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"The great congregation"

From the January 1967 issue of The Christian Science Journal


The inventing of swift modes of transportation and practically instantaneous means of communication has brought the human race into closer association than has ever been possible before. Important and unimportant incidents are broadcast every day, perhaps we should say every minute. Ideas, cultures, religious beliefs, economic and political concepts are circulated constantly.

What does this mean to the Christian Scientist? Just what it means to any thoughtful person. But more particularly it means that the truth of being must inevitably be known everywhere. God must be understood as All, because He is All. The healing Christ must be awakened in every individual in proof that man is God's likeness, blessed by the Father, healthy, intelligent, and abundantly supplied with good.

The Psalmist prophesied the universal knowledge of the truth in the twenty-second Psalm where we find these thrilling words: "My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation. ... All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee."
Ps. 22:25, 27;

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