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The principal value of the Christian revelation is this,—that it really does put us in touch with what is beyond and above all sense-experience, all change and decay, all darkness and evil. It can and does unite us to the eternal now; in a manner of speaking it puts us in possession of that which will survive when this world and everything in it have vanished like clouds and shadows before the light of the morning. By its ability to do this the gospel of Jesus stands or falls. If people only understood better what it is and what it promises, they could not possibly view it with indifference. Christianity is not primarily a set of rules for good behavior; it is not a code of conduct; it is not merely good advice as to how to live.
We cannot put this too strongly, for it comes home to us with overwhelming force as we view it in relation to human nature. It is an offer of deliverance from the dominion of a lie, the lie of sin; it is the infusion of a new principle into our hearts in response to faith; it is the letting through of the love of God and the joy of heaven into our earthbound souls, the shattering of the dominion of a delusion, the delusion of materiality; it is a perpetual miracle, the miracle of the impartation of God's own life to the believer through Jesus Christ our Lord. Mysterious as this sounds, it is the simple and literal truth; this is the secret of the vitality of the gospel in the world today as in every other day. Those who live by it come into possession ever more and more fully of something that is not of this world, a divine essence, a spiritual good, an unspeakable gladness, which is part of the real and indestructible eternal substance from which all goodness flows.
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April 15, 1916 issue
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Divine Will
WILLIAM D. MC CRACKAN, M.A.
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Angels
HENRIETTA MARCUS
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Abiding
MARIANNE IHDE WENDT
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Neutrality
THOMAS C. PERINE
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Sunday School for Children
MANA WILLIS FISHER
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Wages
JANE C. ELSTON
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Truth-healing
LILY M. SMITH
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Love Casting Out Fear
MARY GERTRUDE BERGHELL
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In an account of a sermon appears the following statement:...
Henry Van Arsdale
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The teachings of Christian Science are open and accessible...
Carl E. Herring
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In reporting a critic's attitude toward Christian Science...
John L. Rendall
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There is nothing whatever in the nature of pretense in...
Charles W. J. Tennant
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An evangelist undertakes, after a mere reading of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...
Robert S. Ross
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Christian Science is founded on the Bible, especially the...
Thomas F. Watson
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A Wall of Defense
Archibald McLellan
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Rebuilding the Temple
John B. Willis
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Endurance
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 S. W. Condon, C. F. Armstrong, Joseph R. Curl
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In loving gratitude to God, also to our revered Leader, Mrs. Eddy,...
Winifred W. Gatling
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I did not take up the study of Christian Science for...
Everett Carmany Howard
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When I first heard of Christian Science it was after years...
Ada Harden with contributions from Arthur Reed Adams
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When I had been out of school about a year I became very...
Florence Stratton Weaver
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It would take a long time to tell of all...
George E. Nightingale
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For many years I was a great sufferer from stomach...
Frederick Lovis
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I was brought up in the Jewish faith, and during my early...
Henry Morris with contributions from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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