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"Thou art the man"
To all who have accepted Science and Health as the "Key to the Scriptures" and pledged themselves to be loyal followers of the truth therein unveiled, the demand, "Physician, heal thyself," becomes a moral obligation. From the standpoint of mere belief the saving of a brother was considered a holier—if somewhat easier—task than one's own redemption. Precept often took precedence of practice, and religion became, often quite unconsciously, a cloak worn chiefly on Sundays with one's best clothes and largely apart from the counting-house, the factory, or the daily drudgery. Consequently, when that disturbing inward monitor rapped occasionally at our mental door, it was quieted by reference to an erring brother; a telling indictment from an "eloquent discourse" would be unctuously applied to brother So-and-so, and mentally bottled and labeled for his redemption at the earliest opportunity.
That to purify our own thought is the surest way to help our brother was not recognized, so intent is mortal mind upon exposing the mote in another's eye, seen—as we soon learn in Christian Science—through a vision blurred by the beam in our own. It is significant that the "mote" is a mere speck, the "beam" a sizeable bit of wood, so ready is the carnal mind, blind to its own larger delinquency, to exaggerate another's weakness. That persistent "Thou art the man" is so comfortably silenced by a righteous concern on our part regarding a brother, while possibly some good sister is with similar urbanity allotting that same human frailty to us.

January 27, 1917 issue
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Praising God
ERNEST C. MOSES
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Rising Above Popular Opinion
LUCY HAYS REYNOLDS
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"Thou art the man"
CAROLINE A. BALY
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Mortal Dream
MAUD MACRAE
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Ability versus Distrust
PEARLE M. WARREN
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Straight Lines and Plumb Lines
EDWARD A. STRONG
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Literature Distribution
C. A. CARR
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The author of an article relating to Christian Science,...
Judge Clifford P. Smith
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No one who has ever studied Mrs. Eddy's works could...
Henry Deutsch
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"Fear made manifest"
Archibald McLellan
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Guidance
Annie M. Knott
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The Lamb and the Wolf
William D. McCrackan
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The Lectures
with contributions from F. Lovell Lee, John M. Tutt, Vernon J. Lilly, Harold L. Ireland, Dean Collie
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Several years ago Christian Science was presented to me...
Mattie Beckenbach
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This testimony is given with a heart full of gratitude and...
Auguste Pfaender
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The Scriptural passage, "God is light, and in him is no...
Robert L. Sawyer
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Until a few years ago I was afflicted with a chronic bowel...
Flora Stewart McGraw
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Recently I was asked by a friend to give an instance of...
Annice Campbell
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The healing of a poisoned finger through the realization...
Darwin H. Goldsmith
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I am deeply grateful to be able to testify herewith to the...
Margarete Paetz
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Rest
EDITH L. PERKINS