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Life Is the Light of Men
[Original article in German]
Every thoughtful reader of the Bible finds in the first chapter of John's Gospel a convincing statement as to the appearing of Christ, Truth, and the spiritual origin of man. There he reads: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ... All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. ... That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world."
Christ Jesus established proof of this fact in every direction. To him there was but one divine Life in all its perfection and completeness. He never acknowledged as real so-called inherited traits or diseases. Beyond material appearances he saw the child of God, who draws upon God's abundance fully and completely by reason of his sonship. How keenly and authoritatively, for instance, he enlightened his disciples when they asked him about the cause of the congenital blindness of a certain man! "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him," he declared.
For how many centuries have men interpreted this saying to mean that God laid this burden of blindness upon the man, so that afterward Christ Jesus could heal him! How unintelligible and incomprehensible is such a belief! We are under lasting obligation to Mary Baker Eddy for revealing the light of spiritual understanding, which no longer permits us to ascribe inconsistency and cruelty to God. On page 485 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," we read, "If the unimportant and evil appear, only soon to disappear because of their uselessness or their iniquity, then these ephemeral views of error ought to be obliterated by Truth." Jesus obliterated this ephemeral view of evil for those who were receptive to the light of Truth and were ready to be healed by it. Christian Science does the same thing. It insists that God made man free, and that evil is unknown to God and His man.
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February 18, 1939 issue
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Superior to Environment
FRANK S. VERNON
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Unfaltering Activity
BEATRICE CLAYTON
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Maintaining a High Standard of Living
NATALIE G. FORCE
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Relation with the Divine
CHARLES VAN PELT HARLEY
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World Advancement and Individual Spiritual Growth
ISABEL CRAWFORD
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Life Is the Light of Men
EMMA K. FÜHRER
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"Order is heaven's first law"
FLORENCE I. EDWARDS
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Security
LEAH BOHN
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There is much in a lecture reported in a recent issue with...
John Lingard, Committee on Publication for Midlothian, Scotland,
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A recent issue contains a contributor's comments on a...
Aaron E. Brandt, former Committee on Publication for the State of Pennsylvania,
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Kindly grant me space to reply to some remarks regarding...
George H. Kitendaugh, Committee on Publication for Jamaica, British West Indies,
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Addresses under the auspices of Committees on Publication...
with contributions from W. R. R
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The Straight and Narrow Way
Violet Ker Seymer
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Cause and Cure of Disease
George Shaw Cook
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The Lectures
with contributions from Earl Baldwin Thomas, Grace E. Kohlmeier
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About six years ago, I became acquainted with Christian Science
Anna Dorothea Ellerbruch Lafrentz
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For years I had been satisfied with the theory, held by...
Margaret I. Eakins
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"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness...
Leonard V. Walker
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To God; to Christ Jesus, our Way-shower; and to our...
Dorothea F. Lang
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One of the richest experiences that has come into my...
Marion S. Kelly
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Frequently I have been uplifted and inspired by the...
Mabel S. Block
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He Healed Them All
HELEN M. HEALY
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Elmer Walker, Harold A. Bedient, W. F. Reynolds, James Reid, Roy L. Smith, Henry Graass