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infrequently we hear it said, "I have experienced some healing in Christian Science; I really believe in it and enjoy studying it, but I do not seem to get from it the complete satisfaction that some people do.
John's understanding of Jesus and his teachings did not come through the physical senses any more than did that of Peter when Jesus said to him: "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona : for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
It cannot be truthfully said of Christian Science that it does anything else but reform the sinner and heal the sick, nor can it be successfully denied that it accomplishes both these works in marked degree.
In an issue of your periodical you published a contribution under the caption "Pseudo Science," which makes the charge that Christian Science is "neither science nor Christianity.
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is very interesting and sometimes helpful to retrace words to their origin, for often those which are much used have a deeper significance than that which appears on the surface, a meaning which has been lost, weakened, or perverted in the course of time.
