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Avoiding Faultfinding
On page 107 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy says, "Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin." It fails to see the whole of error, and tends to conceive what it does see of it to be either pleasurable or troublesome reality, calling evil good and good iniquitous. It minimizes and excuses faults in a friend, while it magnifies and condemns these same faults in an enemy. It suffers the agonies of self-condemnation because of its own faults, and of self-righteousness because of the faults of others. Because the true righteousness of Christ Jesus was in excess of their own, the Pharisees in self-defense must have his virtue condemned as a fault. Because he recognized that the individual who is conscious of his sin is more readily healed of it than the one who refuses to see and acknowledge it, they would have him accounted the "friend of publicans and sinners," in the sense that he was in sympathy with their sins rather than their Saviour from sin.
Christian Science reveals the intricacies and subtleties of invisible sin, and strips it bare of every disguise. Faults become visible which before were invisible. Every thought which is not of God, which does not accord infinity to Him, immortal Mind, is seen to be an offense against Deity. When Christ Jesus said, "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God," he uncovered the conceit and deceit of the claim of so-called mortal goodness, and dealt it a vital blow.

December 3, 1927 issue
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Church Work
MARJORIE SHULER
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Avoiding Faultfinding
CHARLES H. RING
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Spontaneity and Inspiration
PAULINE JEFFERY
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True Friendship
ETHEL L. SARGENT
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Love One Another
HAROLD BOARDMAN
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Our Daily Prayer
MARY L. BURCH
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Paul and Silas
FREDERICK STARR CAMPBELL
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A contributor writing for your recent issue, under the...
Hugh Stuart Campbell, Committee on Publication for the State of Illinois,
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The answer in the United Churchman to a letter regarding...
Miss Jean A. Danskin, Committee on Publication for the Province of New Brunswick, Canada,
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Your comments in a recent issue of your paper upon an...
Edgar McLeod, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
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In an article on "Mind Healing" appearing in your paper,...
Cyril R. Hewson, Committee on Publication for Derbyshire, England,
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The Prodigal Son
HAZEL HARPER HARRIS
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Spiritual Ascendancy
Albert F. Gilmore
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"Followers of God"
Duncan Sinclair
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Gentleness and Greatness
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Eleonore Blumhardt, Marian Cass, Wheeler Coy
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I should like to say how very grateful I am for Christian Science
Kate A. Milne with contributions from Alexander S. Milne
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In the fall of 1921 one of our sons, a lad at school, developed...
Agnes E. Lafferty
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My heart is filled with gratitude and love to God for the...
Marie Louise Maxwell
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I am grateful for this opportunity to tell of some of the...
Mattie E. Davis
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In July, 1915, when Christian Science was brought to my...
C. Edward Leffler
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The desire to express my gratitude in every available...
Marietta Heger
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Thirty-five years ago I became very ill
Isabella Higgins
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When a young child I was healed through Christian Science...
Uytendale Hall Foley
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Our Father-Mother
CORA D. PAINE
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Charles Alexander Richmond, Coolidge