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[Arthur E. Blainey, Committee on Publication for Ontario, Canada, in the Daily Star, Toronto]
Recently two correspondents, one writing in your issue of...
Recently two correspondents, one writing in your issue of June 8 and the other on June 13, inaccurately and inadequately made use of a statement from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I am sufficiently solicitous for the welfare of your readers to correct possible misunderstandings of the quotation referred to, which when correctly quoted in full reads: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual" (p. 468). As is readily apparent, Mrs. Eddy, the author of the foregoing statement, known as "the scientific statement of being," here gives definite reasons for, and definite conclusions reached by, her statement regarding the spiritual facts of being.
Without any desire to enter the controversy, I would refer briefly to the conclusion drawn by "Justruth," who, after quoting in part the statement above referred to, proceeded to explain, "In other words, all within the knowledge or consciousness of man are mere illusions." Need I add that this is not the teaching of Christian Science? Mrs. Eddy's teaching, based on Scriptural authority, conclusively presents the facts that all within the consciousness of the real man— the image and likeness of God—is not mere illusion but positive spiritual truth. Many so-called human beliefs are undoubtedly mere illusions, and thus comprise a mortal, temporary sense of things; but there is a wide divergence between false belief and positive truth. Fortunately, the conclusion of the whole matter is adequately and definitely presented by Christ Jesus in his terse and irrefutable statement, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing." This fact was undoubtedly clearly understood by Paul when he wrote, "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."
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November 23, 1929 issue
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Thanksgiving Proclamation
Herbert Hoover
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Fruition
JEAN S. FREEDLANDER
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"In every thing give thanks"
RICHARDS WOOLFENDEN
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The Spiritual Sanctuary
SAMUEL FREDERICK SWANTEES
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Sacrifice, the Price of Freedom
MARGARET W. DYER
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Our Daily Rate
MABEL R. PLATO
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On Being Impersonal
GEORGENE L. MILLER
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Little Things
ZITA LOUISE BAKER
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Desire
ELIZABETH G. W. PETTIT
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Thanksgiving
Albert F. Gilmore
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Lowliness and Peace
Violet Ker Seymer
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Giving Thanks to God
Duncan Sinclair
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To the Field
with contributions from Edward A. Merritt, William R. Rathvon, Annie M. Knott, George Wendell Adams, Charles E. Heitman, The Christian Science Board of Directors
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Thirteen years ago I was wretched over the condition of a...
Fae S. Humbarger with contributions from Fanchon S. Carter
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I am sincerely grateful that I gained some knowledge of...
Florence Bruce
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I became interested in Christian Science in 1917...
John Wesley Ashley
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When my youngest child was eight months old she fell...
Ella M. Schwarz
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When Christian Science was introduced to me, I had for...
Sarah Hannah Sellers
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In 1901 Christian Science was presented to me by my...
Lillian Greer Bush
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I wish to acknowledge what Christian Science has done...
Dorothea Anna Bullerman
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I was healed of pneumonia and hemorrhage of the lungs...
Thomas Robinson
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Gratitude
EDITH L. PERKINS
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There is no quality which is more of a life preserver to the...
Halford E. Luccock,
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In our prayers of thanksgiving this week let us thank God...
Rev. Eugene R. Shippen, D.D.,