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Christian Science Baptism
Many who are now Christian Scientists were associated formerly with churches where various forms, rites, and rituals constituted at least some part of the religious services. It has been a matter of surprise and wonderment that those who previously had been impressed by and had enjoyed ceremonial church worship now find a great degree of satisfaction and peace in the simple services held in Christian Science churches. The explanation lies in the fact that Christian Science preserves whatever is good in the former religious beliefs and practices of its students, and furnishes the true spiritual sense and substance of the truths symbolized in ceremonials and forms.
For instance, Mrs. Eddy's teachings stress the importance, yes, the necessity, of baptism in connection with Christian healing and happiness, with spiritual progress and prosperity. However, this is not the baptism of John, but of Jesus—that is, it is not physical, but metaphysical. In referring to the coming of Christ Jesus, John the Baptist said, "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire." And the beloved disciple, referring to immersion, wrote that "Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples." The Master was a scientific Christian, dealing with mental causes instead of physical effects as was shown in his healing and reformative works: the sick were healed and the sin-bound were released and reformed by the spiritual power which impelled and supported his denial of the wrong thoughts that lay back of the discordant manifestation. This was the baptism of the Holy Ghost, or the purification of thought by spiritual power and means.

March 18, 1933 issue
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Presence of Mind
GEORGE H. READ
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True Loving
LILLIAN B. WYAND
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A Joyous Occasion
MERRILL G. SCHIVELEY
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Evil Destitute of Origin
ELSIE C. WISE
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"Be ye separate"
HENRY DAVIS NADIG
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Vanishing Shadows
ELIZABETH G. MC KINSTRY
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Baptism
GERMAINE DESNOS
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"His beauty, power and grace"
MOLLIE ORR WALDRON
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The Lecture
THOMAS QUINN
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Your issue of March 4 contains a synopsis of an address...
Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager of Committees on Publication in Great Britain and Ireland,
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A correspondent insists that there is a law of suggestion
W. Truman Green, Committee on Publication for the State of Florida,
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Last week's Herald contained the story of a prisoner's...
Miss Maude A. Law, Committee on Publication for Barbados, British West Indies,
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The letter in Tuesday's Herald quotes from the Christian Science...
Arthur E. F. Court, Committee on Publication for the North Island of New Zealand,
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It is reliably reported to us that a St. Louis minister in a...
Roy E. Bignall, former Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri,
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Triumphing in Temptation
Violet Ker Seymer
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Christian Science Baptism
W. Stuart Booth
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Prices of Literature
Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society
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The Lectures
with contributions from Margaret M. Ellison
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It is with a very deep sense of gratitude and an earnest...
Walter F. Messiter
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I wish to give my testimony in gratitude to Christian Science...
Elsie M. Dickinson
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My earliest recollections as a child at home are of a...
Gladys M. Kayhoe
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The first time I attended a Christian Science church...
Lena H. Erwin
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With a heart full of gratitude I send this testimony to...
Mildred M. Row with contributions from Edward B. Row
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I wish to express my gratitude for the conviction of the...
Erma S. Goodstein
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I am indeed thankful for the joyous privilege of voicing...
Selma J. Smith
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It is with a deep sense of gratitude and joy that I express...
Delfin Goldsworthy
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Seeds of Love
CHRISTIANA WILLINK
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Pat McCormick, Frank M. Selover, W. Fay Butler, Roe Fulkerson, Luigi Turco