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The True Healing
"Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved," discriminates between spiritual and material healing. From God alone comes the true healing and the true salvation. The signs of the times would indicate a growing appreciation of this fact on the part of countless thousands. What is not of God fails to satisfy the higher human cravings. No quality of evil was ever known to accomplish good for any one. The cry of the Spirit is to come up higher; to find God and be really healed. Seeking relief from aches and pains is commendable at all times; but unless the relief obtained is accompanied by moral and spiritual reformation, complete healing has not been realized.
One of the most helpful experiences that ever comes to a mortal is his failure to find healing through matter. Then it is that he realizes the need of taking a forward step. Every effort that tends to increase one's faith and confidence in material things only operates to keep one away from the truth. Every admission of good supposed to be received from the use of drugs is one step farther into darkness; while every failure to receive help from matter is an advance towards the light. While this statement may not appeal to the zealous materialist, it is nevertheless true. It is wholehearted seeking that ascertains God's ways and means of blessing His children; and such seeking is not in evidence so long as one's faith is divided between drugs and Christ. Christian Science makes this plain to humanity; and for this reason it is phenomenally successful to-day in its mission of Christ-healing, while all systems founded on a divided faith, a so-called faith in two powers working in opposition to each other, spell only failure and disappointment. When one takes a dose of medicine, he virtually declares: There is something in me that does not believe in God or in His Christ, and to which the goodness of God can make no appeal. Whatever the apparent result of taking this medicine, the whole experience, from beginning to end, belongs to the realm of mortal consciousness, in which God plays no part.

January 12, 1924 issue
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The True Healing
CLARENCE W. CHADWICK
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The Gaining of Eternal Life
MARIE C. HARTMAN
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Laying the Corner-stone
ANNA E. HERZOG
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Effect
EMILY EDWARDS
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Gratitude
ADA PICKLES
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True Giving
EUGENE P. COLLINS
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To those who have not looked deeply into the teaching of...
Stanley M. Sydenham, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,
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Christian Science practitioners do not personally attend...
Van Buren Perry, Committee on Publication for the State of South Dakota,
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Divine metaphysics, as taught in Christian Science, needs...
Peter B. Biggins, Committee on Publication for the Province of Alberta, Canada,
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Christian Science is the practice of healing through the...
Mrs. Alice T. Caruthers, Committee on Publication for the State of West Virginia,
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The teachings and practice of Christian Science, as set...
Charles E. Heitman, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
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Christian Science has nothing in common with suggestion,...
Mrs. H. J. Jewson, Committee on Publication for Norfolk, England,
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Letters from the Field
Emma J. Leplow
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Longevity Increases
Albert F. Gilmore
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The Love of God
Ella W. Hoag
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Healing through Mind
Duncan Sinclair
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The Lectures
with contributions from Viscountess Astor, Howard C. R. Thayer, Ella J. Bolton, Ralph O. Brewster, Frank Bell, Charles E. Hallenbeck, Fredda R. Gratke, Ethel Colwell Smith
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Christian Science has freed me of various acute and...
Wallace Morton Woodbury
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It seemed that my life had been made up of unfortunate...
Ernest E. Harriman
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Nine years ago, when all sense of human happiness and...
Cassandra Porter
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I wish to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science...
Frieda Reichmuth
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It is with a heart full of gratitude for what Christian Science...
Amanda S. Procknow
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Joy and gratitude are the words which most nearly express...
Emily Jane Sprackett
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Christian Science came into our home twenty-one years...
Louis B. Dvorak
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Recently I had some dentistry work done, and one...
Louise Hope Driggars
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Trust
MILDRED EDWARDS GREENMAN
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Herbert Dwight Ketcham, J. W. Skinner, John Leighton, Herbert S. Houston, Canon Barnes