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In a sermon reported by the Gazette recently a minister is said to have included Christian Science under "religious cults and isms." Will you kindly give me space for a brief reply?
Webster defines the word "science" in part as follows: "Knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth." Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, answers the question, "How would you define Christian Science?" in her book "Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 1) as follows: "As the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony." And the question, "What is the Principle of Christian Science?" she answers thus (ibid.): "It is God, the Supreme Being, infinite and immortal Mind, the Soul of man and the universe. It is our Father which is in heaven. It is substance, Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love,—these are the deific Principle."
We agree with the clergyman that "Christian Science promises the way to good health, and that everybody wants that, so Christian Science has interest from the start." We also agree that if the church is to survive it must be useful. It was practical usefulness of the early Christian church which attracted the people's attention. When spiritually understood, there is no mystery in the teaching of our Master and Way-shower.
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February 28, 1942 issue
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"The maximum of good"
FRED YOULD
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Right Workers
TERESE ROSE NAGEL
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Ask God
JEANNE ROE PRICE
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The Command to Go Forward
CARRIE L. SELMEIER
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Patience, Faith, and Prayer
OLIVER MARBLE GALE
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Finding One's True Ambition
HAZEL R. HARRISON
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All Disease Is Curable
George Shaw Cook
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God Our Strength
Alfred Pittman
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The Lectures
with contributions from Edward Bignell, G. Leslie Lynch, Carl A. Risher, Ida Denny Wheeler
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Christian Scientists agree that...
Benson Tatham Woodhead, Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England,
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In a sermon reported by the...
Svend Pontoppidan Broby, Committee on Publication for the Province of Quebec, Canada,
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In a recent issue the term...
Benjamin F. Sage, Committee on Publication for the State of Kansas,
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I consider Christian Science the...
Martha M. Lundgren
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It is full time for me to express...
Katherine C. Dudley
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Having experienced so many...
Fred C. Hess
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It is with deep gratitude that I...
May W. Brandon
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For over thirty years Christian Science...
Aurilla Allyn Wright
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I want to give my testimony so...
Mary Orthober
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From a child I loved the truth...
Kate Rose Wall with contributions from Alfred L. Wall
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In the only textbook of Christian Science...
Helen L. Petzing
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When I first entered a Christian Science...
Mary P. Nichols with contributions from James Clark Nichols
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When I was a small child, my...
Walter G. Stanley
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This Day
SYDNEY KING RUSSELL
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Robert Hatch, Bernard Clausen, Herman N. Bundesen, Robert McCaslin, J. R. Love