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"Not of this world"
In the fourth chapter of Matthew's Gospel appears the episode of the temptation in which the devil—impersonal and incorporeal evil—takes Jesus "up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; and saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me." The Master knew well that his cause of presenting and representing the healing and regenerating Christ, Truth, could not be advanced by means of human power or willful mental force; hence his unequivocal and forthright repudiation of evil's subtle aggressive mental suggestion, in these words: "Get thee hence, Satan." Then, as it were to remind both himself and all mankind of man's birthright of exclusive allegiance to his creator, he said, "It is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve."
It was obvious to the Nazarene that mortal mind's illusory dream of life and intelligence in matter uncovers its total ignorance of the universe of Love's creating, composed as it really if of countless harmonious, immortal, divine ideas, of which man is the highest idea, forever expressing his God-given dominion over all the earth. Today, as of yore, the voluble lying serpent, in belief, persists in tempting men and women to "fall down" and pay homage to temporal power, material possessions, and mere human accomplishments. Conversely, the demands of God are that men continually rise into a higher and holier consciousness of man's eternal sonship with divine Truth and Love, a permanent relationship which, when understood in the light of Christian Science, leads from victory to victory over every phase of evil, lack, disease, and disaster.

August 29, 1942 issue
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Dwelling in Safety
KATHERINE ENGLISH
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"Not of this world"
FRED YOULD
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Supporting Our Church Services
JESSICA M. STEINBACH
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Man's Identity
CARL WALTER GEHRING
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Liberation of the World
OLIVE GILLIAM
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Harmony
ELEANOR CREIGHTON
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The Proof That Is Essential
NEIL MARTIN
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Class Instruction
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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Active Rest
Evelyn F. Heywood
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"How that the blind see, ... the deaf hear"
Alfred Pittman
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The Lectures
with contributions from Marius John, Thomas Alan Cooper, Hubert L. Bills, John W. E. Gilhespy, Marie R. Wootten
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A Christian Science period in...
"Columbia West Coast Church of the Air" talk over Columbia Broadcasting System, by Earl A. Jacobs,
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Christian Science is founded on...
Mrs. Eve Mortimer,
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For twenty years, up to 1927, I...
Henriet Feldman
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It is with joy that I testify to...
Sarah Shotwell
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Christian Science brought me...
Henry Allen Nichols
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I consider it my duty to express...
Marie Mahler-Doucet
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All my life I had been religiously...
Elizabeth S. Murray
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Overflowing gratitude to God...
Katheryn Llewellyn McCord
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I welcome this opportunity to...
Edith S. Michelson
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I became interested in Christian Science...
Wilhelmina Jewell
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Victory
CONRAD EIERMANN
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Clayton E. Wheat, Merchant Navy, Cedric Adams, O. K. Armstrong, Charles A. Wells