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Language That Heals
THE healing power of the right statement of Truth consists simply in the fact that the idea caused by the divine Mind is always whole. As this wholeness of the true idea takes the place of any human sense of lack, what is called healing comes about. Really, of course, the health that is of Spirit, not matter, always has inhered in the man who is God's image and likeness. Robust action is the only state of real being. To the extent, though, that the surety of this proves the utter nonsense of any fear of seeming limits, just so much of even the dream of evil is vanquished so that it ceases to suppose itself in any fashion. One reason for stating Truth is that this process may go on, for every word of true good shows that the counter lie, called evil, always has been void. Then too, the word of Truth is good in itself because it reveals with constant freshness the boundless Mind that is ever joyous. The student of Christian Science, therefore, is eager to know and to use the richness of right language.
In order to last, the words of Christ Jesus had to be inspired by the divine Mind. In a number of places Mrs. Eddy reminds us that "his words were articulated in the language of a declining race, and committed to the providence of God" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 163; see also pp. 100 and 121). "In no one thing," she goes on to say, "seemed he less human and more divine than in his unfaltering faith in the immortality of Truth. Referring to this, he said, 'Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away!' and they have not: they still live; and are the basis of divine liberty, the medium of Mind, the hope of the race." It is, indeed, the fact that what is expressed by the divine Mind alone is real that preserves the very statement of the true idea, in all sorts of varied phrases, to declare the Christ, who is present even unto the end of the world.

August 14, 1920 issue
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Arise
THEOPHILUS ALLEN
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"Crumbs of comfort"
MARY E. ARMSTRONG
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Distinguished Service Order
FLORENCE BOSWELL
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Right Knowing
HELEN T. BELFORD
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Giving Testimony
BLANCHE M. WETZELL
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Count Your Blessings
ALBERT E. BARNARD
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Our Isaac
MABEL GORDON-INGLIS
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A dispatch of recent date announces the verdict of a New Jersey...
William E. Brown
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During the course of his sermon, as reported in a recent...
Harry K. Filler
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The brief editorial entitled "Curtailing Religious Freedom"...
Samuel J. Macdonald
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Fallen Man
Frederick Dixon
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Language That Heals
Gustavus S. Paine
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The Lectures
with contributions from Ella D. Schindler, Albert W. Hall, Bertha L. Babcock, Paul Thiele, J. M. Bach, Frank Briggs, Israel Pickens, Robert A. Silliman, F. E. Gerlach, Rendle Carl Leathem, E. R. B. Allardice, W. G. Koch, F. Elmo Robinson, James C. Finney
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Love and gratitude for Christian Science have led me...
Laura R. Donges
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With a heart full of thankfulness for many blessings I...
Beryl Rosa Ware
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Gratitude for Christian Science and for our dear Leader,...
Harriette S. Frost
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About five years before learning of Christian Science I...
Harold L. Hilton
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Many blessings have come into my life through the understanding...
Margaret Tweedale
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Hoping that this testimony may be a help to some one...
Adde Ashbrook Sexton
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"Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there...
Elizabeth McKnight
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For a long time I have wanted to give my testimony of...
Stella Whiting
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The first Sunday in July, 1919, proved to be an eventful...
Frank E. Huckle
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I wish to give thanks for Christian Science
Rosina E. Hargreaves
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Richard C. Cabot, Paul S. Leinbach