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Q. Then is your human love the love which God demands?A. It is not. Q. Are you a metaphysician?A. I claim to be. Q. Do you abide by the first rule of Being and demonstrate...
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justification to those Christian Scientists who, from her own day on, have veered off into a kind of generalized ontological euphoria, unrelated to the exigencies of living.Yet even in this unsucce...
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church organization that would lend itself, by her reckoning, to the transformation of its members’ lives rather than the mere enlistment of their loyalties.The great necessity, as Mrs. Eddy saw it...
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is in bondage thereto. Mortal man must sacrifice the good that seems to be in matter if he would escape the evil that matter produces, for the one is as real as the othe...
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Without wasting any time, Mrs. Eddy moved to form her church.The building site in Boston which had been returned by the trustees to Knapp (acting as unacknowledged agent for Mrs. Eddy) was quitclai...
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Key to the Scriptures”: “An improved belief is one step out of error, and aids in taking the next step and in understanding the situation in Christian Science” (p. 296)....
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years. These students were invited to meet together on August 29 to form a corporation to be known as First Church of Christ, Scientist.The meeting was held in the Dartmouth Street rooms of Julia B...
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as the beginning of a significant experiment in the development of a federal system of church government, lay in character, theocratic in aim, but depending for effectiveness on a creative tension...
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The years 1903 to 1906 were years of immense prosperity and growth for Christian Science. Already, in her annual message to the church in 1902, Mrs. Eddy had commented: “With no special effort to a...
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congregationalism from the earlier organization—an element which continued in full force, however, in the self-governing “branch churches” throughout the country. All members of The Mother Church m...