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A Progressive Step
Our Leader was for many years deeply impressed with the thought that the Christian Science movement should have places where people suffering from ills of various sorts could retire for treatment, rest, and recuperation. The members of Mrs. Eddy's household who ministered to her needs have heard her many times express herself quite freely on this subject. She knew that patients under Christian Science treatment were at times placed in a position where they needed the care and attention of a skilfully trained person who was also a Christian Scientist. Her own experience had shown her the great need for a place of refuge to which sufferers could retire, and where they would receive proper care and attention as well as freedom from criticism while under Christian Science treatment. The purpose which the Directors of The Mother Church seek to accomplish in organizing the Christian Science Benevolent Association is one that is in direct obedience to our Leader's wishes and which had for a long time been uppermost in her thought.
The Christian Science movement has barely passed its infancy, and is only now branching out to fulfil some of the requirements that naturally fall upon it as a large and successful Christian organization and one from which so much is expected. First came the demonstration of the Principle of Christian Science in the overcoming of sickness and sin. Then came the formation of churches and the erection of church edifices, both of which have been done to an extent that has awakened the thought of the world to the importance of Christian Science as a religious movement. After this must come the establishing of what we might call hospitals or sanitariums, and the training of people to act as attendants in the sick room.

December 16, 1916 issue
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A Progressive Step
ADAM H. DICKEY
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Wilderness Experiences
ROBERT RAMSEY, M.B.
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Progress Toward Perfection
OLIVE ALLISON
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"Could ye not watch with me one hour?"
IDA R. SIMONEAU
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"Now is the accepted time"
TIMOTHY L. ROBERTS
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"Love's recompense"
MAY BARRIS
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Sunlight of Mind
IDA MAE HAWKS
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Our critic admitted that Christian Science had a grain of...
Hector Wallace Smith
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It is a sad commentary on the progress of avowed Christian...
Thorwald Siegfried
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A recent article quotes from a clergyman to the effect that...
Henry Van Arsdale
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Christian Scientists believe in the only true and living...
Lloyd B. Coate
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Christ Jesus said, "I am not come to destroy, but to...
H. S. Hughes, Jr.,
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Not Decadence, but Progress
Archibald McLellan
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"We shall all be changed"
Annie M. Knott
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Overlooking Is Not Overcoming
William D. McCrackan
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The Lectures
with contributions from Ernest F. Clymer, James Randall Dunn, Henry C. Allen, R. H. Ewing, Harry N. Baum, Thorwald Siegfried, A. E. Mabie, Richard P. Verrall
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Many times I have picked up the Sentinel or the Journal...
Willetta McPherson
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I began the study of Christian Science in 1905 entirely...
Elizabeth Peacock
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Christian Science help came to me in dire need
Evelyn M. Denison
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Before coming into Christian Science I was very unhappy...
Emma Ringel Klaus
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When I became interested in Christian Science about seven...
Elizabeth Slyer
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Christian Science is the greatest blessing that has come...
Henrietta W. Sawyer
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Deep gratitude impels me to testify to the great blessings...
Lucia Bronson with contributions from W. H. Bronson
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From Our Exchanges
with contributions from J. D. Jones, Samuel Zane Batten, W. E. Bowen, Thomas French, Jr.