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Science Satisfies
[Written Especially for Young People]
Christian Science stills all longings and dissolves all temptations. The human sense of existence is a state of desire, the desire for something which this sense cannot procure: completeness. According to this sense man is a material person, a limited mind enclosed in a perishable body. Hence the longing, the temptation, the dissatisfaction.
By revealing God as the source of all truth and reality, Christian Science proclaims that we are not to reckon ourselves "of the earth, earthy." The true and real man, the only man, finds his origin and existence in that which is Truth and reality. As Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, states in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 475) concerning man, "He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas."
Man is the full manifestation of the complete source, infinite good, which is all-inclusive. Consequently, man is a state of absolute completeness and of full spiritual satisfaction. Man has nothing to desire. Whatever could be humanly desired, is already divinely provided for in man—the true idea of God. To look for satisfaction to something materially outside, is to look for it in the wrong direction. When we realize that satisfaction is an idea which man spiritually includes, it will be found always within. That is why Christ Jesus declared, "The kingdom of God is within you."
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November 1, 1941 issue
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Claiming Victory
DOROTHY MARY HUTCHINGS
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"The panoply of Love"
THOMAS L. LEISHMAN
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"Could ye not watch ... one hour?"
GLADYS MAY CARNEY
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Taking Away "the trammels"
HENRY K. TURNBULL
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As a Little Child
L. Elizabeth Anderson
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Science Satisfies
HENDRIK J. DE LANGE
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A Christian Science period in the Columbia "Church of...
Norman E. John
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Impartial Love
EDNA J. PHILLIPS
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No Shortages in Divine Mind
George Shaw Cook
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Influence
Evelyn F. Heywood
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The Lectures
with contributions from E. Eloise Prickett
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With a more than grateful heart, I want to add my...
Evalyn Burdette
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We wish to submit the following testimony regarding...
Edgar C. Newall, Evah Hadley Newall
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My first healing in Christian Science was of tuberculosis...
Ila Herring Godbold
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It is with a heart filled with joy and gratitude that I write...
Mabel L. Isaacson
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For a long time I have been desirous of acknowledging...
Emma S. Sayles
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One of the many blessings that have come to me through...
Sylva Gray Surratt
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It has long been my desire to express my gratitude for...
Katherine F. Wheeler
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Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath...
Elza Stephens Graham
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God Careth for Thee
ANTOINETTE HOLBROOK
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from James Murchison Duncan, Ernest R. Palen, Edward Mott, Roger Babson