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How Are We Handling Sin?
Callous , indeed, is the thought which is not touched by the moving word picture which one finds at the beginning of the eighth chapter of John's Gospel. May we not note, in passing, what gems of literary etching one finds again and again in the New Testament narratives? Often word artists of the Bible with a minimum of bold strokes, draw the most vivid pictures—stories ever fresh and inspirational yet sketched in the simplest language.
In the instance under consideration the stage is set in three verses for a drama about which volumes could be written. An unfortunate woman, a victim of sin, is brought before Jesus. Scribe and Pharisee, without doubt some of the community's most pious citizens, are plainly scandalized. They cite the law of Moses with its "eye for eye." They remind the Master that according to rabbinical decree, the woman should be stoned. Now what says he? One can almost visualize the self-satisfaction of the cunning plotters. What can this upstart teacher of a God of love and mercy say to this?

May 27, 1944 issue
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"Our times and obligations"
DELOS EDWARD JOHNSON
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Overcoming False Competition
ALICE F. FUNKEN
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Effective Work in the Christian Science Organization
FRED C. FISHER
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While Yet in Prison
DOROTHY H. STEPHENS
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Are You a Christian?
EDWARD H. HORSTMAN
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Failure Vanquished
MARY LUELLA RICHEY
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"Hallowed be thy name"
JANET CHRISTINA PERRINS
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How Are We Handling Sin?
John Randall Dunn
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Where Does Value Reside?
Paul Stark Seeley
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In an article in a recent issue of...
William H. Vaughn with contributions from Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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God's Plan for Me
GERTRUDE A. MONTGOMERY
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I am grateful for Christian Science...
John R. Rutherford
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Because of the many beautiful...
Eula Crawford Greenlee
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I should like to express my deep...
Anyce J. Davis Jones with contributions from Gomer M. Jones, John E. Jones
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I wish to express my heartfelt...
Ethel M. Russell
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A few years ago I realized that...
Natella C. Roesch
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In gratitude to God for His law...
Sallie A. Wheaton
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One of our hymns reminds us...
Anna Bignell
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One Sunday morning, early in...
W. Cyprian Bridge
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I want to express my gratitude...
Martha Ann Mettetal
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Dedication
Ethel Arbour Chase
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Earl L. Douglass, James Reid, Ralph T. Jones, R. W. Pickersgill