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narratives of the Old Testament to many of us are familiar as household words; and yet, when we come to read them from the standpoint of Christian Science, we see that we may not in the past have recognized much of the spiritual meaning which lies behind the story, nor fully understood its application to individual experience.
So-called
mortal mind must be recognized as unreal and so disappear into its native nothingness; for to God and the real man no such condition as dream shadows is known.
The
orderly unfoldment which takes place in the thought of an individual who is progressing in the understanding of Christian Science is indicated in Mrs.
Marie C. Hartman, Committee on Publication for Holland,
The omnipresence of God, Spirit, which Christian Science emphasizes, precludes the possibility of matter having any real being; and this teaching accords to matter merely an objective existence,—in fact, it considers it a wrong concept of the unenlightened human mind.
Willard J. Welch, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,
Christian Science is a religion, and its ultimate purpose is to heal men of sin as well as sickness, inharmony, unhappiness, poverty, and kindred ills.
Mrs. Alice T. Caruthers, Committee on Publication for the State of Virginia,
That the Christ is divine is not only believed by the Christian Scientist; but to him this is demonstrable truth, and is constantly being proved to be true through Christianly scientific healing.
Charles E. Heitman, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
Christian Science does not teach that sickness is healed through the activities of mortal mind imagination; but, on the contrary, it holds that disease is the product of this so-called mind, the effect of false beliefs entertained by it, and that healing must, and does, come through the operation of spiritual understanding in human consciousness, even that understanding to which Jesus referred when he said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
No one who studies the life of Christ Jesus, as it is narrated in the gospels of the New Testament, can possibly fail to perceive that the effort of the great Nazarene was to reconcile man to God, good, and so to establish health, harmony, and peace among mankind.
with contributions from Murray Boocock, Walton Hubbard, Eugene W. Schubert, Peter V. Ross, Paul Stark Seeley, Elmer E. H. Pepper, M. Durand, A. Hervey-Bathurst
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Christian Science was brought to me by one who had himself demonstrated the unreality of tuberculosis in its advanced stages, and who made a trip from Jersey City to Albany to bring this great truth to me.
About sixteen years ago I was obliged to turn from physicians after having been under their treatment, as the occasion demanded, for more than forty years.
About sixteen years ago my mother was healed through Christian Science of a tubercular condition of her instep which had kept her a cripple some eight years; and as a result of this healing I began to have treatment when any ailments appeared, and also to read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
We who have learned the power of Truth, as revealed by Christian Science, know that everything good that comes to us is a demonstration, for in the words of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
Ask the gardener, he will tell youThat he reaps but what he sows;That the soil must be in order,Or the seed is dwarfed by foes;That the tares in good soil prosperAs the seed that aims to bless;That the good kind, he must nourish,Guard its growth with tenderness;True discernment is most needful—Sprouts bespeak the ripen'd fruit;That with prudence he must severBaneful waste from worthy root.
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with contributions from Murray Boocock, Walton Hubbard, Eugene W. Schubert, Peter V. Ross, Paul Stark Seeley, Elmer E. H. Pepper, M. Durand, A. Hervey-Bathurst