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When to a Christian Scientist the question is submitted...
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When to a Christian Scientist the question is submitted as to the relation of religion and Science, he experiences with joy that through Christian Science he has found an answer which not only satisfies his intellect but also quickness and enriches his spiritual self, inspires him with unlimited and efficacious love for his fellow men and for all creation, and makes him conscious of the Father's allness, of His kingdom, which is come on earth as well as in heaven. Does not God's ever present love enfold all creation with the blessing of His presence?
Science is knowledge, knowledge not only of the phenomena but, in the first place, of the cause basing and determining them. What is commonly called "science" is not the highest, not absolute, Science. Much of what some centuries ago was considered to be science, is now unscientific, and it is probable that sooner or later the same will be thought of much that to-day is esteemed as science. Far above this changing and mutable conception of science stands the absolute Science, the knowledge of Truth. The highest and most exact science, or, as a wise man said ages ago, The only absolute Science is therefore that which reveals the basic cause of all things. And this great First Cause, this Principle of being, is the fundamental Truth, the divine Mind, which many call God. Science in the absolute sense of the word is therefore knowledge of God's laws, of His manifestation in and through the universe, including man.
Striving for that knowledge is studying divine Science; it is searching to know what is the seeming and what the truth about things; it is an approximation or prescience of God's qualities, which even as Himself are spiritual. The more such science approaches the spiritual background of things, the more it learns to reckon with supersensible causes and activities, the more it leads to the perception of the idea, to the real nature of things, and the more it unfolds the oneness, which is the basis of all that exists. Although darkened by material hypotheses, we trace in what the world calls science, more or less, and in purer or impurer form, something of the law and order existing in God's creation. All science finally goes out to the immaterial truth, to that which cannot be fettered or forced by human opinions, but which, on the contrary, by its very nature is destined to be all-in-all.
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May 8, 1920 issue
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"Quod Erat Demonstrandum"
JAMES L. BRUCE
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"Experiences, testimonies, and remarks"
MARIAN CAMPBELL
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Ambition
D. ALLYN GARBER
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Seeing
PEARL E. KEELER
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Independence
GUY H. DEMPSTER
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Expression Equals Demonstration
CORA ARMSTRONG KELLAM
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Nearer to Thee
FRANCES BROWN SKINNER
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In a recent issue of The Citizen you published a short report...
V. M. B. Stievenard
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When to a Christian Scientist the question is submitted...
Marie Hartmann
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The gentleman, "J. B.," who criticizes Christian Science,...
Peter B. Biggins
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A correspondent, who writes in a recent issue, is not a...
Charles W. J. Tennant
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"A murderer from the beginning"
Frederick Dixon
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Protected Health
Gustavus S. Paine
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Admission to Membership in The Mother Church
Charles E. Jarvis
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The Lectures
with contributions from Annie Bowers, Mary L. Bruce, George O. Melick, F. J. Woods, Warwick Lloyd, Harry I. Hunt, O. G. Mechem, Julia A. Dyer, Zella A. Thomas, Lee Guest, Blanche Luckey
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In looking over the testimonies in one of my Sentinels I...
Lillie B. Harding
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Christian Science has meant everything to me
Marie Buchanan with contributions from Jennie N. Buchanan
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I first heard of Christian Science in 1896, but as it...
Garrie N. Todd
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It is with a deep sense of gratitude for what Christian Science...
Helen S. Hungerford
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My wife and I have been in Christian Science for more...
Marc Michot Clément
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After reading the different testimonies in the Sentinel...
James H. Pickering
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I now feel it a blessed opportunity to tell of the many...
Mabel L. Helder with contributions from George F. Helder
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With a heart filled with gratitude for what Christian Science...
Alvina Brodersen
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Right now, just as I finish reading an article in a recent...
Mabelle M. Senter
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I wish to add another expression of gratitude to the many...
Lillian I. Burrus
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Had it not been for Christian Science I would not be here...
Louis Schofield
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Florence Davis