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CREATION AND REVELATION
Down through the ages of human history, the mind of mortals has held to finite conceptions of creation, and has lost in every process of reasoning based on such conclusions. The common sense of "creation" and "created" involves commencement, therefore the words imply limitation, finity—conditions which are opposed to God, infinite Spirit, to whom a thousand years are but as a day, who is "from everlasting to everlasting."
Creation, according to a common lexical definition, stands for "the act of God in bringing the world or universe into existence," and finite reasoning immediately deducts that there was a time when the universe did not exist. Mortals read the first chapter of Genesis, and material sense interprets the record of creation as applying to a solar and stellar universe, including our world and mankind, brought out of chaos, or nothing, by the divine fiat, and established in seven twenty-four-hour days on a material basis, governed by conflicting material laws. These estimates of God's accountability for a material creation have even attempted to include the destructive upheavals, storms, and abnormalities of human experience, on land and sea. It has been common to ascribe all this to God, notwithstanding the Scriptures repeatedly affirm that God's work is perfect, complete, and good.

October 5, 1912 issue
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BUILDING
WILLARD S. MATTOX.
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"IN HIS NAME"
ETTA M. GILBREATH.
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CREATION AND REVELATION
ERNEST C. MOSES.
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"THEY SHALL FEED AND LIE DOWN"
ELLEN B. SMITH.
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"IF WITH ALL YOUR HEART"
CLARE ARCHER.
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CASTING OUT FEAR
VERNE E. TAYLOR.
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DESIRE
LILLIE MARY CARTER.
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In his sermon on "Christianity and Modern Thought,"...
Frederick Dixon
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I have read in a recent issue an article in which Christian Science...
Algernon Hervey-Bathurst
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FOREST STILLNESS
ADA J. MILLER.
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"FEED MY SHEEP"
Archibald McLellan
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REMISSION
Annie M. Knott
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SERVICE AND AT-ONE-MENT
John B. Willis
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ADMISSION TO MEMBERSHIP IN THE MOTHER CHURCH
John V. Dittemore
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from W. N. Miller, W. T. Morse, E. E. Sutherland, Frank C. Barrett, A. J. Usher, H. H. McCartney, Blanche K. Corby, C. H. Foot
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I am impelled to write this testimony of my complete cure...
W. A. Merigold
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I have thought many times of sending a testimony to the...
Mary M. Heggblade
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For the encouragement of those whose healing is slow,...
Cora E. Barton
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Human language is inadequate to express one half of the...
Lily C. Brainard
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Through the wisdom of Mrs. Eddy, the students of...
Mary B. Whetstone
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I would be ungrateful indeed did I fail to mention some...
Willie Byron Gray
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LOVE'S HOUR
MINNA MATHISON.
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
with contributions from R. J. Campbell, Charles Stelzle