In the teaching and practice of Christian Science the so-called human mind or human will has nothing to do with the healing work, as the practice of human will-power only serves to produce an hypnotic state, which sooner or later aggravates the illness.
Professor Fiske, formerly a lecturer on philosophy in Harvard University, is authority for the following: "All the qualities of matter are what the mind makes them, and have no existence as such apart from the mind.
Kindly allow me to challenge, as extremely unfair, the item in a recent issue of your paper which began as if it were to be a synopsis of the master's report lately filed in the suit brought by John V.
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appears to the writer that more than any other historical or allegorical character portrayed in the Bible, the prodigal's elder brother symbolizes one's self,—not so much on account of his ungenerous attitude, betrayed on the other's home-coming, but because of his position in the parental household.
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witnessed in the fifty-second year of the Christian era the result of the Apostle Paul's preaching in the synagogues of that luxurious and profligate city.