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On God's Side
The Christian Scientist has a great task before him as he strives to be constant in his allegiance to God, faithful to his highest understanding of divine Principle, steadfast in the application of his understanding to the various problems incidental to human experience. "Ye cannot serve God and mammon," said Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount. The Christian Scientist cannot be obedient to spiritual truth and to materiality at the same time. He cannot take the side of righteousness and condone the practice of evil. He dare not leave the pathway of good, narrow to mortal sense though it may sometimes seem, for the broad way of sinful thoughts actions. He whose understanding of real being is established abides in that understanding—remains on God's side.
Christian Science reveals God as the author of good, and of good alone. It discovers to men that since God is infinite good, evil has no real being, no reality. This means that Christian Science flatly contradicts the belief of mortals that sin, disease, death, and all other apparent forms of evil are real—teaching which is fundamental. It cannot be gainsaid, because to do so would be to deny that God is absolutely perfect. It is this teaching which the Christian Scientist has ever before him to be obeyed and demonstrated. It is obedience to this teaching which keeps him on God's side.
Mrs. Eddy writes on page 418 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Cast out all manner of evil. 'Preach the gospel to every creature.' Speak the truth to every form of error." That is what is expected of every faithful student of Christian Science. He must heal the sick and the sinning. He must wisely proclaim the truth to his fellow men when opportunity presents itself. He must declare the truth, silently or audibly, to every seeming activity of evil. What faithfulness, what consecration, this requires! But what a call there is upon him that it be done!
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February 23, 1935 issue
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The Commandments and the Beatitudes
WILLIAM P. MC KENZIE
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The Mountain Path
ALEXANDRA BOBRIKOVA CRICHTON
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Now
CARL J. PETERSON
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"Search the scriptures"
E. OLIVE DAVIS
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"An International Daily Newspaper"
P. HOWARD BARRINGER
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Peace
HELEN R. QUITZOW
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Our Right Place
DORA S. FETZER
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"In every thing give thanks"
LORENE H. TROUSDALE
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A vicar is reported in a recent issue of your paper as...
Mrs. Winifred M. Hartley, Committee on Publication for Staffordshire, England.
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As a Christian Scientist I wish to thank you for the article...
Frank K. Poe, Committee on Publication for the State of Maryland,
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Our Master
ELLA A. STONE
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On God's Side
Duncan Sinclair
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Workers Wanted
W. Stuart Booth
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From the Directors
The Christian Science Board Of Directors
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The Lectures
with contributions from Weltha G. Seide, Alfred Hubert Beere
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My first introduction to Christian Science was hearing...
James W. Cusack
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With a sense of deepest gratitude I should like to give my...
Lucy S. Shelley
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In September, 1932, I was taken with rheumatism,...
August Bielig
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Of the many Scriptural texts inscribed upon the walls...
Henry Maxwell Paul
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Christian Science has changed my whole life, and I want...
Salla Welander
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About seven years ago one of my knees became swollen
Helen Motchan
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I first turned to Christian Science at the end of the World...
Mildred O. Eiloart
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Forever in His Care
ELIZABETH SADDORIS MC CARTY
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from James Bryant Conant, A Correspondent, H. R. L. Sheppard, D. M. Panton, Joseph Fort Newton