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Individual Responsibility
Inasmuch as a church organization is an aggregation of individuals, it necessarily follows that the spiritual status and progressive aspects of the organization are dependent upon the collective spiritualized consciousness of the church body as a whole. A moment's consideration of this fact impels the inference that each and every member has a direct and individual responsibility, duty, and privilege in establishing and upholding the ideals of that organization.
The Christian Science church organization is composed of those individual members of society who, through the redemptive and healing ministrations of the Christ, Truth, have been, in differing degrees, delivered from certain traits of carnal-mindedness, lifted, perhaps, out of poverty or limitation, or healed of disease. They come from many different nationalities, from nearly every state of society, with varying degrees of education and a wide variety of culture, traditions, temperamental tendencies, as well as ideals, not only of religion, but of practically all other human endeavor. And no member is satisfied with the good he has demonstrated, but wishes to be better. He is also actuated by the desire, if he has given as careful consideration to the Manual of The Mother Church as he should, to take an intelligent, active part in the organization, with all that that implies.
The Manual of The Mother Church is to the establishment of the Cause of Christian Science what the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, is to its elucidation. It therefore behooves the Christian Scientist to familiarize himself with all the By-laws of the Manual, strive to live up to the requirements himself, foster the highest possible Christian ideals for the church organization as a whole, and work for their fulfillment.
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December 15, 1923 issue
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Individual Responsibility
JOHN C. GAMLEN
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The Practitioner's Opportunity
EDWARD KENNEDY
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Vision
JESSIE G. CALDWELL
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Walking in the Right Way
HELEN MAGDALEN STANES
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Refusing the Counterfeit
LUELLA PANNEBAKER DIESEM
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The Word "Let"
BARBARA WARDWELL
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Substance
LATITIA CORNELL HERRLING
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Christian Science teaches that Christ is the Son of God,...
J. O. Thomson, Committee on Publication for the Province of Victoria, Australia,
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The teachings of Christian Science have opened the eyes...
Miss Ellen Graham, Committee on Publication for Lanarkshire, Scotland,
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The critic seeks to interpret some of Christ Jesus'...
Lester B. McCoun, Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,
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Branch churches and societies, and Christian Scientists...
Miss Kate E. Andreae, Committee on Publication for Sussex, England,
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Christian Science depends entirely on God, the divine...
Harry K. Filler, Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,
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Christian Scientists and faith healers are not synonymous...
Mrs. H. J. Jewson, Committee on Publication for Norfolk, England,
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The assertion that Mrs. Eddy says matter is...
Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Pennsylvania,
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The Way
GEORGIAN EVELYN SMITH
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Love Which Reflects Love
Albert F. Gilmore
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Divine Mind's Control
Ella W. Hoag
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Error Is Powerless
Duncan Sinclair
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The Lectures
with contributions from George Martin, Joe Barndollar, William E. Armstrong, Alwin Rossling, Etta M. Gilbreath, W. K. Riddle, John B. Moschell
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In the past twenty-two years I have been the grateful...
Lillian McMorris
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In March, 1917, while I was operating a ripsaw, a hardwood...
Willis E. Grimes
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I feel I have waited too long to express my gratitude...
Cecelia G. Oberdorfer
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I should like to express my deep gratitude for Christian Science...
Clara A. Whitworth
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Over ten years ago I turned to Christian Science for physical...
Geraldine I. Logan
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Christian Science has been my only physician since I...
Claribel Kendall
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I wish to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science...
Julia M. McMullin
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I wish to express my gratitude for all the blessings I have...
John Ingram Stoddart
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O Love Divine
MAUDE A. MAY
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from William Anderson Philips, Frank R. Forrest, Mark True, Coolidge, Harry Emerson Fosdick