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From Letters, Substantially as Published
Under the heading "Medical Notes" in Saturday's Star...
Auckland Star
Under the heading "Medical Notes" in Saturday's Star appeared a very interesting article entitled, "What is Disease?" In the first paragraph the writer made the following reference to Christian Science: "What is disease? The Christian Scientist reasons that it is the result of sin." This is not quite accurate, and I therefore ask permission to correct it. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the Christian Science textbook, Mary Baker Eddy says on page 411, "The procuring cause and foundation of all sickness is fear, ignorance, or sin." Clearly, disease must be contrary to God's law, or Jesus, who came to fulfill that law, would not have gone about continually destroying disease, nor have gone about continually destroying disease, nor have commanded all those who believe in him to do the same. How hopeless is the outlook of ordinary medical practice may be judged from the following statement in the article: "We have as much hope of reducing the general incidence of disease as of controlling the weather." After nearly two thousand years of investigation of the nature of disease, such an admission seems to point to the fact that the research must have been made along wrong lines, and that it is in the mental realm that investigations must be conducted in order to discover the source of disease. Some day, men of research will give the same devotion to the study of spiritual power that they have already given to the study of physical force, and then real progress in the destruction of disease will be registered. May I close with another quotation, from page 233 of the book already mentioned: "Ye who can discern the face of the sky,—the sign material,—how much more should ye discern the sign mental, and compass the destruction of sin and sickness by overcoming the thoughts which produce them, and by understanding the spiritual idea which corrects and destroys them. To reveal this truth was our Master's mission to all mankind, including the hearts which rejected him."
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December 14, 1935 issue
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Keep Rowing!
LOUISE KNIGHT WHEATLEY COOK
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Security on "the Rock of Christ"
RALPH W. CROSMAN
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Safety in Right Thinking
GRACE BANKS SAMMONS
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Seeking Higher Ground
ELIZABETH G. MC KINSTRY
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Confidence
OLIVER BOWLES
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Angels Bring Release
JEANNE LA TOUR
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Ushering
EDWARD H. PORTER
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Telling the Story
ELEANOR BRADLEY
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Unwinding the Snarls
EDITH SHAW BROWN
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Under the heading "Medical Notes" in Saturday's Star...
Arthur E. F. Court, Committee on Publication for the North Island of New Zealand,
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In your last issue a correspondent quotes a number of...
B. Tatham Woodhead, former Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England,
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Stavangeren of November 27 contains a report of a lecture...
Nils Lerche, Committee on Publication for Norway,
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A cartoon in your November issue, which does an injustice...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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Exposing a "bald imposition"
Duncan Sinclair
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Authorized Literature
George Shaw Cook
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The Lectures
with contributions from Emma E. Wiesner, Violet Chapman, Arthur Maitland Crosthwaite, Alice M. Minskey, Grace G. Pierce, William M. White, Andrew J. Graham
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For seventeen years I have relied solely on Christian Science...
Olive May Harrison
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Several years ago I suffered from many forms of discord...
Bess Patterson
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Many years ago I heard a preacher say, "The kingdom...
Albert Whitelock with contributions from Stuart G. Gilmour
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I am especially grateful for the healing of a severe burn,...
Glenore D. Caton
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As a youth I was deeply interested in religion and tried...
John J. Mogridge
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I wish to express something of the gratitude I feel that...
Harvey J. Darroch
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In 1918 I became interested in Christian Science through...
Maggie Long Stingley
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Since 1928 Christian Science has been my only physician
Bessie M. E. Cox with contributions from John F. Cox
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What Do Ye More Than These?
ELSIE HILL AINSWORTH
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas Wilson Dickert, L. Sylvester Lewis, Winfred Rhoades, Speight