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"WHY ART THOU CAST DOWN?"
The psalmist's query, "Why art thou cast down, O my soul?" is of deep significance to students of Christian Science, especially when they ponder their Leader's words respecting the same. She quotes from the forty-second psalm, in which these words occur, first the mournful question, then the response of spiritual sense, which says, "Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God." Then she adds these words from another psalm: "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases," and asks, "This being the case, what need have we of drugs, hygiene, and medical therapeutics, if these are not man's preservers?" (Christian Science versus Pantheism, p. 4).
The psalms give a wonderful model for prayer, for while the downcast human sense pours forth its plaint, spiritual sense declares for the permanence and power of divine law, and in this we find a picture of all human experience, its manifold sorrows and sufferings, with the light of spiritual being but faintly discerned. At the same time we see throughout the entire Scriptures, as in present-day experience, how efficacious is even a gleam of spiritual understanding, for this light, leading ever to its divine source, becomes brighter and brighter, the hope in God's power to restore health becoming in due season the realization of Truth's majesty expressed in the words, "Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies."

May 3, 1913 issue
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CHARITY
FREDERICK DIXON.
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APPLIED TRUTH
MABEL ALBERTA SPICER.
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LIFE UNDERSTOOD
JOHN M. DEAN.
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OPPORTUNITY
CHARLOTTE PAULSEN.
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SUPERSTITION DISPELLED
LEWIS HENRY BEESLEY.
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SILENCE
DAISY WOODWARD.
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That the founders of the American republic reached the...
George Shaw Cook
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Will you kindly permit me to take exception to a reference...
Albert E. Miller
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It is not often that a little band of Christians is so...
Charles K. Skinner
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It is common practise among self-appointed critics to...
H. Cornell Wilson
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OPPORTUNITY
ROY FOSTER.
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OUR TEXT-BOOKS
Archibald McLellan
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"WHY ART THOU CAST DOWN?"
Annie M. Knott
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COMING TO OUR OWN
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 Harry A. Bardeen, Dr. Tanner, Katherine D. Coles, E. E. Carter, Albert J. Roe
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Christian Science has redeemed my life from destruction
Rose Grunewald
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About four years ago I was healed of a very serious...
Huldah L. E. Elliott with contributions from George M. Elliott
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Most gratefully do I attest the healing and transforming...
Clifford S. McIntyre
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I wish to express my sincere gratitude for a few of the...
Anna S. Weidler
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I would put on the garments of praise as I give thanks...
W. R. Colby, Jr.
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I am more grateful than words can express for the knowledge...
Francese C. Lyon
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Four years ago I began to study Christian Science, but...
Priscilla Thomson
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For four years I was a sufferer from gout, for which I...
Hulda Frickart
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
with contributions from William Lawrence, Frank C. Bruner, Canon Bannister, W. B. Selbie