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CAN CRITICISM HEAL?
The goal of a Christian Scientist is to abide in a healing consciousness. The Psalmist thus expresses this aspiration (Ps. 51:10, 13): "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. ... Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee."
To attain this consciousness sought by the Psalmist one must refrain from destructive criticism, which does not heal. True criticism, however, discovers excellences as well as defects. The verb criticize means to judge, to examine, or to review. Thus one of the functions of criticism is to evaluate events, and this should lead to correction and healing. Consequently one does not need to forgo criticism. It is only destructive criticism from which he should abstain. Judging or examining in Christian Science is founded upon the basic truth that the divine Mind beholds all things as perfect as it conceived them. And because the one wholly good Mind is the only Mind of man, there is in reality no mind with the desire to criticize destructively.

December 13, 1952 issue
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CAN CRITICISM HEAL?
MILTON SIMON
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LOVE, THE COMFORTER
Kathryn Paulson
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THE UTILIZATION OF LOVE
LURA SPANGLER ECKMAN
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INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY
CLYDE D. SAMSON
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OBLATION AND OBLIGATION
DOROTHY PRICE
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LET US NOT FEAR
Maude de Verse Newton
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"REPENT YE"
ALBERT F. ENGEL
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JIMMIE STANDS HIS GROUND
MORLEY MARSHALL JOHN
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THE GIFT OF GOD
Ethel P. Harrison
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THE SANITY OF MIND
Robert Ellis Key
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A HEALING APPROACH
Helen Wood Bauman
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LETTERS TO THE PRESS FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION
with contributions from Colin R. Eddison, John J. Selover
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FROM ANNUAL REPORTS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION
with contributions from T. Sune H:sson Tamm, Earl A. Jacobs
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Although words are very inadequate...
Edith M. Bugden
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My heart overflows with gratitude...
Elise M. Olson
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Christian Science came into my...
Ella M. Wedge
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I received my introduction to...
Hubert P. Davis
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Too long have I delayed expressing...
Ernestine Harris
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I should like to give this testimony...
Jessie Brickell
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I turned to Christian Science in...
Josephine C. Jordan
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I should like to acknowledge my...
Gwyneth M. Wilson with contributions from Emily Newns, Cecil R. Newns
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Edward J. Meeman, Brooks Hays, J. D. McCrae, George H. Willett