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Worcester (Mass.) Post
I was much interested in the letter from a contributor to the Post, who did not sign his name, in which he said it was strange that a congregation of intelligent people should be willing to listen to a Sunday service on the subject "Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?" Of course your contributor referred to Christian Scientists; for Christian Science is the religion which has raised this question. Semiannually this question is the subject of a Lesson-Sermon in our church services.
It would have been sensible, I believe, for this correspondent to have attended the service when he read that this question would be the subject thereof. If he had done this, he might have concluded that the question is not so strange as is the fact that humanity has not until recently considered it a question. The strange thing is, that mankind has been content to regard as natural that which is utterly contrary to the nature of God, the only creator. Mrs. Eddy has said, "Nature and God are one and the natural order of heaven comes down to earth" (Science and Health, p. 118).
After all that can be said has been said, the answer to the question "Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?" must be tested by human experience. Superficially considered, this experience would seem to furnish only an affirmative answer, but the practice of Christian Science by the continual prolongation and enlargement of human life has proved and is proving the contrary. If your contributor and other readers wish to know the Principle of these effects and the basis from which Christian Science declares that sin, disease, and death are not real, this information can be obtained by attending the services of any Christian Science church, or by reading in any public library the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
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December 1, 1917 issue
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The Christian Science Monitor
ARTHUR F. FOSBERY
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Power of Right Thinking
ALFRED F. GOODMAN
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Mind's Ideas Omnipresent
AMY C. FARISS
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A Love Offering
ISRAEL PICKENS
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"No night there"
MABEL CONE BUSHNELL
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"There is a God in Israel"
MARY E. TRUITT
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Awaken!
CHARLES C. SANDELIN
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The Citizen reports a sermon delivered at the Summer...
Robert S. Ross
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The beautiful stanza which "J. D." quotes from Gray's...
Duncan Sinclair
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The statement is made in an article in your issue of...
Rose A. Lilly
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I was much interested in the letter from a contributor to...
Judge Clifford P. Smith
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An Available Chaplain
William P. McKenzie
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Cleanliness and Godliness
Annie M. Knott
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"Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?"
William D. McCrackan
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The Lectures
with contributions from Clyde Morsey, Oscar F. Greiner, William E. Morgan, Hartley E. Jackson
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Through Christian Science I was instantaneously healed of...
E. A. Bates with contributions from S. G. Hutchison
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In gratitude for all that Christian Science has brought to...
Annie E. Standeven
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My heart overflows with gratitude for my knowledge of...
Bertha Brewer
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Seven years ago Christian Science was brought to my...
Florence E. Daugherty
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In every way I have felt the harmony which even a...
Carrie-Belle Jones
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Three years ago, while working as telegraph operator, I...
W. A. Lewis with contributions from W. A. Lewis
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Christian Science came to me when all else had failed
Irene A. Hall Williams
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In October, 1910, when we decided to try Christian Science...
Efner Strong McCready
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I have long felt that a public expression of thanks for...
M. W. Sawtelle
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I am thankful for many manifestations of the ever presence...
Teresa H. Briscoe
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It is with a heart overflowing with thankfulness to God...
Constance R. Halford
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Notices
with contributions from The Christian Science Publishing Society