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From Our Exchanges

The old idea of heaven as a place to be admitted to, and of hell as a place to shun, has largely given way in the minds of Christian believers to the better idea of heaven as signifying a heavenly condition and of hell as expressing the inner state of the sinner who persistently and flagrantly violates the laws of his being and disregards those divine precepts which are designed, through compliance with them, to make the life prosperous and happy.

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Jesus said, "I and my Father are one," also, "my Father...

H. Coulson Fairchild

Jesus said, "I and my Father are one," also, "my Father is greater than I," the greater cannot be limited to the lesser.

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It is the practice of all true Christian Scientists to be...

P. Verrall

It is the practice of all true Christian Scientists to be charitable and forgiving towards all men, even to those who misunderstand and misrepresent their religion, knowing that this misunderstanding can be better overcome by a kindly presentation of facts, than by taking up the sword of hostile argument.

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The help obtained from a change of environment or...

Ezra W. Palmer

The help obtained from a change of environment or of sensations is from its inherent nature temporary, and sooner or later the patient must meet the problem again, as the fundamental error has not been overcome, nor can such assistance permanently change a man's moral nature.

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Too Little, not too much Faith, a Sinful Risk

J. R. Mosley

There is much in the published report of Mr.

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To be at Peace

O. F. FLEISCHER.

One of the foremost essentials of Christian Science is to be at peace.

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The Dream of Mortal Life

R. S. M.

Every Christian Scientist has learned that mortal existence is a dream.

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A Spring Message

GRACE H. WILMOT.

While at work removing the winter's covering of leaves and straw from flower beds and vines, I found in my wildflower corner this beautiful spring greeting: a single hepatica one of the earliest of the spring flowers, tired of its imprisonment among layers of leaves, had forced itself in its efforts for liberation, through six tough brown leaves.

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The Nature of Substance

MRS. THOMAS JEFFERSON.

When the wonderful facts of Christian Science first became evident to me, and while trying to understand that the unseen things were the real and that substance was in the things hoped for, I happened to read one of the works of the great French astronomer, Camille Flammarion, and I found it most helpful in many ways.

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Differing Conceptions of the Lord's Prayer

JUDGE JOHN D. WORKS.

In my limited knowledge of Christian Science and its teachings, nothing has impressed me more, or with greater favor, than its construction of the words and meaning of the Lord's Prayer.