Articles

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Ottumwa, Ia.
How often we see it stated in sermons against Christian Science, and in articles criticising its ways and methods, that the healing in Christian Science is done through hypnotic suggestion.

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Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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Sifted Sayings

A good life is the best way to understand religion and wisdom, because by the experiences and relishes of religion there is conveyed to them such a sweetness to which all wicked men are strangers.

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Minnesota Medical Bill

February 1, 1899, Senator Jepson introduced the Medical Bill, Senate File No.
How very many people there are in this world who honestly and sincerely believe that God sends sickness and various kinds of affliction upon them for some reason, they know not what, but out of which they are trying to hope and believe that some good will come if they endure patiently.
Every time some one dies of an incurable disease who has pinned his faith on Christian Science the opponents of that cult put on their war paint and strike out vigorously.

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Anthology of classic articles II

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

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A spiritual approach to mental health

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on mental health—and find hope, even healing.

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For expectant mothers

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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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The Christian Scientists, faith curists, and people generally who choose to receive attendance in their own way or go without it when sick, have secured a distinct victory in the liberal state of Illinois, where it is held by the attorney-general that mental methods of treating diseases are not in violation of the law.
Christian Science has won a victory in Illinois where the attorney-general has rendered a decision that no offence is committed by the treatment of a patient by mental or spiritual methods where no medicine is used.
When medical science has looked at a man's tongue and thumped his chest and has finally determined that he is suffering from an "incurable disease," has medical science any right to prolong his suffering by filling his internal regions with nux vomica or cinchona?
Several churches in Philadelphia have set up "cradle rooms" as an inducement to fathers and mothers to attend divine service.
From the scare-headings in the newspapers, Another Christian Science Victim, one might be led to suppose that there were no victims of regular doctors.
A paper by Dr.