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Prayer can change the evidence
Can you really change evidence? And should you? It sounds like a sleight-of-hand trick, doesn't it? It may even seem dishonest, rather like tampering with courtroom evidence.
But in the healing practice of Christian Science, changing false evidence for true is not only possible, it is imperative. Mrs. Eddy explains in Rudimental Divine Science: "According to the evidence of the so-called physical senses, man is material, fallen, sick, depraved, mortal. Science and spiritual sense contradict this, and they afford the only true evidence of the being of God and man, the material evidence being wholly false." Rud., p. 7.
How, then, do we change the false evidence of discord, loss, or illness? Christian Science turns us to prayer just as Christ Jesus did. It teaches us to put full trust in the all-loving, all-knowing God. We learn the importance of earnest silent communion with God, and of shutting out the clamoring of the senses so that we can hear divine direction and know that God is ever near.
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September 29, 1986 issue
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No cutoff date on Life!
LUCINDA BAKER GREINER
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On to eternity
THORA MARGARET ORTON
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To be a second miler
UDAI B. HOFFBERG
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Prayer can change the evidence
CAMILLE H. MacKUSICK
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Individuality
STANLEY JOHN YORK
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Holding our children in God's love
ANN KENRICK
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Spiritual ideas, practical answers
JEANNE STEELY LAITNER
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What am I?
EVELYN M. S. DUCKETT
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The joy of being
LAURA CANFIELD LEE
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You the reader, yesterday's megatrends, and today's spiritual morning
ALLISON W. PHINNEY, JR.
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Are we receptive to healing?
BARBARA-JEAN STINSON
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Do you know where you fit in?
Elizabeth Carey
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I haven't written a testimony since my first one,...
W. GERTRUDE WALKER
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In a testimony published in The Christian Science Journal several...
MAUD MARION WASH
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When I was between eight and ten, my mother, grandmother,...
KATHERINE LORENE WEST
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My mother first learned of Christian Science from a family...
ELEANOR T. WOLFF with contributions from ROBERTA WOLFF ROBINSON