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As we write these words there rises before the mental vision a long line of seers, reformers, discoverers, who were regarded as madmen by one generation, and hailed as saints and heroes by the next.
The sense in which Christian Science maintains and proves that our sense perceptions are unreal is in the sense of their being unreliable, passing, and unenduring; not that they do not seem real to us.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

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The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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It is surely about time that intelligent men and women gave up repeating the catch-phrase that Christian Science is neither Christian nor scientific; and if they will not, that ably conducted papers gave up reporting them.

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At Mount Holly, N.
There are two points in connection with the Christian Science movement regarding which there is no controversy, viz.
Christian Science has no kinship whatever with hypnotic suggestion.

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Anthology of classic articles II

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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THE SPIRITUAL LIGHTHOUSE

The spiritual analogies suggested by a lighthouse have appealed to many minds—its rock foundation, the great strength needed in its construction, the means used that the light shall be always of the best obtainable strength and quality, the reliability of character necessary for a lighthouse keeper,—these, and other facts, are of more than ordinary interest from a mental standpoint.

"AND HE ... BLESSED THEM."

It would seem that Thackeray was looking directly at little children and was endeavoring to paint a picture of their happy, beaming faces when he wrote, "What indeed does not that word cheerfulness imply?

CONFESSING OUR FAULTS

The Scriptures enjoin upon all seekers of righteousness the necessity of confessing their errors and sins; not as an arbitrary formality to be observed as ritual, but because the acknowledgment of our faults and mistake is one of the most effectual means of correcting them, and of removing their effects on ourselves and others.
It is very desirable that all who join the Church of Christ, Scientist, whether it be The Mother Church or one of its branches, should be thoroughly familiar with the object for which this church was founded, as set forth in the "Historical Sketch" in the Manual namely, "To organize a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing".
[Western Christian Advocate.
Christian Science teaches the recognition of the need of practically and effectually coping with sin, sickness, and death, the disturbers of the peace and harmony of mankind.