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Correcting False Concepts
Children attending the Christian Science Sunday School from their earliest years have the unique privilege of gaining the correct understanding of God and of man, and of learning the spiritual meaning of the Scriptures. But often the adult beginner in the study of Christian Science may find that numerous misinterpretations of the Bible must be corrected, and that many of his preconceived beliefs and notions concerning the nature of God must be discarded and eradicated from thought.
Many familiar texts, thundered from old-time pulpits, have struck fear and consternation into sensitive childish hearts, leaving deep impressions of a God of wrath and vengeance watching from a great white throne to punish every youthful misdeed. And oftentimes these impressions have remained firmly embedded in thought throughout the years. However, when the light of Christian Science is thrown upon the Bible, through the inspired words of our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and her other writings, it is with relief and joy that we begin to discern the true nature of God as Love, Truth, Life, Principle, unchanging and unchangeable, and not as a sort of potentate administering both good and evil.
The well-known text from Galatians, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap," has, from childhood on, conveyed to many the thought of punishment for wrongdoing, and nothing more. With the fuller interpretation gained through the unfoldment of Truth in our understanding, does it not also mean to us the sure reaping or reward for right sowing or thinking expressed in better health, more harmony, peace, and supply? For if a man sows thoughts of love, peace, gratitude, joy, shall he not gather the harvest of so doing? Indeed St. Paul, immediately after the words already quoted, said, "Let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."
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November 6, 1937 issue
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Temperance
DELLA M. WHITNEY
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Freedom from Discouragement
EARL E. DAMIN
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Correcting False Concepts
ELIZABETH ADLAM
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Spiritual Character-Building
FRED B. KERRICK
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"The warfare with one's self"
LILA P. BASEL
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Love and Business
HANS HERZBERG
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Gaining the Correct View
MURIEL NELLIS HOLLAND
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Demonstration
LYMAN S. ABBOTT
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"Peace, be still"
ELSIE RAMSEY CURTIN
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In his address, as reported in your issue of April 10, a...
Lieut. Col. Robert E. Key, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
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In an article in Gads Magasin of January are some statements...
Valdemar Willumsen, Committee on Publication for Denmark,
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In the March 26th issue of your paper there appeared a...
Charles G. McAron, Committee on Publication for the State of Virginia,
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Many Christian denominations today are recognizing the...
Miss Maude A. Law, Committee on Publication for Barbados, British West Indies,
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Sanctuary
LAURA BROWN CROWELL
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In addressing you today I realize I am speaking to an...
Extracts from an Address delivered by B. Palmer Lewis at Columbia University, Harkness Academic Theater,
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"Man is the expression of God's being"
Duncan Sinclair
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Disposition or Temperament
George Shaw Cook
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Notices
with contributions from The Christian Science Board Of Directors
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The Lectures
with contributions from Albert Espey
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When I first heard of Christian Science it was the word...
Gustav Möglestue
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At the time I began to study Christian Science I was...
Jean C. Entriken
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I have countless reasons for being grateful beyond...
Lorena Belle Hanks
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About three years ago I became ill with gallstones and...
Auguste Nawrazala
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I wish to express my appreciation for Christian Science
Isador Claman
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In the fall of 1908 I found myself in what seemed to be...
Kathrina D. Haines
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Christian Science came to me when I was looking for a...
Margery Austin
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From early childhood I suffered a great deal from nervousness...
Stanley E. Mahanna
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The Potter
ELIZABETH PRICE
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Secretary of State Hull, W. L. Mackenzie King, Mark F. Sanborn