In giving credit in your paper to various healing agencies—including "sunlight, fresh air, cheerful company, et cetera"—you expressed also your belief that Christian Science heals by mental or spiritual suggestion, although you indicated that it my use "faith, prayer, and knowledge.
I quite agree with a correspondent that "every material element is at war with all others that cross its path," and it is from these warring elements of materiality that mankind is seeking salvation.
Your publication espoused an ill-considered attack upon the veracity of The Christian Science Monitor when it reprinted in the issue of May 25, under the caption "Remarkable Group of Misstatements," an attack which was characterized by anything but judicious consideration of the facts.
A child should be able to understand evolution, for the subject should be considered only from a single viewpoint, namely: What is real and eternal, God, good, or evil; Spirit or matter; the law of infinite Mind and Principle or the so-called law of finite belief?
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read in the epistle of James, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
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is impossible not to have a shrewd suspicion that "the Professor of Ignorance" knew more than he confessed when he said: "And far out, drifting helplessly on that gray, angry sea, I saw a small boat at the mercy of the winds and waves.
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sixth of the tenets of The Mother Church, which are to be found on page 497 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," reads as follows: "And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.
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book of psalms repeatedly presents the thought of praising God, and the earnest student hears in these insistent notes more than a call merely to laud the creator,—even a call to appraise or prize God, good, above all else.
"Among the first instructions given to our workers are those to the effect that while they are employed by one of the committees of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, they are not to consider it to be among their duties to spread the doctrines of Christian Science, but that they are placed in the camps on the broad basis of service to all, regardless of denomination.