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"Right reasoning"
The question asked by a small child in the Sunday school class, "Am I crippled because my papa was bad?" recalls the question of the disciples in regard to the blind man whom Jesus healed, "Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus answered, "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me."
Christian Science teaches the fatherhood of God absolutely; that is to say, that God is Father of the real man. It follows naturally that the father of error or discord is the false concept of life in matter. When Jesus rebuked the arguments of error he said: "Ye are of your father the devil." Down the ages has come this lie, that man is fathered by a power apart from God; but there is no truth in it. It lasts only so long as it is believed in; therefore, as Jesus said, the lie of discord but indicates that the works of God are yet to be made manifest in place of the inharmony. On page 262 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" we read, "The foundation of mortal discord is a false sense of man's origin;" and on page 492 we have the correcting truth, "For right reasoning there should be but one fact before the thought, namely, spiritual existence."

January 25, 1919 issue
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The Christian Science Benevolent Association
EDWARD A. MERRITT
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"Go unto thine house"
W. EDSON SMITH
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"Right reasoning"
FLORENCE DAVIS KELLER
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Effective Literature Distribution
ALMA R. ALFOTH
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Reflection
ELLEN MADDEN
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The Bow in the Cloud
ALMA LUTZ
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"Our Father-Mother God"
ANNIE JONES ATKIN
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Your correspondent, "C. H. C.," is unnecessarily disturbed...
Judge Clifford P. Smith
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An old soldier writing under the name of "Anti-Charlatan"...
Peter B. Biggins
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In commenting on an item recently published by the...
George C. Eames
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Things Not Expedient
William P. McKenzie
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The Veil Spread Over All Nations
Annie M. Knott
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The Dictates of One's Conscience
William D. McCrackan
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The Lectures
with contributions from Louis Cohen, Henniker Heaton, Lizzie M. Cochran, J. W. Hawley, Henry J. Snyder, Fred J. Stevens
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With a profound sense of gratitude I am desirous of narrating...
Hubert Meredith-Jones
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Christian Science came into my life as a complete and...
Ethel A. Head with contributions from Norah H. Jenkinson
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During the Spanish-American war I received a gunshot...
Charles W. Ruedy
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Since coming into Christian Science we have had many...
J. T. Blair with contributions from Bertha A. Blair
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Desiring to express my gratitude to God and to acknowledge...
Mary H. Burgess
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I first heard of Christian Science through a dear sister...
Elizabeth Colegrave
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My longing for something real led me, two years ago, to...
Eugene H. Foulke
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I would like to express my appreciation of the blessings...
Lelan L. Schley
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from W. Douglas Mackenzie, Herbert D. Sterling