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"A thousand years"
Throughout the Scriptures the phrase "a thousand years" is many times used symbolically, sometimes to contrast the mortal sense of time with the spiritual idea of eternity. Thus does the psalmist say of the Almighty, "A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past;" then, after some mournful reflections upon the briefness and uncertainty of mortal experience, he prays, "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom."
Those who study physiology in the effort to become better acquainted with man, soon learn that a thousand years of mortal history has made practically no change in the corporeal structure of the race; indeed what change there is, indicates decadence rather than development. It is admitted by students of biology that the eye and ear of the civilized man are inferior to those of the savage, to say nothing of the physical body in other respects, and that on the animal plane men have less endurance, strength, and agility than many four-footed creatures. From the view-point of materiality we may well ask with Mrs. Eddy, "Of what avail is it to investigate what is miscalled material life, which ends, even as it begins, in nameless nothingness?" (Science and Health, p. 550.)

May 22, 1915 issue
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Disease Not Real
SAMUEL GREENWOOD
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Thought Gardens
Ruth Ingraham
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"Skyward flight"
CAROLINE SHREWSBURY
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"I AM"
JULIA WARNER MICHAEL
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"To whom shall we go?"
CARL E. HERRING
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Sincerity
HERBERT ARTHUR HUTCHINSON
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Our Church Singing
KATE J. BRAINARD
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Angel Reapers
ROBERT E. KEY
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Duncan Sinclair
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Ezra W. Palmer
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Gratitude
LOUISE ELIZABETH LITZSINGER
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Uncompromised Truth
Archibald McLellan
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"A thousand years"
Annie M. Knott
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Love's Protest
John B. Willis
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"Well done"
William P. McKenzie
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The Lectures
with contributions from Charles E. von Heitman, Samuel Russell, Jr., Edmund F. Burton, Warren C. Klein, C. M. Morse
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For more than thirty years I have been in the practice of...
Louis S. Keller
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Christian Science has done so much for me that I wish to...
Lulu Matzenbach
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I would add my testimony of gratitude for the blessings...
Friedrich Christiansen
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In Hebrews we read much about the word faith, but until I...
Phebe E. Hunter
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For many years I was a miserably unhappy man, owing...
Matthew Nelson
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Guidance
EDITH L. PERKINS
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From Our Exchanges
with contributions from A. T. Bannister