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A recent article in the Herald referred to divine healing...
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A recent article in the Herald referred to divine healing, and in the course of the article the writer spoke of Christian Science in a manner which calls for correction. The writer tried to prove that healing by medical means is divine healing. In so doing he attempted to prove what conscientious medical men themselves would hesitate to claim. It is not difficult to note the sharp contrast which the Scriptures point out between a material method of healing and the divine method. For instance, we read of King Asa of old, of whom it is written: "In his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers."
The writer of the article deplores the fact that, to use his own words, "many are convinced that this method [Christian Science] will cure everything." Is it unreasonable to think that God, Spirit, who has created man in His own likeness, should be capable of maintaining him in harmony, and able to free mortals from every ill? Christian Scientists gratefully acknowledge God's supremacy; and they are proving the healing efficacy of God's law.
The writer of the article admits, in fact he emphatically affirms, that Christian Science "can certainly cure troubles brought on by brooding and nerves and hysteria." Christian Scientists agree with the fact contained in this statement, although they would not express it in just that way. But the efficacy of Christian Science reaches much farther, as many gladly attest who, through Christian Science, have been healed of organic diseases which were considered hopeless from the standpoint of the medical doctor. Christian Science goes farther still, for it destroys sin and wrong thinking. The destruction of sin is, in fact, the chief purpose of Christian Science.
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December 13, 1924 issue
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"Sent"
MARY I. MESECHRE
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Overcoming Self
DELLA M. WHITNEY
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Concerning "Claims"
ERNEST C. MOSES
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Resting in Every Step
FLORENCE D. GRIFFITH
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Our Reward
ALBERT M. CHENEY
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Scaffolding
MILDRED AUGUSTA BOYNTON
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True Vision
PEARLE M. WARREN
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In the published report of a sermon in your issue of recent date...
Richard E. Prince, Committee on Publication for the State of Virginia,
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A recent article in the Herald referred to divine healing...
Peter B. Biggins, Committee on Publication for Alberta, Canada,
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In your account of spiritual healing in Norwich, in a recent...
Stanley M. Sydenham, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,
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Christian Scientists do not contend that God gives them...
Fred B. Kerrick, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
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Christian Science healings are effected without regard to...
Fred Yould, Committee on Publication for Georgia,
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A contributor to the American of recent date objected...
Ven Buren Perry, Committee on Publication for the State of North Dakota,
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Love's Bounty
FLORENCE GERTRUDE THYNG
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True Witness-Bearing
Albert F. Gilmore
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Free Moral Agency
Ella W. Hoag
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Disease a Delusion
Duncan Sinclair
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The Lectures
with contributions from Ada A. Ashcom, Scott Evans Stepp, Ethel May Boyne, Julia Morgan Cox, John Randall Dunn
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During the past three years I have been experiencing an...
Charles W. C. Needham with contributions from Blanche Needham
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With the words, "I would to God, that not only thou,...
Emma Read Newton
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My interest in Christian Science was aroused partly because...
Gladys F. Wadsworth
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When Christian Science first came to my attention seriously...
Claire Davis Lasseter
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It is a number of years since Christian Science was presented...
Sarah Helen Henderson
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Faith
ELLEN BEACH YAW CANNON
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Wallace Thompson, Robertson Orr, H. Emilie Cady, Florence Nightingale