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Turning from Person to Principle
Probably one of the most arresting injunctions that a student of Christian Science receives is the admonition to turn his thought away from person to Principle. And how many have thoughtfully questioned within themselves what is meant by this turning to Principle, and what advantage is thereby gained!
Personal sense argues that our happiness depends on person; that our supply is dependent on person, or on the favorable opinion of some person; and that our sense of companionship is dependent upon the presence of our friends.
Christian Science reveals God to be divine Principle. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," on page 465, Mary Baker Eddy asks, "Is there more than one God or Principle?" And she answers this question by saying (pp. 465, 466): "There is not. Principle and its idea is one, and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Being, and His reflection is man and the universe."
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September 28, 1940 issue
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The Grand Warfare
GEORGE H. READ
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Turning from Person to Principle
MARGARET HORN
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"The wheels of reason"
MARGUERITE SCOTT TILL
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Undisturbed
JOHN WHITE
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The Right Mental Attitude
ALICE D. WESTON
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"By the word of their testimony"
LOUISA MAY WHINNOM
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Packing Our Knapsacks
EUNICE H. DIZER
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Arise and Walk
ROBERT ELLIS KEY
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A Christian Science period in the "Columbia West Coast...
Floyd C. Shank
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"Real consciousness"
George Shaw Cook
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Security
Evelyn F. Heywood
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The Lectures
with contributions from Jessie L. Sanders
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Over twenty years ago I was suffering from a fibrous...
Charlotte MacFarland
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I should like to take this opportunity to express my sincere...
Alexander Blackie
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For more than thirty years Christian Science has been my...
Pauline W. Derby
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Many blessings have come to me through Christian Science,...
Elsie E. Rothman
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I first heard of Christian Science over twenty-five years...
Laura K. Owens
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When I think of conditions as they seemed to me when...
Helen Edwards with contributions from Frank W. Edwards
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I attended a Christian Science Sunday School from early...
Kathryn Van Scoyoc
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Our family first became interested in Christian Science...
Lester B. Haley
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In Psalms we read: "He brought me up also out of an...
Helen Clara Smith
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Deeds, Not Words
F. MILDRED RICKMAN
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from May M. Arbuthnot, Robert F. Pfeiffer, Donald M. Chappel, G. H. Wright, Robert H. Harper, Charles R. Smith