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WHAT ARE WE SEEING?
CENTURIES ago, skeptics disbelieved the man born blind when he avowed that Christ Jesus had restored his sight. To their materialistic thought, this was impossible. Even Jesus' disciples attributed the man's blindness to his own sin or to some sin of his parents. Thus they ignorantly gave power to aggressive mental suggestion.
Metaphorically Jesus spat upon this phase of the carnal mind, which, being incapable of discerning spiritual things, works from material and oftentimes sinister motives. He knew that erroneous suggestion tempted men to believe in the finality and fatality of certain conditions. To correct this darkened belief, he said to his disciples (John 9:5), "As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world." He also explained that he must work the works of God while it was day.
His disciples may have thought that he meant while it was still daylight, but Jesus was speaking of the day of Spirit, which requires no solar rays to perpetuate its everlasting radiance. Through this spiritual light of divine understanding, Jesus beheld the perfect man of God's creating and reversed the evidence paraded by matter.
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July 25, 1959 issue
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THE PERFECT RULE FOR MEETING HUMAN NEEDS
ELLA H. HAY
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"AS HE THINKETH . . . SO IS HE"
J. LESLIE HADDON
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WHAT ARE WE SEEING?
JESSIE PAFFLEY
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OUR TRUE INHERITANCE
JOHN LEE
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TRUTH IS NEVER NEUTRAL
MYRA KING WHITSON
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GOD'S DIVINE AND ETERNAL PURPOSE
LUCILLE P. SHIRLEY
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"THE REFINEMENT OF JOY"
SAVILLA WELK AMERY
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JILL PASSES A SWIMMING TEST
JANE PARTIS MC CARTY
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"I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST"
Harold Molter
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GOD IS PRESENT WITH US
JOHN J. SELOVER
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Twenty-two years ago a physician...
HARRIET F. FLEMING with contributions from EMILIE F. SCHWARTZ, MARION F. JONES
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The spiritual understanding of...
David E. Sleeper
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"Trials are proofs of God's care"
Katherine Becker
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Mrs. Eddy tells us in the textbook,...
Louise Herot
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I came into Christian Science...
Madge Foland Kuykendall with contributions from E. S. Kuykendall
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How does one put into words the...
Lilyon M. Winkie
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I learned of Christian Science...
Elfriede Garten
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Signs of the Times
Hugh Stevenson Tigner