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In an article on "Nature Around Huddersfield," the writer...
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In an article on "Nature Around Huddersfield," the writer states, "I went to the Christian Scientists, from whose teachings, let me say, I have derived great benefit; but when I found in Mrs. Eddy's text-book that the study of minerals, stars, and so on, is of no real importance, that brought my inquiries in that direction to an abrupt end."
I am quite sure your correspondent would be the first one to admit the necessity for accuracy in quoting extracts from other authors, and will therefore permit me to give the exact quotation to which he refers, which is as follows: "The compounded minerals or aggregated substances composing the earth, the relations which constituent masses hold to each other, the magnitudes, distances, and revolutions of the celestial bodies, are of no real importance, when we remember that they all must give place to the spiritual fact by the translation of man and the universe back into Spirit. In proportion as this is done, man and the universe will be found harmonious and eternal" (Science and Health, p. 209).
To the student of physical science it is of "real importance" to study these questions, but to the student of metaphysics it is necessary to look at the things that are not seen through the physical senses. It would seem a pity to bring to an abrupt end the study of anything which had proved a "great benefit," simply on account of a misunderstood paragraph.
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January 8, 1916 issue
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Healing by Spiritual Law
ROBERT NALL
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Reflection
LOUISE KNIGHT WHEATLEY
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Both Great and Small
JULIA WARNER MICHAEL
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Truth Ever Present
J. ALLEN BARRIS
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"Shut thy door"
EMMELINE HASKELL
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Communion
ELISHA B. SEELEY
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Clinging to Principle
LUCY E. DOE
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In an article on "Nature Around Huddersfield," the writer...
Fred R. Rhodes
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In answer to a correspondent I would like to say that...
Samuel Greenwood
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In reply to the statement of a physician, permit me to...
Robert S. Ross
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The citations of Scripture given by a critic to repudiate...
Willis D. McKinstry
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Christian Science teaches how to destroy sin and disease,...
Thomas E. Boland
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The comparison, by our critic, of Christian Science with...
W. D. Kilpatrick
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Take Notice
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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Cooperation and Efficiency
Archibald McLellan
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Exaltation
Annie M. Knott
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Advancing Beliefs
John B. Willis
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The Lectures
with contributions from E. B. Saunders, J. Burrows, William C. Orton, William H. Lowe, S. S. McCurdy
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In November, 1908, a Christian Scientist and her husband...
John J. Edington
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For fifteen years I suffered from severe bilious headaches,...
Charlotte M. Gary
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Before coming into Christian Science I was unhappy, discontented,...
Nelle Martz Sharples
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Christian Science has revealed to me a God of love, unchanging...
Hannah M. Hagman
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I am indeed grateful for the opportunity to tell of the...
Friederike Suhl with contributions from Alice M. Kelly
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I came to Christian Science for physical healing for my...
Evalyn H. Marcotte
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For three years I was an invalid, and for fifteen months...
Celista C. Dodds
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Christian Science has done a great deal for me
G. W. Kreasan with contributions from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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From Our Exchanges
with contributions from John Whitehead, Charles F. Dole