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"LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD."
The gain attending the spiritual interpretation which Christian Science brings to the Scripture is never more apparent than when one comes to the study of the epigrammatic sayings of Christ Jesus, and a good illustrative instance is found in his seemingly severe rebuke to one who had craved the privilege of delaying his spiritual activity until he had buried his father. In the light of Christian Science it is seen that his words do not condemn any worthy human affection or impulse, but that they rebuke one of the most subtle and enslaving forms of self-mesmerism.
The number of those who are subject to periods of depression, as the result of some fruitless regret or self-condemnation, the reliving of some unhappy experience, the nursing of some sadness or sorrow, is very great, and it includes many professed Christians who apart from this mania would be cheery, wholesome, and helpful people. They are not content to abide in the living present, but are ever allying themselves with some dead issue or event over whose unburied unreality they insistently sigh.
Christian Science teaches that all life is of God, the undying, and that so-called dead things never had a real life to lose, and when this is apprehended we perceive that our persistent mental pilgrimages to a mesmeric necropolis of our own making, are not authorized by either sense or sentiment; that they are utterly foolish and worse, since they make real to mortal sense that which is not, and has no right to be—no, not even to be buried. Christian Science further teaches us to leave dead issues alone, and that emphatically and all the time, since there is no congruity between life and death and hence they should be given no companionship in our thought. All this the earnest student soon learns, or ought to, and in so far as he clings to or coddles the remembrances of materiality's defeats, the failure of its promised satisfactions, the blight of its assured joys, the unnumbered dooms and disasters with which it intensifies human fear, in so far he himself is not alive, and the call of God to him, then and there, is, "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee life." Dwell not for one moment on the discomfiting memories of material belief, but turn to Truth, to the things that live and that cannot die.
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January 15, 1910 issue
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OUR NEWSPAPER
IDA G. STEWART.
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THROUGH CONFLICT TO VICTORY
M. G. KAINS, M.S.
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HOW GOD SPEAKS TO MEN
E. D. DALE.
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THE SABBATH DAY
HELEN L. YOUNG.
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GRATITUDE
GRACE FULLER FITZGERALD.
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There are in the New Testament three Greek words...
Frederick Dixon
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Our critic seems to be inclined to find fault with me...
John E. G. Sandford
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To the Christian Scientist animal magnetism means...
John L. Rendall
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The teachings of Christian Science do not warrant the...
Olcott Haskell
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The appreciation of Mrs. Eddy's unquestionable and...
R. Stanhope Easterday
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In a recent issue your book reviewer makes the statement...
Elizabeth Tavel Bell
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DOMINION
AGNES FLORIDA CHALMERS.
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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DEMOCRACY IN CHURCH GOVERNMENT
Adam H. Dickey
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THE LECTURES
Archibald McLellan
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"HERE A LITTLE, AND THERE A LITTLE."
Annie M. Knott
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"LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD."
John B. Willis
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LETTERS TO OUR LEADER
with contributions from Charles H. Gibbs, Alexandrina C. G. Gibbs, Martha H. Gish, William C. Off, Annah T. Norton, Minnie S. Avery, P. McKenzie, David B. Ogden
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from Davenport Bromfield, Jos. A. Langfitt, Franz Kubel, R. A. Pearson, James Kirk
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O trustless heart, that finds...
Fannie G. Hopkins
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That organic disease is being met and destroyed by...
William D. Campbell
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I feel it my duty to acknowledge what Christian Science...
Stella Bixby with contributions from K. A. Uehling
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It is with a grateful heart that I give this testimony of...
Charlotte Landon with contributions from Lena Waters
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It is now nine years since I first became interested in...
Birdie Lee with contributions from Cora A. Bartholomew
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I would like to express my gratitude to God for the...
James Jaynes with contributions from Nellie Chatfield
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Christian Science has done so much for me and mine,...
Luttie W. Prutsman
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I came to Christian Science in February, 1906, a physical...
Robt. G. Smith
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In June, 1905, my health began to fail, I was greatly...
Fletcher Massee
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Divine Love has healed me of many physical ailments,...
M. Klepfer with contributions from Anon