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ALTHOUGH Jesus commanded his follower to preach the gospel, Christianity is initially a subjective dispensation. Its fundamental purpose is to furnish the individual with the means of deliverance from evil and of compassing the kingdom of heaven here and now.
IN Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes ( p.
ON a winter day after a severe freeze, the writer viewed from her office window the breaking up of the masses of ice in a nearby river and watched the ice floes as they floated down the stream. This scene seemed to her to symbolize the churning turmoil occasioned by the breaking up of fixed mortal beliefs, freezing fears, stubborn opinions, and the tyrannical institutions of the carnal mind, the antichrist, so evident throughout the world today.
A MAN went to a Wednesday evening testimony meeting in a small Christian Science church. There were only a handful of people present; and so when the time for testimonies arrived, the man was surprised to hear the First Reader say that all testimonies would be limited to three minutes.
SOLD at the age of seventeen by his envious brothers, Joseph was taken by the traders into Egypt and sold by them to Potiphar, captain of the royal Egyptian guard (see Gen. 37:36; 39:1).
IN the study of Christian Science fresh inspiration may be attained through prayerful reexamination of Biblical passages or of statements of Truth from the writings of Mrs. Eddy.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches us that man is the spiritual reflection, or expression, of the one God, Spirit, Mind, Love. This is very definitely implied in the first chapter of Genesis.
THE book of Genesis commences with two accounts of creation. The first declares unmistakably the goodness and perfection of creation, stating ( Gen.
IN the general Epistle of James we read ( 1:27 ), "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. " Christian Science is in accord with this definition of ideal religion and its demand for compassion and purity.
AT one time a student of Christian Science noted that the account of the lame man's healing at the pool of Bethesda in the fifth chapter of John appeared rather frequently in the Bible Lessons in the Christian Science Quarterly. She appreciated this healing by Jesus and had studied it each time to gain its spiritual lessons.