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If Christian Science were what our critic claims it to be,...
Oconomowoc (Wis.) Enterprise
If Christian Science were what our critic claims it to be, there would be nothing left to consider, because there would be neither Christian Science nor Christian Scientists; but fortunately for all, the truth it teaches enables every one to prove each step of the way in individual consciousness. On this basis of proof it rests; and on this basis it has in half a century girdled the earth and given to multitudes health, happiness, and prosperity.
In giving to your readers some explanation as to "why he is not a Christian Scientist," there is every evidence that our critic is not acquainted with Christian Science teachings, and consequently subjects this religion to misrepresentation. There is not the slightest warrant for attempting to liken Christian Science to paganism. Nothing is in more marked contrast than are the teachings of the two. Christian Science is based upon the Scriptural teachings concerning the omnipotent, the All-in-all, or God. It accords with the Master's declaration that "God is a Spirit," and every statement contained in the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," is consistently deduced from this premise. Christian Science endorses the teaching that God is good, and that He made all that was made, "and, behold, it was very good."
I note that the most "vigorous protest" against this religion is made on the assumption that Mrs. Eddy directly contradicts the teachings of the Master. Then follow remarks tending to show that the line of demarcation between the human sense of death and man's individuality as spiritual and eternal has not been made. Christian Science does not deny that matter, sin, sickness, and death seem real to mortals. It makes that much needed distinction, however, between the illusiveness of the corporeal senses and the Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus."
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September 19, 1914 issue
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Effective Testimony
GEORGE H. MOORE
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God's Perfect Will
MARY HORNIBROOK CUMMINS
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Cheerfulness
CLAUDE L. DE LONG
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The Divine Sending
MARY JAMES ARNOLD
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"The finger of God"
ELSIE L. WIGHTMAN
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Eternal Justice
FRANCES A. HALDANE
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In a recent issue, under the heading of "The Healing of...
Frederick Dixon
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The report in the Star of a sermon delivered at Bethany Park,...
Clifford P. Smith
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When the critic of Canon McClure's recent book set out to...
M. I. Whitcroft
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My attention has been drawn to a paragraph in a recent...
Algernon Hervey Bathurst
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Mr.—believes, evidently on the authority of one...
John W. Doorly
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My Shepherd
SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD
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And Again Legislation
Archibald McLellan
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The Blight of Bias
John B. Willis
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Influence
Annie M. Knott
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Admission to Membership in The Mother Church
John V. Dittemore
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The Lectures
with contributions from Mr. Emmons, John H. Schaefer, John D. Works, Etta M. Ousley, S. W. Frierson
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About seven years ago I was ill with a very puzzling liver...
Erminie J. King with contributions from Florence J. King
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A few years ago, after the birth of a child, I became sick...
Sophie Eberbach
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Revenge and the desire to take another's life for a seeming...
William D. Stineman
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The all-power of God as taught in Christian Science came...
Caroline W. Moeser
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I owe Christian Science endless gratitude, greater than any...
Winifred I. Kent with contributions from Herbert Kent
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One Saturday in August, 1912, I was stricken with a...
Edwin W. Schurz
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Tryst
AMY RUTH WENZEL
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From Our Exchanges
with contributions from J. M. Lloyd Thomas