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St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette
Since a representative of another faith attacked Christian Science in your columns, because of what it teaches on fear as related to an epidemic of disease, your readers are likely to be interested in what other persons, at least equally well informed, have said on the same subject.
In the Battle Creek Journal (Michigan) the editor said: "Above all, do not worry. There is an element in every community that does not fear disease germs and denies their existence. Whatever may be said of this belief, the fact remains that its followers have a greater average resisting power than those who fear deadly germs in every breeze that blows. Their mental state serves as a breaker against such epidemics as that which is abroad." In the Fort Smith American (Arkansas) Rev. Mr. Lampkin said, "The fear of disease ought not to make us distrust God, close down on Christian activities, and shut our church doors." In the Los Angeles Camera (California) the editor said: "The present closing orders are the best things in the world for the spread of the disease, and the newspaper articles that have been broadcasted would make ordinary German propaganda seek a dark corner in shame. America, the greatest nation in the world, is giving way before a mental panic." In the Memphis News-Scimitar (Tennessee) the editor said: "Fear produces what may be called mob-hypnosis. Deaths from this cause were not unknown in Memphis during the visitation of yellow fever. What a man thinks, that is what he is, largely. The mind exercises a powerful influence upon the body. Scientists, who are not Christian Scientists, are aware of this." In the Great Falls Tribune (Montana) Doctor McCarten, the city health officer, said: "The less general talk there is about the disease the fewer cases of it will actually be reported. So-called epidemics like this are to a considerable extent a mental thing."

March 8, 1919 issue
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The League of Nations
JOHN GOODFELLOW RAMSBOTTOM
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Distribution Work
MARION N. BANDMAN
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The Harp of Joy
GUSTAVUS S. PAINE
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Purity
ANNIE TREACHER HALL
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The Real Meaning of the Sabbath
HAROLD F. COPE
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"Our Father-Mother God"
LILIAN E. FALES
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Willard J. Welch
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W. Stuart Booth
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Judge Clifford P. Smith
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Covenanting with God
William P. McKenzie
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Trust in God
Annie M. Knott
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Miracles
William D. McCrackan
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Among the Churches
with contributions from Charles E. Jarvis
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Admission to Membership in The Mother Church
Charles E. Jarvis
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The Lectures
with contributions from Frederick P. Burrall, Henry E. Cooper, Janet Palmer, Alice S. Burns
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A few months ago I was billeted with four others in a...
Horace G. Laddiman
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I want to express deepest gratitude for all the blessings...
Katherine S. Jenkins
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I would like to express through the Sentinel or Journal...
Charles G. S. Cheney
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I think it a great privilege as well as a duty to testify to...
Halsa Shinneman
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With the dawning of each day, the unfolding of each...
Mary Hart Hilcher
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While I have been interested in Christian Science for several...
Gertrude F. Young
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I am so deeply grateful for Christian Science that I wish...
Amanda H. Schuette
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Alice Morgan Harrison, W. E. Burnett, W. H. Hopkins