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"Practical repentance"
Mrs. Eddy on page 19 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in speaking of efficacious repentance, points out that one who continues to sin, even though he repents, has little sense of unity with God, "for," she declares, "he lacks the practical repentance, which reforms the heart and enables man to do the will of wisdom." Our Leader makes clear the quality of repentance which is practical, that which reforms one's thoughts and in consequence one's acts, thereby working the regeneration which accompanies spiritualization of consciousness.
The repentance so described does not necessitate violent or tumultuous action, or the destruction of our present state of consciousness, the mental house in which we live. Rather does it require us to transform our thinking, to rebuild it by putting in a new timber here, and another there,—that is, a right idea in the place of a wrong one,—and so continue until we shall finally come into the "stature of the fulness of Christ." Meantime, there has been no violence to our mental states, our highest concepts, but rather has consciousness undergone transformation through right ideas taking the place of erroneous beliefs. Truth supplants error in just this way, and our mental home is rebuilt until it becomes the "house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens," in which there remains no trace or semblance of the material beliefs which at one time may have seemed to furnish us with perfectly adequate shelter.

November 13, 1926 issue
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"Where art thou?"
ANITA ST. JOHN KELLY
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Ethics of Church Government
JOHN L. RENDALL
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Daily Work
ETHEL H. GARDINER
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Humility versus Aggression
MARIAN G. PAGE
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"Be it song, sermon, or Science"
EMMA M. MADSEN
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"Be of good cheer"
STOCKTON VEAZEY
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"A little child shall lead"
STOKES ANTHONY BENNETT
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A comparison of the book on Christian Science by Sir William Barrett,...
Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,
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In no way need we doubt your correspondent's earnestness...
Miss Evelyn Webb, Committee on Publication for County Antrim, Ireland,
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Evidently the writer in a recent issue reffered to Christian Scientists...
Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Pennsylvania,
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The Albertan recently published a report of the work of...
Peter B. Biggins, Committee on Publication for the Province of Alberta, Canada,
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An evangelist's sermon on woman, as reported in your...
Richard E. Prince, Committee on Publication for the State of Virginia,
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My Prayer
NANCY B. TOMLINSON
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"Practical repentance"
Albert F. Gilmore
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One Principle and One Purpose
Ella W. Hoag
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Persistent Endeavor
Duncan Sinclair
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The Lectures
with contributions from Selma Schmidt, Charles R. Vosburg, John C. Smith, Viscountess Astor
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Several years ago the testimony of my original healing...
Frances May Harper
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Christian Science was first brought into my home when I...
Elizabeth R. I. Kitson
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An article I read in a Sentinel awakened me to the fact...
Marion Bromley Newton
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It is with profound gratitude I wish to tell of my...
Elli Niedermeyer
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Christian Science came into my life after material aid had...
Mary E. Arnold with contributions from Thomas H. Arnold
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I wish to give the following testimony concerning the...
Elisa Gyr-Hausler
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My daily prayer is to reflect more of the Christ in my...
Ruth K. Parros
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Richard C. Cabot, J. T. Ronald