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PURE Christianity's teaching is that God is Spirit; His kingdom a mental abode in the affections of man; His reign a glorious and everlasting one; that the signs or fruits of the kingdom are found in the exercise of divine qualities, such as spiritual activity, goodness, righteousness, truthfulness, love; and that the citizens of the kingdom are men and women under the control of supreme wisdom, reflecting God's power in intelligent and loving dominion over God's lesser ideas. Even while he tarried among men St.

No student of current religious life and happenings can have failed to note the tendency of its propaganda, as a whole, toward educational methods. The appeal to the emotions, and especially to fear, which has characterized most evangelical efforts, has largely given place to the appeal to intelligence.

There is no incident in the New Testament but will be found upon analysis to have some profound meaning at the back of the simple fact related. Mrs.

What is known as Christian Science treatment is often misunderstood by those who are not students of this Science, and is imperfectly understood even by some who are, that phase of treatment commonly called "paying the practitioner" being as little understood as the rest. A frequent misconception is that the definite provision of pay for a practitioner is solely for the benefit of the practitioner, whereas it is of at least equal benefit to the one who seeks help.

The first desire for spirituality that the writer can remember was occasioned when her mother sang to her the familiar hymn,— I think, when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus was here among men, How he called little children as lambs to his fold, I should like to have been with him then. The longing thus expressed became her own when a book of Bible stories was read aloud.

Throughout all the ages the world has been growing more and more spiritual; unconsciously it has been molded by a leavening power which proves that God works whether men will it or not. In this period thought has burst forth, like Aaron's rod, into blossom,—the expression of the spiritual idea of God,—and Mrs.

Who of mature years, after buffeting with the world and its disappointments, finding more of failure than success, more of sorrow than joy, had not longed for some sure refuge from the intrusion of material discords? All about us is seen the result of these discords. Sin, sickness, and death furnish evidence of material decay, reminding mortals of an untimely end.

It would sometimes seem as though our individual relation to the Wednesday evening meeting was not fully appreciated by all. Even in a large church, where every moment should be crowded by expressions of gratitude, strange lapses have sometimes left a wondering inquiry in the mind of the visitor.

On page 427 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says, "Immortal Mind, governing all, must be acknowledged as supreme in the physical realm, so-called, as well as in the spiritual.

Christian Science is bringing the human mind to see that it cannot correctly conceive of God as apart from the universe which reflects Him. Whatever God is, is reflected in His creation.