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Scientific Teaching in the Sunday School
Scientifically speaking, Christian instruction consists not alone of a correct statement of the letter; it must always be accompanied by the impartation of spiritualized consciousness. The Sunday school teacher can no more teach scientifically without depending upon the Christ-idea, than the practitioner can heal without this dependence. To suppose that Christian Science can be learned after the manner in which the learning of the schools is acquired is a grave mistake. We cannot gain any true understanding of Christian Science through merely reading and studying Science and Health; it is through the perpetual effort to live in accord with its teachings, and to apply them, that one attains a spiritual understanding and is able to impart to others the grand truths of Science.
Do we not by our very presence exhale the mental essence of our lives, regardless of spoken or unspoken words? Do we not impart the quality of the consciousness in which we are dwelling? If we are in a state of worry, sadness, resentment, or any kind of friction, we can hardly escape breathing it into the mental atmosphere of those around us, unless in our struggle against it we are bringing enough good to bear upon the error to counteract its hidden activities. On the other hand, if we are dwelling in a state of uplifted consciousness,—in faith, joy, and peace,—we shall impart a spiritual aroma that awakens receptivity, calls forth hidden spirituality, and brings out the very best in the pupil.

August 4, 1917 issue
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Scientific Teaching in the Sunday School
LUCY HAYS REYNOLDS
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Awake in the Night
SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD
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Gratitude to Mrs. Eddy
FLORENCE CLERIHEW BOYD
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Balance
ESTHER B. MC LAUGHLIN
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Talking with God
THORWALD SIEGFRIED
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"Tired children"
TRUMAN H. RICE
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The effort of a public speaker to besmirch the character...
Lloyd B. Coate
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Christian Scientists do not endeavor to isolate themselves,...
Thorwald Siegfried
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It is now forty-two years since Mrs. Eddy first published...
W. Stuart Booth
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In the report of a recent sermon there is a reference to...
Charles W. J. Tennant
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Go Forward
William P. McKenzie
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The Science of Liberty
William D. McCrackan
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What God Hath Joined Together
Annie M. Knott
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The Lectures
with contributions from T. P. Laird, John C. F. Slayton, Salem A. Hart, Jr., Eldred H. Warner, Hugh Stuart Campbell, Helen Snow, Lillian C. Kenyon, Asyth L. Hawk
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Early in 1916 I joined the army, and I did so without...
Edwin Albert Garner
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Five years before I learned of Christian Science the doctor...
Prudence Rawson
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I have gained so much help from reading the testimonies of...
Frank L. Grannis with contributions from Laura Johnston Grannis
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Such a beautiful illustration of God's way of caring for...
Marcia E. Gaier
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Dawn
ELISABETH RICHARDS
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From Our Exchanges
with contributions from William Arnold Shanklin, John G. Hill, Joseph Fort Newton