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In essaying a reply to your anonymous correspondent,...
Indianapolis (Ind.) Star
In essaying a reply to your anonymous correspondent, writing in response to my former letter, I am almost loath to burden your readers with tedious repetitions, but I feel that as long as they can stand tedious criticism they can stand courteous rejoinder. Truth, moreover, is really more interesting than meaningless fiction to a well cultivated mind.
Our critic hurls an indelicate challenge at Christian Scientists, attempting at the same time to dodge behind the superficial surmise "If marriage is unnecessary" and to buttress the stand with a juggled reference to page 31 of Science and Health; but it is unnecessary for us to take up the gauntlet in our vindication, because we have already safeguarded this avenue of approach in our former letter by citing Mrs. Eddy's reasonable vindication of marriage at the present juncture and for possible centuries to come. On page 31 of Science and Health, cited by our critic, she far from intimates "a human father to be unnecessary,". but reasonably quotes our Master's own wholesome mandate: "Call no man your father upon earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven." If our critic questions this citation from Science and Health, he questions not Mrs. Eddy, but Jesus Christ.
Very far, also, from intimating on pages 56 and 57 of the above cited Science and Health, that "there should be a discontinuance of the marriage relation," Mrs. Eddy unequivocally declares in this very connection: "Until the spiritual creation is discerned intact, is apprehended and understood, and His kingdom is come as in the vision of the Apocalypse—where the corporeal sense of creation was cast out, and its spiritual sense was revealed from heaven—marriage will continue, subject to such moral regulations as will secure increasing virtue."
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October 29, 1910 issue
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DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT
JUDGE CLIFFORD P. SMITH.
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TRUE DEMOCRACY
DAISY BEDFORD.
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INDIVIDUAL WORK
ANNE MAY LILLY.
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THE UNRULY TONGUE
JOSEPH B. BAKER.
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STORM AND CALM
EDITH DOYLE.
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OUR RIGHT PLACE
GENEVA MARY CLIPPINGER.
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What is bounty but love in the giver,...
Theron Brown
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In every branch church of Christian Science throughout...
Miss E. M. Ramsay
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Whether it is wise for jurymen to indulge in newspaper...
Frederick Dixon
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An editorial which appeared in a recent issue of the...
Frank C. Barrett
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There are "several reasons" why Christian Science is...
John L. Rendall
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A clergyman, whose sermon was reported in your columns,...
James D. Sherwood
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There is no element of suggestion or human mind force...
Edward W. Dickey
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The text-book of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...
W. C. Williams
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In essaying a reply to your anonymous correspondent,...
R. Stanhope Easterday
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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"UNIFIES MEN AND NATIONS."
Archibald McLellan
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THE BAPTISM OF FIRE
Annie M. Knott
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THE WINDS OF GOD
John B. Willis
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AMONG THE CHURCHES
with contributions from E. A. Crane
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from Stephen G. Porter, F. W. Simmons, J. L. Wallace, George S. Atwood, W. R. Geddes
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Three and a half years ago I sought a Christian Science...
Eva Comstock Shelly
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I have long felt it my duty to tell of the benefits I have...
Carrie L. Banta
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Sixteen years ago I was stricken down with a terrible...
John L. Russell with contributions from Sophie Marie Greub
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Gratitude compels me to testify to what Christian Science...
Joseph R. Curl
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A few months after my arrival in America, fourteen years...
Eugenie Rivollier
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I wish to express my thankfulness for the healing of our...
Mattie Ermin Garrard
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I wish to express my gratitude for the benefits received...
Minnie J. Waycott with contributions from Wilhelmine Hoefling, Sophie Koenig
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The screen of the stereopticon is the world about us
Katharine W. Frost
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
with contributions from James E. C. Sawyer