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What "spiritually minded" Means
Every Christian Scientist should understand the necessity of being spiritually-minded in order to heal sickness and sin. In the Bible we read, "To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." Rom. 8:6; To be carnally-minded is to be physically-minded, that is, to give undue importance to the flesh and to matter.
Mrs. Eddy writes: "Scientific discovery and the inspiration of Truth have taught me that the health and character of man become more or less perfect as his mind-models are more or less spiritual. Because God is Spirit, our thoughts must spiritualize to approach Him, and our methods grow more spiritual to accord with our thoughts." The People's Idea of God, p. 7; Our thoughts become more spiritual as we realize that Spirit is Life and that matter, being temporal and the opposite of Spirit, is not real. Sin, disease, and all evil stem from the false belief that life and intelligence are in matter. Spiritual life only is real; it is the consciousness of health, holiness, immutability, indestructibility, completeness, and security. Life, God, is eternal. Therefore, man, the manifestation of Life, must be immortal.

January 7, 1967 issue
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"A contrite heart"
LESLIE C. BELL
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What "spiritually minded" Means
MAUDE A. STEPHENSON
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Rising Above Routine
REX MILLER
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Angels Will Do Our Errands
BARBARA BLECH DUNBAR
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He "tempers the wind to the shorn lamb"
CYRIL GIBBS NORTON
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Man Is Never Alone
SANDRA LUERSSEN HOERNER
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Choosing a College
EDITH THACKWELL YOUNG
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How Civilized Are We?
Helen Wood Bauman
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Wait for an Answer
Carl J. Welz
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I have known and been blessed by Christian Science for over...
Virginia Farish Millett
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When my husband and I learned of Christian Science, I was to...
Hedwig Hanisch with contributions from Erich Hanisch
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At the age of six I was enrolled by my parents in a Christian Science...
Edward Wilmar Beck
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When we make Mrs. Eddy's words come alive through demonstration...
Harriet j. Feldmann
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Signs of the Times
William S. Hockman