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Uncle Alex came out on the back piazza with his newspaper, and was just going to seat himself in one of the armchairs, when a very large spider, weaving its web among the vines, attracted his attention. He went closer, to look at it: and presently called to Neddie, who was playing in the yard, "Neddie, come and see this huge spider.
The womanhood of man and the manhood of woman are one and inseparable in Divine Love, Truth, and Life,— the father and mother of all created reality. Our Teacher has bearded the lion in his den, and destroyed the false conception of man, even all material claims to manhood or womanhood.
And he found the man of God under an oak. I Kings xiii.
The wonderful works of God's creation will be manifested to us some day, through the power of Mind over matter, or Good over evil, until all matter and evil disappear. The heaven and earth which mortals see, are but the creations of material sense.
All suffering originates in sin somewhere; but if sin is unreal, wherefore comes the suffering? A child has been told there is a bear in the darkness, and he suffers terribly if alone at night. What causes the suffering? Simply the belief that there is something near by with power to injure.
We find scores of people who like the healing of Christian Science, but not the theology. If it were possible, and in accord with Principle, to bring out Christian healing outside the line of Christianity, we might be able to accommodate this class; but we are glad to know that no one can be healed in sin; but that the present knowledge of Good is the only power against sickness or sin.
Two of the biographers of Jesus, Luke and Matthew, record him as saying: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, .
All true and loyal Christian Scientists should insert their cards in our Journal, so that the public, as well as Christian Scientists, may know who they are. It was said of the disciples "that they [the public] took note of them, that they had been with Jesus.
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This monthly magazine is devoted to the subject of healing without the use of drugs, hygiene, manipulation, or mesmerism, and to assist in reforming the sinner. It is the only periodical containing contributions from the Discoverer of Christian Science, Rev.