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The Citizen reports a sermon delivered at the Summer...
Auburn (N. Y.) Citizen
The Citizen reports a sermon delivered at the Summer School of Theology in which the clergyman made the common mistake of associating the teachings of Christian Science with methods of healing that are based either upon blind faith or upon mental suggestion. By way of correction, permit me to state that Christian Science is neither of these. Outside of this Science the reality of sin and disease is undisputed, even by those endeavoring to overcome it. By reality Christian Science means that which proceeds from God, or divine Principle, and has basis in fact.
If sickness were real, it could not possibly be cured, and it would be useless to try to cure it. But according to Christian Science, God is the author of good only. From this it follows that sickness is not real, owing to the simple fact that it is not good. A perfectly good God could create only a perfect man. When this spiritual fact is understood and applied to discordant human belief, mortals will realize what Christ Jesus meant when he said to his disciples that by knowing the truth they would be made free. "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals," writes Mrs. Eddy on page 476 of Science and Health. "In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick."
Other healing systems undertake to make a sick man well, thereby working against the success of their own efforts; while Christian Science heals the so-called sick by knowing that man as God created him has never been sick. That the Christian Science method is the correct one is evidenced by the healing of cases which according to medical belief are supposed to be incurable. It was Christ Jesus who said that a tree is known by its fruits.
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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