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Witnessing to Truth, not to Error
IN the forty-third chapter of Isaiah, verse ten, these words occur: "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord: ... before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me." The prophet, in the name of the Lord, thus sought to emphasize the truth of the one God, the one living and true God. Later, Christ Jesus did the same, demanding of men that they love God supremely. In our own time, Christian Science—the discovery of Mary Baker Eddy—declares anew the fact of God's oneness, God's allness; affirms His omnipresence and omnipotence, and proclaims the altogether lovable and perfect nature of the Most High. "Before me there was no God formed"—God has always been. "Neither shall there be after me"—God will always be. The infinite One never had a beginning, and never will have an end. God is "from everlasting to everlasting."
It is spiritual sense which bears witness to God's allness and supremacy. And all are endowed with spiritual sense. On the other hand, it is material sense, so called, which would deny the truth of God's allness, omnipresence, and omnipotence, deny even that God exists. This false sense can take not the least cognizance of Deity; it is utterly blind to Spirit and spiritual realities. It witnesses only to matter and material phenomena, the things that are temporal. Mrs. Eddy writes on page 298 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "What is termed material sense can report only a mortal temporary sense of things, whereas spiritual sense can bear witness only to Truth."
Mortals, deluded by material sense, believe that matter is real and that it has sensation. And this error, when entertained and not rebuked, results in sin. Sensuousness in all its forms is the inevitable result of indulgence in the belief that matter has sensation; that it has power to bestow pleasure and to inflict pain. How then can sin be mastered? Mrs. Eddy states the method in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 67), where she says, "In the ratio that the testimony of material personal sense ceases, sin diminishes, until the false claim called sin is finally lost for lack of witness." Thus, to become free from sin, to be sinless, one must cease witnessing to material sense, cease believing in and bearing testimony to the lie that matter is real and has power to bestow pleasure or pain.
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May 6, 1933 issue
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God Careth for You
THOMAS C. HOLLINGSHEAD
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A Lesson from Trees
ADELAIDE ROGERS CALKINS
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Orderly Employment
ROLAND S. BISHOP
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Building through Spiritual Understanding
FANNIE B. TAYLOR
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Examinations
LAURA SHERREN MC CLURG
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More Spirituality Needed
LOUIS J. ELIAS
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A Spring Basket of Loving Thoughts
ANNA S. RAYNOLDS
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Your issue of March 19 contains a letter criticizing Christian Science...
Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
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A clergyman recently broadcast a sermon from your...
Robert C. Humphrey, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia, in a radiocast from Station WGST,
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Witnessing to Truth, not to Error
Duncan Sinclair
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Hiding: False and True
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Ada McConnell, Irwin D. Landis, Angie Chaffee
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I should like to express my gratitude for all the help I...
Mary Pettapiece
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"In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my...
E. Grace Leigh
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When Jesus made his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the...
Eva F. Scarpino
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It is with much gratitude that I give testimony to the...
Frederick Elvy
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It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I write this testimony...
Martha Dill with contributions from Herman J. Dill
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Paul wrote, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your...
Inez H. Whiting
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For over eleven years, when I have applied Christian Science...
Camilla S. Fish
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"Freely ye have received, freely give."
Gertrude L. Thomas
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It is from a sense of deep appreciation for the good that...
Leicester LeMont Jackson
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Teach Me, I Pray
PEARL B. PERSONS
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from A. J. Burgoyne, Roy L. Smith, Charles A. Forbes