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The spiritual import of "Ye shall be holy..." unfolds to a student of Christian Science
THE WHOLE OF MAN
In the Old Testament we read (Lev. 19:1, 2), "And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy." Studied in the light of Christian Science, God's declaration to the children of Israel is found to be an inspiring and powerful statement of divine law and a basis for Christian Science healing, which is brought about through obedience to the law of God.
"Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy." Here, indeed, is expressed the spiritual fact that God's holiness ensures man's holiness. There is no question about it; because God is holy, man, the man of God's creating, has no alternative but to be obediently holy himself, the perfect effect of a perfect cause. Is there anyone who would question that God is the only cause? No, not if that one truly believes that God is omnipotent, for there can be only one omnipotent!
Anything that would seem to indicate another creator or another power is a lie, an illusion of material sense — a ghost of belief! Just as we have ceased to believe in ghosts, some day we shall cease to believe in an unholy or material man or an unholy creation, separate from God. Our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 207): "There is but one primal cause. Therefore there can be no effect from any other cause, and there can be no reality in aught which does not proceed from this great and only cause."
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April 2, 1949 issue
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GETTING ALONG WITH OTHERS
ESTHER JONES SLOAN
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WHY STAND AGHAST?
ROYAL P. MAULSBY
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THE RIGHT PERSPECTIVE
DOROTHY PRICE
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THE WHOLE OF MAN
ELAINE HELEN PETERS
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CONTENT
Alan W. Thwaites
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JOYOUS SERVING MEANS SPIRITUAL GROWTH
HELENE M. HAUSER
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COMMUNION WITH GOD
ALAN A. AYLWIN
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"LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF"
EDNA A. LICHTENFELS
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GOD DOES ALL THINGS
Althea Brooks Hollenbeck
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CONSECRATION NOT ISOLATION
George Channing
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CHRIST, THE SAVIOUR
Helen Wood Bauman
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Notices
with contributions from The Christian Science Board Of Directors
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Nervous breakdown healed and responsibility assumed
James B. Coppedge
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Protection during occupation by Japanese
Martha Bertschi-Krauer with contributions from Hans Rudolf Bertschi
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Lump on wrist dissolved by Truth
Viletta Walz
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Broken forearm healed; drugs and tobacco cast out
John C. Stutz
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Healing received through reading textbook
Amelia V. B. Rackham
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Appendicitis yields to Science treatment
Dorothy E. Legg
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Instantaneous healing of injury from fall
Nettie Wilkinson
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Healings experienced during church service
P. Angel Shell with contributions from Emil J. Shell
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Chronic kidney trouble vanishes within a week
Helene Dorothea Westhoff
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Edgar C. Taylor, Warren Webster, Anthony W. Myers