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True Coin
Mrs. Eddy often reminds us that mortal concepts are at most but counterfeits of spiritual realities. On page 148 of Science and Health she says, "Anatomy and theology reject the divine Principle which produces harmonious man, and deal—the one wholly, the other primarily—with matter, calling that man which is not the counterpart, but the counterfeit, of God's man."
One day the attendant in our home handed me a coin and asked what was wrong with it, as it had not been accepted when tendered. Upon handling it, I knew intuitively that it was a counterfeit. Upon comparing it with a coin which I knew to be genuine, the difference in form, color, and design was not perceptible, but the more I compared the two the more apparent became the spuriousness of the one and the genuineness of the other. I told the attendant that her coin was a counterfeit, but upon comparing them she could not perceive the difference. I wondered at this, for by this time I could clearly distinguish between the good and the bad. It then came to me that she was a foreigner, a stranger in this country, and had not handled enough of our money to discriminate between the two. So is it with every one who does not understand the Science of real being and calls that man which is the very antipode of the man of God's creating. When, however, we become citizens of the kingdom of God, the realm of Spirit, then we are "no more strangers" but "of the household of God," and we learn to distinguish between Truth and error, between Spirit and so-called matter, between the real and the unreal.

April 3, 1915 issue
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"As one having authority"
JOHN SIDNEY BRAITHWAITE, M.A.
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Ministry of Patience
LOUISE KNIGHT WHEATLEY
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True Coin
ELINOR SPARGUR WEIL
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Tokens of Divine Love
LUMAN A. FIELD
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Peace
GERTRUDE RING HOMANS
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In an announcement of a lecture on Emanuel Swedenborg...
Charles E. Jarvis
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"No other gods"
Archibald McLellan
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Likeness and Revelation
John B. Willis
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Divine Science
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 Philip Marshall Brown, J. S. McCracken, H. E. Don Carlos, Frank H. Leonard, Rupert Eichholzer, S. C. Ford
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After enjoying for seven years the blessings which the...
Maud Gerald-Richardson
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For some time before I heard of Christian Science, I longed...
Martha L. Gannaway with contributions from J. T. Gannaway
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Six years ago I came to Christian Science for relief that I...
Augustin Morrell
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It is with a feeling of joy and gratitude that I offer my...
Stockford Wheaton
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I became interested in Christian Science a number of years...
Alice C. Taylor
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I have made many attempts to send an expression of...
Elizabeth M. Bell
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Those who do not understand that all disease or inharmony...
Theodore Seifert
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It is from a heart overflowing with gratitude that I send...
Andrew Thisted
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From Our Exchanges
with contributions from James E. C. Sawyer, R. J. Campbell