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This article will bring fresh inspiration to those who feel at a loss for words when wanting to glorify God
MIND IS ITS OWN INTERPRETER
At a Wednesday testimony meeting in a Church of Christ, Scientist, a woman spoke of her gratitude for Christian Science as something that could hardly be expressed in words. She added that this was not surprising, since Mary Baker Eddy herself found human words inadequate to express fully God's revelation to her of Christian Science.
This seeming inadequacy did not, however, deter the author of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Mrs. Eddy writes therein (p. 460), "When the Science of Mind was a fresh revelation to the author, she had to impart, while teaching its grand facts, the hue of spiritual ideas from her own spiritual condition, and she had to do this orally through the meagre channel afforded by language and by her manuscript circulated among the students. As former beliefs were gradually expelled from her thought, the teaching became dearer, until finally the shadow of old errors was no longer cast upon divine Science."
Our Leader realized that her work was not complete as the Discoverer of Christian Science until she had stated her discovery in terms that the average person could understand. After tireless labors in writing and revising the textbook, she was finally enabled to say (ibid., pp. 146, 147), "Divine metaphysics is now reduced to a system, to a form comprehensible by and adapted to the thought of the age in which we live."
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March 5, 1949 issue
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THE UNITY OF GOD AND MAN
WOODRUFF SMITH
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BEAUTY
MARY BARNES
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MIND IS ITS OWN INTERPRETER
GEORGE ALEXANDER MARKO
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"CASTING ALL YOUR CARE UPON HIM"
ELFRIEDE LINDE-EBBINGHAUS
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MAN CANNOT BE ENTICED
VIOLETTE M. LEE
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"THERE IS NO DISEASE"
J. BLAINE SNOW
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DIVINE GUIDANCE
DORIS M. SMITH
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STANDPOINT
Benjamin Sturgis Pray
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MEETING OBLIGATIONS
George Channing
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OUR INHERITANCE
Robert Ellis Key
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Blood poisoning healed when hate is destroyed
Jerome Morton Joffee
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Victory over tobacco habit brings great joy
F. Marius Massa
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Decrepitude disappears in spiritual rebirth
Ethel F. Mathews with contributions from Laura A. Ford
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Influenza overcome through reading hymn
Grace Hilda Lugg
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Grief dispelled; growth on hand disappears
Catharina Brummer
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Healing of burns overcomes prejudice
Gladys M. Perrow
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Regeneration of one brings help to another
Ettabelle Bullard
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Blessings received during Army service
John F. Davies
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Signs of the times
with contributions from Angus Watson, Elbridge B. Linn, Thomas Hastwell, Frederick Maser