given...
Miles A. Goodyear
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I wish to express my deep obligations to divine Truth and...
Mattie T. Sharp
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It is with a heart full of gratitude for what Christian Science...
Alice H. Ferguson
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Like so many others I have been delivered from the...
Agnes Mueller
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We came into Christian Science for the healing of our...
Mabel A. M. Stanley
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I first took up the study of Christian Science during the...
Sarah Jane Eatock
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I gratefully testify to the fact that I was healed about...
Annie M. Latimer
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It is with a heart overflowing with gratitude and love...
Mary Alice Trumbull
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
with contributions from Allan Hoben, H. Arnold Thomas, Frank L. Phalen