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Cleansing of Sin
When the one sick of the palsy was brought to Jesus, the insight and spiritual understanding of the great Teacher at once enabled him to bring about the true healing that the sick one needed. His first words were, "Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee." Jesus saw not a hardened sinner, but one whose sins had brought him suffering; and he knew that what was primarily needed was a wiping out of the belief that the real man is ever capable of sin.
This wiping out of the belief in the reality and necessity of sin Jesus divinely accomplished instantaneously; and the simple words, "Thy sins be forgiven thee," but faintly portray the tremendous unfoldment of the spotless purity of God, good, that took place in the thinking of the sick man as Jesus beheld the spiritual, real man, sinless and perfect. The result was that the sufferer's sins were actually forgiven or destroyed. He was no longer bound by sin, and was also free from regret, remorse, and suffering. He was cleansed and purified. That was forgiveness.

July 3, 1926 issue
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As Mrs. Eddy Intended
GEORGE WENDELL ADAMS
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"Go, stand and speak in the temple"
MABEL REED HYZER
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"Praise ye the Lord"
JEAN S. FREEDLANDER
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Cleansing of Sin
RALPH P. AIKEN
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Harmony in the Sunday School
MABEL CAMERON HARDCASTLE
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The Divine Will and the Human
CLIFFORD M. SIMON
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The Ageless Christ
ELIZABETH HAYWARD GARDNER
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The attack on Christian Science by a clergyman (which...
Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston Massachusetts
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In regard to the evangelist's final sermon against what...
Israel Pickens, Committee on Publication for the State of Alabama,
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I have read with interest in the last issue of the Herald...
Stephen J. Sametz, Committee on Publication for the Province of Manitoba, Canada,
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An announcement was recently published in your paper...
Richard H. Smith, Committee on Publication for State of Montana,
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In a recent issue a report was given of the anniversary...
Miss Florence B. Russell, Committee on Publication for Hampshire, England,
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Tenderness
MARGARET MORRISON
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Letters from the Field
with contributions from Geraldine Foley-Turpin, Walter W. Morse, Nellie M. Ball
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Rights—Human and Divine
Albert F. Gilmore
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Gratitude and Healing
Duncan Sinclair
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Business Meetings of Branch Churches
Ella W. Hoag
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Notices
Robert S. Ross
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The Lectures
with contributions from Charles E. Farnsworth
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Realizing how very helpful the testimonies of healing...
Jennie B. Veness
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It is with the deepest gratitude for divine Love's ever...
Lillian E. Dunster
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I wish to express my gratitude for the Christian Science...
John Henry Femmel
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I did not take up Christian Science for physical healing,...
Matilda E. Hase
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Bernard Iddings Bell, Bailey Millard