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Is radical reliance on God dangerous?
I was a newcomer to Christian Science. I had always thought of the word "radical" as meaning extreme—even dangerous. Now I was being exposed to the term in connection with reliance on healing. "Christian Science healing sure is different," the thought kept recurring, "but is radical bad?"
Eventually I got beyond that impasse, became an ardent student of this Science, and found radical reliance on the healing power of God to be a natural and important part of Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, states, "It is not wise to take a halting and half-way position or to expect to work equally with Spirit and matter, Truth and error." On the same page she says: "Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized." Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 167;

July 10, 1978 issue
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Is radical reliance on God dangerous?
G. STANLEY HAMMOND
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A misconception is always curable
ROBERT A. MOSS
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True self-care
GERTRUDE BAYLESS
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Healing
Jules Cern
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Joyful persistence
JANE PARTIS McCARTY
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Stupendous healing power
DESMOND E. MAC-KWASHIE
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Prayer for myself
Carolyn Fay Ruffin
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From the Directors
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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A simple, usable rule
Geoffrey J. Barratt
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Guidance through Christ, not chronology
Naomi Price
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Angels on the boat
Amy Lynn Faulstich (written at age 9)
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My favorite Bible verse
Courtenay Cassel (written at age 9)
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While carrying our first child I made a major decision: to be a...
Mary Jane Schulze with contributions from Elaine M. Dyson
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My first healing in Christian Science occurred over forty years...
Olive M. Lawrence
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Since my first testimony of healing was published in The Christian Science Journal...
John L. Starrett
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Over sixty years ago my mother had a beautiful healing of...
Thelma P. Idzal
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Letters to the Press
with contributions from J. Buroughs Stokes