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Mary Baker Eddy

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Other Writings
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Miscellaneous Writings
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Questions and Answers
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Do we not see in the commonly accepted teachings of the day, the Christ-idea mingled with the teachings of John the Baptist? or, rather, Are not the last eighteen centuries but the footsteps of Truth being baptized of John, and coming up straightway out of the ceremonial (or ritualistic) waters to receive the benediction of an honored Father, and afterwards to go up into the wilderness, in order to overcome mortal sense, before it shall go forth into all the cities and towns of Judea, or see many of the people from beyond Jordan? Now, if all this be a fair or correct view of this question, why does not John hear this voice, or see the dove, — or has not Truth yet reached the shore?
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This chapter #3 is comprised of 90 questions and answers.
  	    Do we not see in the commonly accepted teachings of the
  	day, the Christ-idea mingled with the teachings of John
12	the Baptist? or, rather, Are not the last eighteen centuries
  	but the footsteps of Truth being baptized of John, and com-
  	ing up straightway out of the ceremonial (or ritualistic)
15	waters to receive the benediction of an honored Father, and
  	afterwards to go up into the wilderness, in order to over-
  	come mortal sense, before it shall go forth into all the cities
18	and towns of Judea, or see many of the people from beyond
  	Jordan? Now, if all this be a fair or correct view of this
  	question, why does not John hear this voice, or see the
21	dove, — or has not Truth yet reached the shore? 

  	    Every individual character, like the individual John
  	the Baptist, at some date must cry in the desert of
24	earthly joy; and his voice be heard divinely and
  	humanly. In the desolation of human understanding,
  	divine Love hears and answers the human call for help;
27	and the voice of Truth utters the divine verities of being
  	which deliver mortals out of the depths of ignorance
  	and vice. This is the Father's benediction. It gives
30	lessons to human life, guides the understanding, peoples
 
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 1	the mind with spiritual ideas, reconstructs the Judean
  	religion, and reveals God and man as the Principle and
 3	idea of all goo...
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