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"A land flowing with milk and honey"
Christian Science opens the eyes of those who are ready to see the real land flowing with milk and honey, the ever present spiritual reality of the kingdom of heaven. The materially greedy may picture the promised land as an opportunity for unlimited enjoyment; but those who are looking Spiritward think of it as a state of consciousness in which harmony and justice, joy and unselfishness, brotherly kindness and genuine friendship, are forever safeguarded from fear and hate. Through much labor the materially minded may enter a Canaan of their own imagination and taste of the fruits of the flesh until they revolt against these unsatisfying experiences and become receptive to truth. In the meantime the righteous are led out of an Egypt of mental darkness, through the severe tests of the wilderness into a promised land which is spiritual and not material, which is full of scientific satisfaction and peace, sheltered by the Zion of God's presence, and nourished with the milk of spiritual substance and the honey of divine Love.
Ignorance and fear everywhere go hand in hand. The uncertainty as to the promised land keeps many in bondage to Pharaoh, but if real existence and activity were known to be purely of God and evil was recognized as illusive, the fear of the future would disappear. Every individual is scientifically justified in realizing that God has nothing but good in store for him. Whatever personal sense may argue about advancing years, God places no failure of force, no decrepitude, no ugliness upon those who are growing in wisdom and experience. Christian Science teaches the permanence of goodness, beauty, and vigor and encourages and sustains its followers through good and evil report.
The universality of the appeal of Christian Science is illustrated by the fact that it provides milk for babes as well as meat for the strong. Children profit by its declarations of truth quite as readily as their elders; the unlearned and unlettered grasp its liberating truth as firmly as the so-called educated. In describing the purpose of her little work entitled "No and Yes" Mrs. Eddy states in the Preface: "To those who are athirst for the life-giving waters of a true divinity, it saith tenderly, 'Come and drink;' and if you are babes in Christ, leave the meat and take the unadulterated milk of the Word, until you grow to apprehend the pure spirituality of Truth."
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July 6, 1918 issue
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Guidance and Law
SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD
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The Word Everywhere Present
CAROLINE S. ROWELL
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Changing One's Views
WILLIAM FRYE WHITE
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"Understood spiritually"
MARY H. MC ALONEY
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Working for God
KATHERINE E. VARGA
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In a recent issue under "Gossip and Grumbles," the following...
Duncan Sinclair
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Since the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,"...
W. Stuart Booth
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Christian Science does not teach that the man of flesh can...
Percy Heywood Brooks
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Our great Master did not escape the bitter misrepresentation...
F. Elmo Robinson
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In a sermon recently reported in the News, the pastor...
Albert F. Gilmore
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Metaphysics versus Human Psychology
William P. McKenzie
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"A land flowing with milk and honey"
William D. McCrackan
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A Refuge from the Storm
Annie M. Knott
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Notice
with contributions from Christian Science War Relief
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The Lectures
with contributions from Albert F. Gilmore, John A. Jameson, Charles W. T. Weldon, Charles J. Andre, Alvin Hunsicker, Minnie G. Cook, Robert Allyn
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In going through "The Cave of the Winds" at Niagara...
Cecil E. MacMahon
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Unspeakable joy in finding God through Christian Science...
Bessie P. Irby
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Christian Science found me when I was ready for it
Adelaide F. Rollins
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I am sending this testimony to the Sentinel in gratitude...
Elizabeth Young
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I rejoice every day in an increasing measure of freedom,...
Christina C. Henderson
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It is with sincere gratitude that I offer this testimony
Jean Richardson
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From the Press
with contributions from Cyril Hepher
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Notices
with contributions from The Christian Science Publishing Society