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Evangelizing Human Selfhood
The generally accepted theory that man possesses a dual nature, a human and a divine one, is to all appearances very real to mankind, despite the warning in the allegory of the garden of Eden that men should beware of partaking of the fruit of the tree of good and evil. Since mortals seem to have accepted such a belief,—that evil along with good obtains in man,—they have reaped the fruits of their belief in evil experiences. Believing man's nature to consist of good and evil, they have—tacitly or rebelliously, as the case might be—viewed the resulting evil as unavoidable, and gradually become so reconciled to wrong that they have often accepted it as the inevitable thing, and good as the exception. This condition of servitude to both good and evil, coupled with a belief of helplessness against evil's domination, has been generally accepted throughout the centuries.
Christian Science, however, in accordance with the teaching and demonstration of Christ Jesus, reveals that good is the only reality and power, and that evil is illusion. Christian Science also explains Jesus' spiritual process of healing, which establishes man as wholly good, and able to reap the fruits of good alone. So steeped, however, has mankind become in the wrong assumption, that it can but slowly grasp this possibility. It queries, "How can Spirit affect the material? and how can men be helped thereby?" The answer is given by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, when she explains on page 254 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that "the human self must be evangelized." As she realized the difficulty which mankind would meet in making this remedy practical, she continues, "This task God demands us to accept lovingly to-day, and to abandon so fast as practical the material, and to work out the spiritual which determines the outward and actual."

July 19, 1924 issue
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"Our Father which art in heaven"
STANLEY M. SYDENHAM
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"The higher criticism"
GRACE M. PUTNAM
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Justice
CHRISTINE H. BEALS
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The Inherent Ability to Demonstrate
ELLEN W. STURCKEN
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Vacation
HUGH STUART CAMPBELL
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"In thy light shall we see light"
WINIFRED JOHNSON FIELD
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Evangelizing Human Selfhood
ELIZABETH MARIA CORDSEN
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To overcome evil with good is the constant work of...
Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland
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One of the evidence that Christian Science is the reinstatement...
W. Stuart Booth, Committee on Publication for the State of Colorado
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On the magazine page of your paper of January 12,...
Fred B. Kerrick, Committee on Publication for Northern California
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Class teaching in Christian Science is authorized by the...
Arthur P. DcCamp, Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri
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Your issue of January 6 contained a Cappy Ricks story...
Louis E. Scholl, Committee on Publication for the State of Washington
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"Be still"
FRANK SARGENT BARTLETT
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Letters from the Field
with contributions from Alma Jenkins, William P. Beers, A. Etta Small
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Church Membership
Albert F. Gilmore
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Obedience
Duncan Sinclair
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The Only True Incentive
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Fred M. Lamson, Susie Belle Guernsey, John White, Frank D. Gorsline, Joan E. Metelerkamp, Elizabeth McCaa Mayer, Elmer I. Baldwin, May Lane , Justa Joiner Cartwright
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Before I knew of Christian Science I had been the victim...
Amelia T. Swalley
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When my daughter was just past six years of age, she...
Eleanor Morris Sneller
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I am very grateful for what Christian Science has done...
Harry Aaron Jacobs
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My interest in Christian Science was aroused by a lecture...
Lilian Alda Zillwood
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Five years ago I became interested in Christian Science,...
Blanche G. Dillman
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In the fall of 1914 I began the study of Christian Science...
Edith Glenn Southwell
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In the spring of 1910 I came to Idaho seeking healing...
Emmett E. Kail
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About ten months ago I was suddenly stricken with a serious...
Gertrude Gardiner
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God's Reign
JUSTINE DAY HATHAWAY
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Bernard Hancock, Plumer, William M. Fincke, Polly Cooper, W. L. Sperry, Robert Hopkins, Charles E. Hughes