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The Availability of Divine Mind
Christian Science has come to enable mankind to overcome its troubles by putting on the Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus." It teaches how to replace erroneous thinking by spiritual thinking, and so to achieve complete salvation from sickness and sin and progressively prove that the real man is the true image and likeness of God.
Mortals, however, may be well aware that they ought to think aright, that is, to reflect the Mind which is God, and yet feel insuperable difficulties in even commencing to practice spiritual thinking. One may feel his thinking to be so unlike the divine that he does not know how to take the first steps toward adjusting his thought to that which is true. From such a state, which mortals have been educated to regard as natural, may arise discouragement and hopelessness. One who remains passive under this belief of limited understanding, and accepts it as part of himself, may be constantly excusing himself from demonstrating spiritual dominion over some phase of false belief.
However recently he may have commenced to study, no earnest student of Christian Science need continue in this state of false belief; nor has he any valid excuse for so doing. He should know that spiritual understanding is not limited, and that his realization of this fact should therefore not be limited. It is merely false belief which claims that understanding is limited and that ignorance prevails. Ignorance is but the seeming absence of intelligence, and it vanishes as divine Mind is reflected. In the infinite realm of the real there is no place where ignorance or limitation could prevail.
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April 26, 1930 issue
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Praise and Thanksgiving
EDITH M. SHANK
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Church Building
HOWARD ROSS HAVILAND
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The Availability of Divine Mind
NEIL KENSINGTON ADAM
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Our Bible Lessons
MARTHA E. A. SOOST
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Expression not Repression
E. VIOLET J. DICKSEE
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The Talent Love Gives Us
MARJORIE D. STEVENS
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Joy
MARY PERHAM
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That a doctor "holds no disrespect for the spiritual phase...
Kellogg Patton, Committee on Publication for the State of Wisconsin,
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My attention has just been called to the interesting and...
Mrs. Agnata F. Butler, Committee on Publication for Cambridgeshire, England,
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I thank you for publishing my letter in the South China Morning Post...
William H. Adler, Committee on Publication for Hongkong, China,
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From the Field
Peter V. Ross
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To a Friend
ROBERT ELLIS KEY
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Principle and Law
Clifford P. Smith
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"First the blade"
Violet Ker Seymer
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Integrity
Duncan Sinclair
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The Lectures
with contributions from Alma K. Anderson
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Years ago, when I first heard of Christian Science through...
Lilian Elgiva Arranger
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"Healing physical sickness is the smallest part of Christian Science
Corinne Wright Harvey
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Ten years ago a friend persuaded me to attend a service...
Mary Nahm, Cleveland
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I wish to express my deep and sincere gratitude to God,...
Eleanor Putnam Sewall
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Before knowing of Christian Science, religion meant very...
Anna Emanuel Williams
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When I was a young child my father was wonderfully led...
Philip Lincoln Angell with contributions from Jorgine Angell Eakin
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With sincere gratitude I wish to tell of the many beautiful...
Helen Barbara McGowen
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Prompted by my recent healing I wish to express my...
Karl Brademann
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Love, the Healer
EVELINE T. G. WYBRANTS
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Dutton S. Peterson, William D. Maxwell, Marshall N. Gould, Granville Taylor, Joy Elmer Morgan, Ezra Allen Van Nuys