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The address in which Christian Science was said to be a...
Springfield (Mass.) Republican
The address in which Christian Science was said to be a failure, reported by a correspondent, refuted itself. If Christian Science were a failure it would not arouse opposition; sectarian opposition is significant proof of its success. Moreover, the persons who have studied Christian Science and put it into daily practice are the persons who know whether it is a success or a failure. And these persons, with few or no exceptions, are satisfied with it. For one who has approached this teaching only as an opponent, to get up in a public place and call it a failure is fatuous.
In this instance the speaker added that Christian Science is based on Hinduism and that it makes God a mere abstraction. Every one who has read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, in an unbiased manner, knows that it is based on the Hebrew and Christian Scripture and that it is related, by history and content, only to Judaism and original Christianity. To Christian Scientists this religion does not teach that God is an abstraction. If it gives this impression to opponents, they would better study its teachings more intelligently. To Christian Scientists the terms which their religion uses to define God are concrete, vital, deific. Moreover, they are provable in daily experience.
Furthermore, Christian Science does not rely alone on words to define the nature of Deity. Thus in Mrs. Eddy's Message to The Mother Church for 1901, she said (p. 1): "As Christian Scientists you seek to define God to your own consciousness by feeling and applying the nature and practical possibilities of divine Love: to gain the absolute and supreme certainty that Christianity is now what Christ Jesus taught and demonstrated—health, holiness, immortality."
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November 4, 1916 issue
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Kindness
REV. JAMES J. ROME
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The True Metaphysical Student
MARTHA SUTTON-THOMPSON
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Our Daily Newspaper
BURTON H. WADE
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Overcoming Laziness
ISABEL HILLIER
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Seeking the Light
NELLIE GARDNER MASON
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Good Literature
JESSE L. SANDERS
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The address in which Christian Science was said to be a...
Judge Clifford P. Smith
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A correspondent says, "Christian Science is false to both...
Charles W. J. Tennant
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In an account of a lecture before the teachers' institute...
Henry Van Arsdale
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The report of an address by the dean of the school of...
William E. Krupp
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Neither the clergyman whose remarks were referred to in...
Robert S. Ross
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A clergyman in an address on "Spiritual Healing" took...
Thomas F. Watson
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Speaking Plainly
Archibald McLellan
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"What seest thou?"
Annie M. Knott
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Joyful Unfolding
William D. McCrackan
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Letters from the Soldiers
Editor
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The Lectures
with contributions from William R. Rathvon, Frances Mack Mann
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I must give my testimony on the side of Truth, as my...
Willis Gollmar
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It has been made plain to me that divine Love ever waits to...
Lizzie Wallis Warren with contributions from J. H. Harford
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The study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...
Millie Rutherford
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On account of a structural defect of the eyes, for which...
Albert Tinkcom
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With a heart full of gratitude I give this testimony
Minnie C. Alexander
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Recently I have had cause to rejoice anew for all the good...
Antoinette W. Girard
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I herewith offer this testimony for the encouragement of...
Franz Winkler with contributions from M. Winkler
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I became interested in Christian Science through learning...
Sidonie K. Marx
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From Our Exchanges
with contributions from Henry W. Frost