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Please permit me to say to your readers that Mrs. Eddy was not as stated by our critic. Careful historians and discriminating writers, who have searched carefully and have sought information from all available sources, have written of her life and character and published what they have written in standard histories, dictionaries, cyclopedias, and periodicals, which may be found in any public library. Her life and character tell their own story. She was impelled from very childhood by "a hunger and thirst after divine things" (Retrospection and Introspection, p. 31) and was connected with the Congregational Church in Tilton, New Hampshire, for nearly forty years. In 1881 Mrs. Eddy was ordained to the ministry. The uninstructed critics in Jesus' time called him ignorant and referred to him as "the carpenter's son." They said, "How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?"
We cannot agree that "God is personality," in the sense of a human personality; for does not the Bible say, "God is a Spirit," and "God is love"? Christian Science is essentially Christian. Its first article of faith reads, "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 497).
How can a Christian believe in the "reality of sin with all its attendant horrors" when the Bible declares that God pronounced good all that He created, and He made all? Sin is not a product of God, and therefore must be regarded as having no reality, before it can be overcome as a false belief. There is nothing "mystical and superstitious" about a denomination which makes Christians. Christian Science has no mysteries,—little children readily understand its simple verities. Through the prayerful application of its teachings the lives of millions of individuals have been redeemed and transformed. In comparing this Science of healing with other religions since the first century, we find that Christian Science possesses more of the Christ-spirit than do all other religions. He of open mind will discern the "signs of these times, the reappearance of the Christianity which heals the sick and destroys error" (Science and Health, p. 98).
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July 12, 1924 issue
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Where and How Are We Thinking?
ALGERNON HERVEY BATHURST
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"Clad in the panoply of Love"
ALLAN CARSON
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Prayer
SARAH EDITH WELTI
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Vacation
IDA M. ROWLEY
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Abram and Lot
FLORENCE IRENE GUBBINS
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Truth Is the One Fact
JESSIE G. CALDWELL
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A New Sense of Love
ZOE H. CLARKE
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Obedience
EDITH MAE BRISAC
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Most of those who turn to Christian Science do so to be...
Count Sigge Cronstedt, Committee on Publication for Sweden,
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A correspondent in your issue of January 29 considers...
Miss Evelyn L. Webb, Committee on Publication for County Antrim, Ireland,
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A critic has asked if Christian Science could "show one...
Charles W. Hale, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,
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In recent issues of the Messenger were printed some...
Brigman C. Odom, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
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Please permit me to say to your readers that Mrs. Eddy...
Harry L. Rhodes, Committee on Publication for the State of Kansas,
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Thousands of men and women, in all parts of the world...
Mrs. Elsie Ashwell, Committee on Publication for Warwickshire, England,
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It is the desire and prayer of all Christian Scientists, as...
Harry K. Filler, Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,
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A Song of Praise
HENRIETTA MAYER GROSSMAN
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The Joy of Obedience
Albert F. Gilmore
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Communion with God
Ella W. Hoag
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"The basis of thought and demonstration"
Duncan Sinclair
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The Lectures
with contributions from Frederick P. Schenck, Mabel Hewitt, Mme Jeanne Panchaud, Aileen Goldstein, Edith M. Shank, Walter H. Pugh, George H. Kitendaugh
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I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science...
Arthur C. F. Blohm with contributions from Helen F. Blohm
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In Deuteronomy we read, "The eternal God is thy...
Emma J. Walker
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"Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be...
Margarette Henrileana Rhule
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In 1910 I went for a summer holiday to a little village...
Arthur G. Stevenson
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I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science...
Johannette Weber
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My family had passed and were passing through many...
Beatrice Katz
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One morning when I awoke my face was inflamed and...
Maybell Strock
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Christian Science has been the greatest blessing in my...
Catherine Hulme
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It is with sincere gratitude to God and Christian Science...
Ella S. Egeler
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I am offering this testimony to show in a measure my...
Cora H. Schnebly
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from George W. Truett, W. P. Paterson