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Point of View
Individuals who are beginning the study of Christian Science not infrequently find difficulty in reconciling the presence of sin and evil in the world with the creation of a perfect man and a perfect universe by an infinitely good God, and they generally want to be informed as to where and how evil originated and how the originally perfect man fell from his state of created perfection. Coupled with this is the further question, If God is infinitely good, how could He, or why did He, create a man capable of sinning?
These questions are not particularly novel, for they are precisely those which confronted the early Christian church and resulted in the Gnostic controversy of the first three centuries. They are wholly due to an illogical point of view, to the putting of an effect before a cause, or to the supposition that because a thing seems to exist it must of necessity have had a cause. During all the ages humanity has pursued this course, and modern education seems to be largely predicated upon it, with the result that one of the chief difficulties with which Christian Science has to contend is the establishment of a correct view-point.

September 11, 1915 issue
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Confidence in Truth
SAMUEL GREENWOOD
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What Shall We Render?
EMMA C. MERRELL
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Point of View
CAMPBELL MAC CULLOCH
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Withholding Does Impoverish
ADA BRUEGGERHOFF
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Start Out
ANNE JONES GEARY
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Gratitude
MARY FLOWERS MARBLE
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Truth
ROBERT E. KEY
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A recent issue contained statements by an evangelist in...
Brigman C. Odom
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The man who desires to help his fallen fellow man to...
Robert S. Ross
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It is a pleasure to undertake to answer "Bible Student,"...
Carl E. Herring
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Spurious Literature
Archibald McLellan
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Discord and Harmony
John B. Willis
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The Light that Heals
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 Katherine Tuckerman, Alexander Calvert, Angus M. Miller, John T. Cowles, Milton B. Marks, Richard A. Lazier
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My first acquaintance with Christian Science was about...
Peter S. Johnston
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Some time ago I was seized with violent pain, and immediately...
Irmgard von Petersdorff
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I have been healed of many ills through Christian Science
Arthur E. Boyd with contributions from Jennie E. Biggin
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I wish to express deep gratitude for what Christian Science...
Gladys E. Slater
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For eight years the truth as taught in Christian Science...
Pearl I. Brierley
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I feel it a duty as well as a privilege to give my testimony...
Lizzie E. Miller
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Words fail me when I try to express gratitude for what...
Mattie B. Williams
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Sincere gratitude prompts me to testify to the blessings...
Louise Dazinger
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From Our Exchanges
with contributions from R. J. Campbell