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What Christian Science comes to restore
There are times when considering a single word can bring new insight and kindle fresh ideas; it may even open to us wider realms of thought and inspiration. A good example is the word "restore." One meaning is, to bring back to the original state. It is not an overstatement to say that the work of Christian Science is always to restore—that is, to bring to our perception the original (and eternal) understanding of God, as well as the original (and eternal) identification of man as God's perfect, spiritual likeness.
A pervasive error clouding human thought is a sense of loss, deprivation, separation. Often such feelings relate to specific circumstances such as separation from home or job, deprivation of health, loss of friends or self-respect. But underlying these are the fundamental mortal errors of supposed separation from God, deprivation of good, and loss of man's original uprightness and completeness. Christian Science, the revelation of the Science of God and man, comes to restore the consciousness of our at-one-ment with God, good, and of the kingdom of heaven here right now.
In Christian Science we do not pray to overcome real discord or to change a real sickness into health, because neither discord nor sickness ever has any place in God's sight or is ever actually real. In Christian Science we pray to understand God and man as they truly are, as they already are—in other words, to see and demonstrate God's all-embracing permanence and perfection, together with the glory, grandeur, purity, and wholeness of immortal man forever expressing the divine goodness and harmony. We pray to recognize the unchanging Truth that already exists, and thereby to dissolve and annihilate the hallucinatory evils in mortal thought that would shut off from our vision the heavenly kingdom.
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January 10, 1983 issue
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How are you progressing?
DON E. SNYDER
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You don't have to consent to lack!
NORMAN GARY BLEICHMAN
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Come out from the porches of Bethesda
RALPH MALLINSON
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Touchstone
LUCIA JOHNSON LEITH
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Stay out of the mire
REX W. BEASLEY, JR.
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My Father's son
EVELYNNE B. SMITH
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Humility as spiritual power
JOHN K. DANIELS
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A patient's prayer
MARCEIL RUTH DeLACY
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FROM THE DIRECTORS
The Christian Science Board Of Directors
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What Christian Science comes to restore
DeWITT JOHN
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The Ahaz mistake
NATHAN A. TALBOT
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Blowing your lines
Mario Tosto
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After seeing the healing my husband experienced...
HARRIETTE T. MAXWELL
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Relying radically on God's healing power has made me realize...
TEMPIE STAHLIN with contributions from ED STAHLIN