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Evil a Mirage
ON page 14 of her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 Mrs. Eddy says, "We regard evil as a lie, an illusion, therefore as unreal as a mirage that misleads the traveller on his way home."
A fuller meaning of these words was brought home to the writer while crossing an extensive American desert. As the train forged ahead at full speed, there suddenly appeared a broad expanse of water, its waves rippling in the bright sunlight. All eyes were immediately fixed upon it and the water looked convincingly real. Yet the conductor, speaking with authority, pointed out that it was a mirage. To one passenger at least, although the mirage continued for a considerable time, it was seen to be without either foundation or claim to reality.
When the truth of Christian Science dawns upon the receptive thought,—the truth that God is infinite, ever present good, that He made all and is All, and that there is no other cause or creator,—evil is seen to be an illusion. Then although, according to the testimony of the material senses, it may still seem to remain in evidence, to the awakened consciousness it has been bereft of its claim to reality.
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October 12, 1929 issue
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Wrestlings
ANNIE M. KNOTT
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Earnest Study
HARRY E. DE LASAUX
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Builders
IDA MARIA HANSON
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Evil a Mirage
ELIZABETH ANNIE HODGSON
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"Joy and health"
JESSIE BENNETT
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True Service
BERT V. ROBINSON
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The Rainbow
ESTHER BRINTON
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Your readers must be grateful for the tolerance shown by...
Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
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Recent issues of Emanu-El have contained some interesting...
Edgar McLeod, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
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In a recent issue of your paper, you quote from an address...
John T. Ferry, Committee on Publication for Western Australia,
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A report of the lecture by a doctor purporting to be on...
David A. Giel, Committee on Publication for Holland,
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A letter printed in the February 16 issue of your paper,...
J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,
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"Blessed are they that mourn"
MYRTLE DUNN
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Class Teaching
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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Sound Business
Albert F. Gilmore
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Verity
Violet Ker Seymer
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Healing, a Christian Duty
Duncan Sinclair
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Christian Science came to me with its healing light more...
Dorothy Lloyd Johns
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When Christian Science was brought to my notice thirteen...
Marie C. E. Rabus
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From my earliest recollection I was troubled with a weak...
Mary E. Austin
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For many years I was a hopeless invalid
Mary Ellen Rodgers
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I am indeed most grateful for the many blessings and...
Andrew Fuller Crane
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Twelve years ago Christian Science came to me, bringing...
Estelle Vilette Page
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The first time I saw the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...
Mary C. Andersen
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Arise and Shine
NELLIE C. LLOYD
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from James Harold More, George Matthew Adams, Ralph Temple, Hugh Thomson Kerr, James Moffatt