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BREAKING ERROR'S SPELL
[Of Special Interest to Children]
Last year Holly went with her older brother to see a play called "Hansel and Gretel." In it a witch cast a magic spell on Gretel so that Gretel would help her in her plans to put Hansel into her oven. It made Holly very unhappy to see Gretel, who always had expressed so much love for her brother, now treat him unkindly. Hansel, however, never stopped loving his sister, for he knew that it was the witch's spell that made her act that way. He told her he forgave her and even gave her a kiss to prove he still loved her. This kiss broke the magic spell; Gretel became herself again, and everything ended happily.
The week after the play Holly's mother was reading to her the Lesson-Sermon from the Christian Science Quarterly on "Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced." It was full of big words that Holly did not know how to pronounce.
When she asked about hypnotism, her mother explained that it is something like the magic spell which the witch cast on Gretel in the play. It is error making someone do wrong and making him think he likes to do it. Then Holly saw that whenever any of her friends seemed to express error, she would have to keep right on loving the child of God in order to prove that error was not fooling her. And this love would free her friends just as in the play it had freed Gretel.
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May 30, 1953 issue
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"THAT THE WORLD MAY KNOW"
MARGARET MORRISON
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THE LANGUAGE OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
ROBERT A. CURRY
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CHURCH DEDICATION A SPIRITUAL CHALLENGE
ALTA MAE STEELE
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MAN
Robert Sears Clark
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VICTORY
W. PRESTON SMITH
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"NO CHANGE MY HEART SHALL FEAR"
WARREN H. SMITH
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BREAKING ERROR'S SPELL
JANE KIRK HUNTLEY
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UNFOLDING FLOWERS OF SPIRIT
Gertrude I. Wilson
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AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT
Robert Ellis Key
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THE COMFORT OF SCIENCE
Helen Wood Bauman
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LETTERS TO THE PRESS FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION
with contributions from James A. Vincent, Colin R. Eddison, Peter B. Vanderhoef
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FROM ANNUAL REPORTS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION
with contributions from Inman H. Douglass, Herman C. Skarie, Wilson M. Riley
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A READER'S PRAYER BEFORE SERVICE
Maxine Le Pelley
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The first divine healing that ever...
Ruth M. Cleaver
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Many testimonies in The Christian Science Journal...
Stanley J. Overbury
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I first heard of Christian Science...
Maude Merrick Boston
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My first healing in Christian Science...
Eva Haynie
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An experience I had a few years...
Jane Lockwood
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What a blessed joy it is to witness...
Caroline M. Wootten
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So many blessings have come...
Gertrude Linn Coursen
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It is recorded in Acts that Peter,...
George Gold Fraser
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My family became interested in...
Mildred C. Young
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Christian Science has been my...
Lula S. Blasdell
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I feel it is time to acknowledge...
Catherine E. Stiers
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from A. Ray Grummon, Paul Scherer