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The Mortal Dream Is Untrue
Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 250): "Now I ask, Is there any more reality in the waking dream of mortal existence than in the sleeping dream? There cannot be, since whatever appears to be a mortal man is a mortal dream."
The unreal testimony of mortal sense and the remedy for belief in it were illustrated to a student of Christian Science by the following experience. One night, in a dream, a woman had a vivid sense of stumbling and falling on a railroad track. Glancing down the track she saw an express train rapidly approaching. With eyes riveted on the train, she became immobile with fear and horror. Even as the ground underneath was trembling, she found herself saying, "If only I could get up!" But a mesmeric fear deprived her of the ability to move.
With great effort, in the dream, she closed her eyes and turned in prayer to God. She declared the truth about the harmony and safety of God's kingdom. She acknowledged that God endowed man, His image and likeness, with the qualities of unfettered Mind; that there was no power apart from God to deprive man of existence in His perfect universe of ideas; and that God gives the ability to do right, here and now. The interesting result was that, according to her dream, she walked off the railroad tracks in good time; and then she awoke, perfectly calm and composed. How grateful she was that even in the night dream her thought had turned to Truth and found blessed relief!
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July 18, 1942 issue
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True Security
WILL B. DAVIS
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Spiritual Substance
IRENE KENT
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The Mortal Dream Is Untrue
MARGET HEYDEBRUCH
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Awake!
STANLEY WELTY
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Home
ELEANOR ANNIE EVELYN TRYDELL
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Progressive Demonstration
ROBERT J. HIGHLAND
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"God in His wisdom will test all mankind"
JANET M. BRANIN
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Power
Evelyn F. Heywood
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Facts Concerning Victory
Alfred Pittman
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The Lectures
with contributions from Jennie D. Todd, Caroline Sophie Mulhearn, Catherine M. Rankin, Stella Beatrice Schabner, Philip H. C. Slater, Albert Warren Ambler, Erma M. Hogue, Max J. Simon
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A Christian Science period in...
James W. Fulton
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Quietness
HALLIE S. BIXBY
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Sunday School Notes and Comments
with contributions from Herbert Welch
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"And God said, Let there be...
Ruth Bumba
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It is from a deep sense of gratitude...
Rosalind Letitia Hoyle
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I am always very grateful for...
Walter Weiler, Jr.
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"God is Love" was the first...
Maude Campbell Douglas
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Words are inadequate to express...
Marion D. Raymond with contributions from Chester C. Raymond
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For all the encouragement and...
Flora E. Lunam
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Many years ago, finding myself...
Orsina Gray Thompson
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Christian Science Rest Room for the Forces
EDGAR ISAAC NEWGASS
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General Activities Meeting of The Mother Church
with contributions from Wilfred B. Wells, The Christian Science Board of Directors, William M. Bartlett, Emma C. Shipman, Mary Baker Eddy, Ralph H. Knapp, Abigail Dyer Thompson