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explaining the methods through which error claims to work, a Christian Science practitioner once told how, some years before, when he was a prospector, he was one day out alone on the veldt in South Africa and came suddenly upon a troop of baboons.
There are probably few scenes recorded in the Bible more dramatic in character and of greater metaphysical significance than Paul's recital of his conversion to Christianity, as he stood before the angry Jewish mob from whose violence he was delivered through his appeal to the Roman centurion.
In answer to the assertion by a local pastor in his sermon that Christian Scientists deny the existence of the material body, it may be said that Christian Science does not deny that the material body exists to human sense, but explains it as being a phenomenon of this human or material sense.
A writer states that "Christian Science was born through lack of attention on the part of the medical profession to mental suggestion in the treatment of disease," thus by inference at least likening Christian Science treatment to mental suggestion.
Recognizing the inevitable correlation of Christian practice with preaching, Christ Jesus proved his doctrine of the omnipotence of good by destroying, and thus proving unreal, every phase of evil, such as sin, sorrow, and sickness.
I read with much interest the sermon in which a rector is reported to have expressed his earnest desire that the Christ-healing would be understood by his church, and recommended it to follow the Master's twofold injunction, "Preach the gospel" and "Heal the sick.
"When I reflect upon my experiences as a member of the Expeditionary Forces in France, there comes into my thought this statement from Science and Health.
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kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
with contributions from William Merritt Pardue, John M. Dean, Ella E. Manning, Benjamin F. Burtless, C. P. Herd, James S. Baley, Louis J. Lewis, Evelyn M. Carr, Aletta B. Gorman, Asa T. Patterson, Roy M. McCloud, Eric Brown, Alice P. Valley
Lecture notices can be printed in a particular number of the Sentinel when they reach the editorial department twelve days preceding its date of publication.
I have been so much benefited by reading the testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals that I feel I have delayed too long in sending the account of my healing in 1912.
Other when suffering from some discordant condition I have received help instantaneously by reading testimonies in the Sentinel or the Journal, and I therefore add my experience in the hope that it will help others.
I rejoice and am exceedingly glad that since I became interested in the study of Christian Science the Bible has become an open book to me, whereas before it seemed so deep, uninteresting, and contradictory in its statements.
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with contributions from William Merritt Pardue, John M. Dean, Ella E. Manning, Benjamin F. Burtless, C. P. Herd, James S. Baley, Louis J. Lewis, Evelyn M. Carr, Aletta B. Gorman, Asa T. Patterson, Roy M. McCloud, Eric Brown, Alice P. Valley