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Truth's Liberating Sentence
Broadly speaking, an individual accepts Truth's sentence of freedom or else mortal mind's verdict of bondage, and the nature of his acceptance determines the nature of his earthly experience.
From the lips of the Psalmist comes this utterance filled with blessedness and reassurance for all who understand it and make it their own: "Let my sentence come forth from thy presence." The sentence coming forth from the presence of God is in perfect accord with the nature of God and the harmony of man. The presence and sentence of God stand for the health, strength, and purity which are immune from diminution, defilement, or destruction. In actual spiritual fact, the divine sentence alone is real, and its effect in human experience is liberating.
Certain utterances in the Old Testament throw light on this question. In Proverbs, for instance, it is written, "A divine sentence is in the lips of the king." Interpreted in its highest sense, this passage may be taken to refer to the sentence of God, omnipotent divine Principle, whose government of the spiritual universe and man is supreme, unquestioned. Through Christian Science this divine sentence of spiritual perfection and harmony has been made available to humanity, stricken as it often seems to be with various forms of discord appearing gradually or suddenly and claiming to be chronic or intermittent.
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August 28, 1937 issue
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"The affluence of our God"
LYMAN S. ABBOTT
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"Mind is the natural stimulus"
AMANDA COLBATH
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What Are You Withholding?
JAMES IRVING BURGESS
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Serenity
LA RUE M. HODGES
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Teaching and Exemplifying
CLARA M. SCHMITT
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The Supremacy of Spirit
GORDON WILLIAM FLOWER
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"To 'act in the living present'"
E. OLIVE DAVIS
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Recompense
PEGGY YOUNG CLARK
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The thoughtful consideration which a correspondent gave...
C. Augustus Norwood, Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts, in the
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At the mention of world peace, thought turns with sympathy...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California, in the
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A local Member of Parliament, in your issue of December...
Miss Ellen Graham, Committee on Publication for Lanarkshire, Scotland, in the
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Morning Light
FRANCIS BALDWIN
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Our True Selfhood
Duncan Sinclair
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Truth's Liberating Sentence
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Edwin B. Hundley, Mary E. Winston, Dwight W. Sleeper, Myrtle Bradford, Payson Gregory, James Edward Williamson, Elizabeth Hartman
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I wish to express my gratitude for the many blessings we...
Henrietta V. Irimescu
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I have been interested in Christian Science for many...
George S. Bartels
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My little daughter, four years old, was suffering with...
Eva Lyons with contributions from Phyllis Lyons
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All my life I have loved the Bible, and have tried to...
Leila Mae Gilkey
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I am most joyfully and profoundly grateful for Christian Science
Edith Mary Howard
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It gives me great joy to testify concerning the comforting...
Lillian Mather Lathrop
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My parents became interested in Christian Science before...
Ruth Hale Deam
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"The flaming sword"
ALMA G. V. HARRISON
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Edwin Percival, Alfred Grant Walton, Canon H. R. L. Sheppard, John M. Versteeg