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THE CORRECT PREMISE
On page 274 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy. its author, writes, "Divine Science is absolute, and permits no half-way position in learning its Principle and rule— establishing it by demonstration." This statement indicates, therefore, that in order to demonstrate the truth of Christian Science, one has to think from a standpoint that is absolutely correct; that is, from the standpoint of the present perfection of God and man. Truth is always absolute and therefore does not permit one to take a halfway position as far as one's thinking is concerned. Because Christ, Truth, is always available and operative in human experience, there is no condition where correct and absolute knowing will not eliminate and destroy an incorrect point of view.
Let us consider an example of spiritually correct knowing and, on the other hand, of thinking from a human or relative standpoint. Not infrequently someone says: "I like Christian Science; I believe in it. But I have so little understanding. How can I demonstrate its truth when I know so little?" At first thought it might seem proper and modest to take this attitude, but if one really wishes to grow in the understanding and demonstration of Christian Science it must be seen that such a statement is purely relative. Indeed it is incorrect, because it is in effect a denial of the truth. It is a denial of one's true and only selfhood.

September 27, 1952 issue
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GOD'S LIBERATING ALLNESS
MARY S. JONES
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A PRAYER
Gertrude I. Wilson
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"AGAIN I SAY, REJOICE"
THOMAS D. M. LATTA
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WHAT IS IT THAT HEALS?
JANE M. CRISP
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THE HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT
FRANCES MATHEWS WARN
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A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST'S MEDICINE
WILFRED S. THORPE
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MAN CANNOT BE DISAPPOINTING OR DISAPPOINTED
MARIANNE WARD
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GAME OF GRATITUDE
ELIZABETH BICE LUERSSEN
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REFLECTION
Harold Vinal
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THE CORRECT PREMISE
Richard J. Davis
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A LESSON ON TRIBULATION
Robert Ellis Key
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IT IS MY HEART THAT SINGS
Esther A. Callihan
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I shall never cease to be grateful...
Clem W. Collins, Jr. with contributions from Muffie Stevenson
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Thirty-eight years ago I was a...
John T. Windell
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Christian Science is the only physician...
Lorene E. Harcrave
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Christian Science came into my...
Florence J. G. Ward
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Sixteen years ago Christian Science...
Augusta Hill Watts
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I should like to express my gratitude...
Mildred McAllister
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Christian Science has been an...
Rosemary Horn May with contributions from Lowell E. May
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from W. J. Fesmire, Henry Geerlings, Aaron N. Meckel