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Nonsense!
A French moralist has observed, "If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father;" and in the Christian Science textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 489,490), Mary Baker Eddy elaborates on this "want of sense." She writes: "A wrong sense of God, man, and creation is non-sense, want of sense. Mortal belief would have the material senses sometimes good and sometimes bad. It assures mortals that there is real pleasure in sin; but the grand truths of Christian Science dispute this error." As for poverty, hear this terse description from an ancient Latin apothegm; "Poverty does not mean the possession of little, but the non-possession of much."
From this, the inference may be clearly drawn that the cause of crime, and of all error, lies in the want, or lack, of sense, of spiritual sense or understanding. The human family suffers from one devastating well-nigh universal malady. It is the non-sense called ignorance. This does not imply that a Christian Scientist when confronted with a sad or serious problem, airily waves error aside with the flippant retort, "Nonsense!" He recognizes and deals with the root of the difficulty, which is want of spiritual sense.

April 15, 1944 issue
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The Essential Industry
WILLIAM SHACKLE
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A Practical Answer
JEANNE STEELY LAITNER
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The Risen Christ
JANE POLSON SPEARIN
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Christian Science Camp Welfare Activities
MAURICE W. HASTIE
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Harmonious Industrial Relations
ROSE PRICE
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"The beauty of holiness"
RICHARD C. MOLLOY
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Be Not Afraid
AMY G. VIAU
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Doing Our Own Work
NANCY L. HOLDER
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"In my Father's house"
DOROTHY DOYLE BATTEN
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Nonsense!
John Randall Dunn
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"Upon this rock I will build"
Paul Stark Seeley
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It is refreshing to read such a...
John M. Dean
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To one serving in the air force,...
Allan Voorsanger
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In gratitude for all the good I...
Mabel Gunnis
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It is with a great deal of humility...
Violet Dangerfield
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Many years of my life were...
Inez Campbell
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Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy,...
Katherine Grey
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That Christian Science does heal...
Frank R. Spotts with contributions from Arletta Spotts
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Christian Science means everything...
Florence H. Colwell with contributions from Dorothy C. Seeley
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Song
ALAN W. THWAITES
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from William C. Kernan, Edwin S. Lane, J. Hutchison Cockburn