Exploring in depth what Christian Science is and how it heals.
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LOVERS of the Bible never cease to appreciate the significance of the complete deliverance of the Israelites from their Egyptian pursuers at the Red Sea. This dramatic story, so simply told in the fourteenth chapter of Exodus, vividly portrays the results that follow implicit obedience to divine direction.
" ENLARGE the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left" ( Isa. 54:2, 3 ).
MUCH is heard these days about a type of mental illness which is known as "split personality. " It is believed that an individual so afflicted expresses more than one identity or nature.
WE read in I Corinthians ( 13:12 ), "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. " How are we known to God? Surely as His image and likeness, as He created man.
IT is widely conceded that Christian Science heals and reforms, but that it protects from harm is less well known. Protection is gained from the conviction that God is the only presence, power, cause, or effect.
When God is seen with men to dwell, And all creation makes anew, What tongue can half the wonders tell, What eye the dazzling glories view? (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 384.
IN Science and Health, under the marginal heading "Genuine healing," Mrs. Eddy writes ( p.
IN working with people over a period of years, I have noticed that their reactions to situations or to others may result in difficulties, in enmities, and even in ailments. I have found too that people manifest peace and poise when they joyously accept and willingly demonstrate man's God-bestowed imperviousness to evil.
OBEDIENCE to the requirements of the Ten Commandments is essential to mankind's moral progress. And Christian Science reveals that the Mosaic Decalogue is susceptible of a spiritual interpretation which is even more essential to the progress of mankind.
THE practice of Christian Science is the application of the spiritual laws that were revealed to Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science and set forth in the textbook, Science and Health.