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Here and Now
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches the ever-presence and availability of infinite good. It teaches how an understanding of this availability may be acquired by all. Perhaps one of the greatest impediments to the demonstration of this Science is the mortal tendency to look to the future or to dwell on the past. In the absolute truth there is naught but the ever present now.
In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 469) Mrs. Eddy's statement, "If Life ever had a beginning, it would also have an ending," makes clear the fact that for every object in His creation to have either a beginning or an ending would necessarily place a limitation on God. Since God is infinite, all good, all Life, Truth, and Love, man as His reflection is cognizant of nothing but His qualities and His attributes. The belief in a past or a future is but an error of human consciousness, which an understanding of Truth must eradicate. It belongs to the false or counterfeit mind, the last vestige of which must disappear, that divine Mind's reflection alone may be seen as real.
The realization that perfection is the present status of real being is essential to the demonstration of perfection. While it is necessary and desirable that mortals should hold ideal concepts as the goal for which to strive, their attainment must be regarded as taking place in the present. Likewise, dwelling in thought upon the so-called "better times" of the past, or upon past mistakes which are regarded as lost opportunities, gives the appearance of reality to limitations, and this precludes a present consciousness of perfection. Only through this consciousness of the present perfection of God and man is the true realization of Life obtainable. Between thoughts which dwell unduly on the past and those which dwell on the future, the present consciousness of all good would be held in suspense. Merely to hope for or anticipate the attainment of perfection is to admit that it is not now a reality. The utility of any scientific rule or corollary thereof rests upon the recognition and acknowledgement that it is true now. In order that we may prove the rule two and two equals four to be of value, we must know that it is true now, even as it was in times gone by and will be throughout the future.
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May 27, 1933 issue
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According to His Ability
GERTRUDE E. PHIPPS
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Here and Now
THOMAS H. MATTERS, JR.
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Giving versus Withholding
CAROLINE V. LANGWORTHY
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Continuing Church Building
ALBERT TOMLINSON
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Conquering Sin
VIVIAN COOTER
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The Song of Work
MARY L. ALLEN
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Success at School and College
HENRY E. ASHMUN
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Security
F. INA BURGESS
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The reply to my previous letter is not one that calls...
Charles H. Parker, Committee on Publication for the County of Cheshire, England,
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A contributer to your column of "Opinions" made this...
George Channing, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
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My attention has been called to an interesting column...
Daniel A. Scott, Committee on Publication for the State of Kansas,
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In a recent issue a contributor to your newspaper, discussing...
Joseph G. Alden, Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,
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Christian Science declares that erring human will-power...
Count Helmuth von Moltke, Committee on Publication for Germany,
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"Song knows no border line"
An appreciation of Mary Baker Eddy as poet and hymn-writer, by the Rev. T. M. Patterson,
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Humility and Gratitude
Duncan Sinclair
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The Better Way
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Aimee Lundgren, Ruth C. Marthaler, Florence E. Starr, C. A. Carr, Harry D. Heiby, Charles Cleland Phillips, Geraldine Hubbard Hooper, Annie Tennant McConnell, Clara M. Hudspeth
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I should like to express my gratitude for what Christian Science...
Willie E. Johnson
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I am indeed most grateful for Christian Science and for...
Lida R. Hoffman
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Christian Science was first brought to my notice in 1925,...
Jacobus G. N. Strauss
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For a number of years before becoming interested in...
Olive S. Elson
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I have received many blessings, both morally and physically,...
Isabel E. Bacon
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From an earnest heart full of love to God and my neighbor...
Mary Vail Stockton Walker
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Awakening
MURIEL E. WOODRUFF
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Wayne S. Snoddy, Jesse Isador Straus, James Reid, R. O. Lawton, T. J. S. Ferguson, H. R. H.