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True Worship
Jesus ' memorable statement to the Samaritan woman at the well of Sychar contains valuable information as regards true worship. For this woman, who in common with all Samaritans worshiped on Mount Gerizim, he defined true worship. He denied the authenticity of the Samaritans' form of religious observance, declaring that they knew not what they worshiped. "We know what we worship," he asserted, adding, "Salvation is of the Jews," and, "The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth."
In these terse sentences, Christ Jesus set for all time the true standard of worship. "In spirit and in truth" must true devotees look to God, if they are to partake of the heavenly blessings the bountiful Father has provided for all. To gain the full significance of Jesus' words, it must be recalled that while the Samaritans had taken over the letter of the Jewish religion, had adopted its outward rites and ceremonies, they had not attained its deeper meanings. Their concept of God was far different from that which Christ Jesus held. They adhered to the Jehovistic idea of God as endowed with magnified human traits, attributes, and characteristics. Since Jesus knew their concept of God to be false, he could declare that the worshipers in Gerizim knew not what they worshiped; that is, had no adequate concept of Deity. But with the understanding of God as Spirit, a concept of Deity which Jesus was the first to gain and reveal, came the possibility of true worship, based upon knowledge of God's real nature.

January 29, 1927 issue
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"Unselfed love"
IVA B. LINEBARGER
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Protection versus Self-Will
GERTRUDE S. PERKINS
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Democracy
HAROLD FARMER HALL
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Forward, Christian Scientists!
LAURA SPENCER DOW
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"If ... thine eye be single"
E. HOWARD GILKEY
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True Happiness
OLIVE M. PRICE
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With reference to the editorial in your recent issue, commenting...
Arthur P. De Camp, Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri,
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Members of the Christian Science church have no desire...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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For the information of your readers, kindly allow me...
Stephen J. Sametz, Committee on Publication for the Province of Manitoba, Canada,
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The Goal
MINNY M. H. AYERS
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Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication for the Year Ended September 30, 1926
Henry Van Dyke
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True Worship
Albert F. Gilmore
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God's Pardon
Duncan Sinclair
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Justice and Mercy
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Bernard Joseph Hinkle, Emil Haupt, Herman P. Thomas, Walter Alfred Tanner
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Nearly four years ago, when I was very much discouraged,...
Marie Antoinette Legros-Barbe with contributions from Ernest Legros
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In the fall of 1916, after experiencing, as I believed,...
Olive A. DeCamp
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Eleven years ago I turned to Christian Science for physical...
Walsworth T. Dimmick
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I feel that the time has come for me to testify to the...
Harriet McKenzie
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For ten years I was an invalid, under the care of various...
Lelia B. Gregory
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"The redeemed should be happier than the elect," Mrs. Eddy...
Louise Eleanor Chapman
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About four years ago I received my first introduction to...
Louisa Elizabeth Gasson
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Christian Science is the "pearl of great price" to me,...
Gladys E. Smith
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Love Divine
THEODORE ALBERT SCHROEDER
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from E. M. Cotton, Canon Anthony C. Deane