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Sin is, indeed, not a trifling matter, and I can agree with...
Portland Oregonian
Sin is, indeed, not a trifling matter, and I can agree with a correspondent of your paper when he says, "Every time we sin we make ourselves traitors to God and a soldier fighting in the devil's army." To which side Christian Science gives allegiance is indicated by the statement found in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, on page 450, "The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death;" and that is surely fighting on the right side. Christian Science honors God in the highest degree, refusing to serve or acknowledge any claim of power or being apart from Him, and giving proof of its loyalty and fidelity by its works. The First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," is the favorite text of Christian Science, which insists there is none other but He, as the Bible declares; and consequently Christian Science teaches strict obedience and sole allegiance to this one and only true God. Surely that cannot be treason.
The sinner makes a reality of sin, and so becomes its victim. So long as he indulges in sin he suffers from it, and is, indeed, found "fighting in the devil's army." But Christian Science exposes the true nature and character of sin, teaching that it is unreal in the sense that God never made it, hence that it can be destroyed, and the sinner reformed by demonstrating the truth about it, proving its unreality through repentance and reformation. It is only as we cease to sin, cease to indulge in it, that we are able to see sin as unreal and understand the allness of God, good. This teaching does not by any means "lull the people to sleep by telling them there is no enemy;" but on the contrary it uncovers the deceptiveness of sin, arousing the sinner to repent and forsake his sin, and thus work out his own salvation.
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July 22, 1922 issue
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Thinking
CAROLINE H. PATON
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"Thy will be done"
BESSIE GILBERT
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Acknowledgment
MILTON B. MARKS
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The Way Out of Loneliness
ELMO B. WHITMORE
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Growth
THESTER A. MC CLENNAN
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Perfect Example
MAY BELCHER
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To-day
JOSEPHINE M. FABRICANT
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Many people have wondered why readers of newspapers...
Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The Mother Church,
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While Christian Scientists appreciate the kindly tone...
R. F. Haskins, Committee on Publication for the State of Vermont,
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Your correspondent, "A Victim," makes some general...
Stanley M. Sydenham, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,
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An understanding of Christian Science includes the ability...
Harry K. Filler, Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,
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Christian Science itself needs neither apology nor defense
Willard J. Welch, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,
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Though a correspondent in a recent issue of your paper,...
Albert W. Le Messurier, Committee on Publication for the Channel Islands,
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Sin is, indeed, not a trifling matter, and I can agree with...
Theodore Burkhart, Committee on Publication for the State of Oregon,
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The Way of Holiness
Albert F. Gilmore
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Rest
Duncan Sinclair
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Quietness
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Anna W. Nichols, W. Caven Barron, N. P. Richardson, Bessie D. Lindsey , J. C. Jones
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I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science...
William H. Brickert with contributions from Margaret Brickert
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About two years ago, I experienced a beautiful healing...
Minnie M. Opitz
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It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I offer this testimony...
Mary C. Bertram with contributions from Simon C. Bertram
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A little more than four years ago my two sons and a...
Robert C. Meyers
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In December, 1916, while walking home one day I fell...
Rose A. Davis
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In grateful acknowledgment of benefits received, I would...
Hanna Pfeiffer
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Several years ago I had the grippe
Lucy Lunt Welch
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Like David of old, my desire is to have a clean heart
Mary E. Kelley
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Vera Tolstoy, Sara L. Stoner