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A letter from a critic, in which she states a few of the...
Trowbridge (England) Advertiser
A letter from a critic, in which she states a few of the reasons why she does not consider Christian Science to be the true theology of Jesus, shows that she has completely misunderstood the teachings of Christian Science.
In order to understand what Mrs. Eddy means by the unreality of sin, disease, and death, it is necessary to observe that it is from the standpoint of the absolute that she is speaking. It will be acknowledged by all Christians that sin, disease, and death do not proceed from God, who is the only creator. They will agree with Habakkuk that God is "of purer eyes than to behold evil." They will therefore have to concede that there can be no absolute reality or being in anything of which God is not conscious. We are told that our Master came to destroy the works of the devil. Sin, disease, and death were the conditions he destroyed. Again, our Master has defined the devil as a murderer from the beginning, which "abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." From the relative standpoint, which is the point of view of the human or carnal mind, of course sin, disease, and death seem real. They are temporal phenomena which can never have any connection with the eternal reality of true being.
With regard to God being personal, Mrs. Eddy writes on page 116 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "If the term personality, as applied to God, means infinite personality, then God is infinite Person,—in the sense of infinite personality, but not in the lower sense."
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December 23, 1916 issue
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Jesus' Practical Example
STOKES ANTHONY BENNETT
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Spiritual Law and Growth
THURLENE I. WADSWORTH
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Sublimity of Truth
CHARLES A. DANFORTH
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What Is a Christian Scientist?
W. W. GRISWOLD
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Problems Big and Little
CAROLINE LAURA HESSE
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Make-believe
EMILY A. ASHCROFT
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"Life's burdens light"
AGNES FLORIDA CHALMERS
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Many of your readers have been listening to the futile...
Thorwald Siegfried
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A letter from a critic, in which she states a few of the...
Charles W. J. Tennant
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Our critic, after accepting without reservation all that a...
John D. Sherwood
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It seems difficult to comprehend how a Christian minister...
Henry A. Teasdel
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His Friend
SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD
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The True Christmas
Archibald McLellan
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Mother and Child
William D. McCrackan
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True Observance
Annie M. Knott
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An Announcement
Editor
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The Lectures
with contributions from Merle J. Rogers, Arthur W. Marriott, Warren C. Klein, Z. R. Moorman's
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I feel it both a duty and a privilege to add my testimony...
Marie H. Frohman
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Seven years ago Christian Science found me on crutches...
Henry S. Williams
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With the earnest desire to help others who may be unable...
Edward H. Roos
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Christian Science was first presented to me over three...
Amella Butcher with contributions from Ada P. Hoadley
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My thankfulness goes out to God, the giver of all good....
May Philson with contributions from Marguerite Goodsell
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Eleven years ago I was a physical wreck
John M. Walshe
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For over nine years Christian Science has been my only...
Harriet M. Fechner
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For the many blessings that have come to me through...
Corine Nye with contributions from Clinton Burgess
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From Our Exchanges
with contributions from Charles Gore, J. D. Jones