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Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter 8 ~ Footsteps of Truth ~ Subtitles

Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy ~ 1910 Final Ed.

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We now realize that these longed-for footsteps to Truth which we are faithfully trying to fulfil are only possible of fulfilment because they are in fact footsteps leading out from Truth. It is a cycle. Perfection may seem to be an absolute goal, an impossible ideal, but these demands of Truth upon us can be fulfilled because our footsteps are actually the footsteps of Truth itself. At the end of this chapter we are told, "The divine demand, 'Be ye SHOW ALL
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1 1 201 Intro Quote 1. Psalms 89 verse 50 and 51 Psalms 89 verse 50 and 51 - Intro Quote 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of Thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; 51 wherewith Thine enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of Thine anointed. — Psalms.
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Practical preaching
 1	    The best sermon ever preached is Truth practised
  	and demonstrated by the destruction of sin, sickness,
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The uses of truth
  	    We cannot fill vessels already full. They must first be
  	emptied. Let us disrobe error. Then, when	                 SHOW ALL
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Divine study
 6	    If men would bring to bear upon the study of the
  	Science of Mind half the faith they bestow upon the so-
  	called pains and pleasures of material sense,	     SHOW ALL
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Harmonious life-work
15	    Outside of this Science all is mutable; but immortal
  	man, in accord with the divine Principle of his being,
  	God, neither sins, suffers, nor dies. The days	        SHOW ALL
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Belief and practice
24	    Our beliefs about a Supreme Being contradict the
  	practice growing out of them. Error abounds where
  	Truth should "much more abound." We	             SHOW ALL
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Sure reward of righteousness
  	    Common opinion admits that a man may take cold in
  	the act of doing good, and that this cold may produce
 1	fatal pulmonary disease; as though evil could overbear
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Our belief and understanding
  	    If God were understood instead of being merely be-
  	lieved, this understanding would establish health. The
 9	accusation of the rabbis, "He made himself	           SHOW ALL
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Suicide and sin
  	    We are prone to believe either in more than one Su-
18	preme Ruler or in some power less than God. We im-
  	agine that Mind can be imprisoned in a sensuous body. 
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Spirit the only intelligence and substance
 3	    All forms of error support the false conclusions that
  	there is more than one Life; that material history is as
  	real and living as spiritual history; that mortal	      SHOW ALL
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Unscientific theories
18	    Such theories are evidently erroneous. They can never
  	stand the test of Science. Judging them by their fruits,
  	they are corrupt. When will the ages under-	         SHOW ALL
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Creation perfect
  	    When will the error of believing that there is life in
  	matter, and that sin, sickness, and death are creations of
 9	God, be unmasked? When will it be under-	     SHOW ALL
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Perceiving the divine image
15	    Befogged in error (the error of believing that matter
  	can be intelligent for good or evil), we can catch clear
  	glimpses of God only as the mists disperse,	       SHOW ALL
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Redemption from selfishness
  	    When we realize that there is one Mind, the divine law
  	of loving our neighbor as ourselves is unfolded;	               SHOW ALL
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Will-power unrighteous
  	    The power of the human will should be exercised only
  	in subordination to Truth; else it will misguide the judg-
 6	ment and free the lower propensities. It is the	     SHOW ALL
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Birth and death unreal
  	    Does God send sickness, giving the mother her child
  	for the brief space of a few years and then taking it away
21	by death? Is God creating anew what He	     SHOW ALL
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No evil in Spirit
  	    There are evil beliefs, often called evil spirits; but
 1	these evils are not Spirit, for there is no evil in Spirit. 
  	Because God is Spirit, evil becomes more apparent and
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Subordination of evil
  	    God is not the creator of an evil mind. Indeed, evil
 9	is not Mind. We must learn that evil is the awful decep-
  	tion and unreality of existence. Evil is not	   SHOW ALL
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Evident impossibilities
15	    Body is not first and Soul last, nor is evil mightier than
  	good. The Science of being repudiates self-	                 SHOW ALL
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One primal cause
  	    There is but one primal cause. Therefore there can
21	be no effect from any other cause, and there can be no
  	reality in aught which does not proceed from	      SHOW ALL
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Seemingly independent authority
  	    The Scriptures say, "In Him we live, and move, and
 6	have our being." What then is this seeming power, in-
  	dependent of God, which causes disease and	       SHOW ALL
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Sickness as only thought
  	    Mind, not matter, is causation. A material body
  	only expresses a material and mortal mind. A mortal
27	man possesses this body, and he makes it	          SHOW ALL
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Allness of Truth
  	    Mind, supreme over all its formations and governing
 6	them all, is the central sun of its own systems of ideas,
  	the life and light of all its own vast creation;	    SHOW ALL
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Spiritual translation
  	    The compounded minerals or aggregated substances
  	composing the earth, the relations which constituent
18	masses hold to each other, the magnitudes,	               SHOW ALL
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Jesus’ disregard of matter
  	    The Principle and proof of Christianity are discerned
 6	by spiritual sense. They are set forth in Jesus' demon-
  	strations, which show — by his healing the	        SHOW ALL
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Mind not mortal
  	    The expression mortal mind is really a solecism, for
  	Mind is immortal, and Truth pierces the error of mortality
21	as a sunbeam penetrates the cloud. Because,	         SHOW ALL
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Matter mindless
  	    What is termed matter, being unintelligent, cannot say,
  	"I suffer, I die, I am sick, or I am well." It is the so-
27	called mortal mind which voices this and ap-	    SHOW ALL
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Matter sensationless
  	    The sensations of the body must either be the sensa-
  	tions of a so-called mortal mind or of matter. Nerves
 9	are not mind. Is it not provable that Mind is	    SHOW ALL
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Nerves painless
24	    If it is true that nerves have sensation, that matter has
  	intelligence, that the material organism causes the eyes to
  	see and the ears to hear, then, when the body	     SHOW ALL
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Human falsities
  	    Mortals have a modus of their own, undirected and un-
18	sustained by God. They produce a rose through seed and
  	soil, and bring the rose into contact with the	      SHOW ALL
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No miracles in Mind-methods
  	    Because all the methods of Mind are not understood,
  	we say the lips or hands must move in order to convey
27	thought, that the undulations of the air convey	      SHOW ALL
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Good indefinable
 6	    Mortal mind conceives of something as either liquid
  	or solid, and then classifies it materially. Immortal and
  	spiritual facts exist apart from this mortal and	         SHOW ALL
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Music rhythm of head and heart
  	    Mozart experienced more than he expressed. The
21	rapture of his grandest symphonies was never heard. He
  	was a musician beyond what the world knew. 	          SHOW ALL
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Adam and the senses
 9	    Adam, represented in the Scriptures as formed from
  	dust, is an object-lesson for the human mind. The mate-
  	rial senses, like Adam, originate in matter and	        SHOW ALL
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Idolatrous illusions
18	    We bow down to matter, and entertain finite thoughts
  	of God like the pagan idolater. Mortals are inclined to
  	fear and to obey what they consider a material	       SHOW ALL
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The senses of Soul
  	    How transient a sense is mortal sight, when a wound on
27	the retina may end the power of light and lens! But the
  	real sight or sense is not lost. Neither age nor	  SHOW ALL
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Real being never lost
  	    If Spirit, Soul, could sin or be lost, then being and im-
  	mortality would be lost, together with all the faculties of
 6	Mind; but being cannot be lost while God ex-	   SHOW ALL
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Light and darkness
15	    We are sometimes led to believe that darkness is as real
  	as light; but Science affirms darkness to be only a mortal
  	sense of the absence of light, at the coming of	   SHOW ALL
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Faith of Socrates
27	    Because he understood the superiority and immor-
  	tality of good, Socrates feared not the hemlock poison. 
  	Even the faith of his philosophy spurned phys-	          SHOW ALL
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The serpent of error
 3	    Who shall say that man is alive to-day, but may be dead
  	to-morrow? What has touched Life, God, to such
  	strange issues? Here theories cease, and Sci-	       SHOW ALL
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Servants and masters
  	    The understanding that the Ego is Mind, and that
12	there is but one Mind or intelligence, begins at once to
  	destroy the errors of mortal sense and to supply	      SHOW ALL
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Personal identity
  	    When you say, "Man's  body is material," I say with
  	Paul:  Be "willing rather to be absent from the body,
30	and to be present with the Lord." Give up	    SHOW ALL
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Paul’s experience
 6	    Medical schools may inform us that the healing work
  	of Christian Science and Paul's peculiar Christian con-
  	version and experience, — which prove Mind	          SHOW ALL
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Fatigue is mental
15	    That scientific methods are superior to others, is
  	seen by their effects. When you have once conquered
  	a diseased condition of the body through	           SHOW ALL
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Mind never weary
 3	    You do not say a wheel is fatigued; and yet the body
  	is as material as the wheel. If it were not for what the
  	human mind says of the body, the body, SHOW ALL
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Coalition of sin and sickness
 9	    The body is supposed to say, "I am ill." The reports
  	of sickness may form a coalition with the reports of sin,
  	and say, "I am malice, lust, appetite, envy,	    SHOW ALL
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Sickness akin to sin
  	    Why pray for the recovery of the sick, if you are with-
18	out faith in God's willingness and ability to heal them? 
  	If you do believe in God, why do you sub-	  SHOW ALL
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Affirmation and result
 6	    In mathematics, we do not multiply when we should
  	subtract, and then say the product is correct. No more
  	can we say in Science that muscles give strength,	      SHOW ALL
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Scientific beginning
  	    We may hear a sweet melody, and yet misunderstand
24	the science that governs it. Those who are healed
  	through metaphysical Science, not compre-	            SHOW ALL
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Hygiene ineffectual
 1	    We hear it said: "I exercise daily in the open air. I
  	take cold baths, in order to overcome a predisposition to
 3	take cold; and yet I have continual colds,	     SHOW ALL
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The reflex phenomena
18	    Mortal mind produces its own phenomena, and then
  	charges them to something else, — like a kitten	                   SHOW ALL
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Volition far-reaching
  	    The belief that either fasting or feasting makes men
27	better morally or physically is one of the fruits of "the
  	tree of the knowledge of good and evil," con-	      SHOW ALL
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Starvation and dyspepsia
 1	    I knew a person who when quite a child adopted the
  	Graham system to cure dyspepsia. For many years, he
 3	ate only bread and vegetables, and drank noth-	       SHOW ALL
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Mind and stomach
  	    This new-born understanding, that neither food nor
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Life only in Spirit
  	    In seeking a cure for dyspepsia consult matter not at
30	all, and eat what is set before you, "asking	                 SHOW ALL
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Soul greater than body
  	    Matter does not express Spirit. God is infinite omni-
  	present Spirit. If Spirit is all and is everywhere, what
 9	and where is matter? Remember that truth	        SHOW ALL
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The question of the ages
  	    The question, "What is Truth," convulses the world. 
15	Many are ready to meet this inquiry with the assurance
  	which comes of understanding; but more are	         SHOW ALL
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Heralds of Science
  	    Peals that should startle the slumbering thought from
  	its erroneous dream are partially unheeded; but the last
27	trump has not sounded, or this would not be	         SHOW ALL
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Sectarianism and opposition
  	    In the record of nineteen centuries, there are sects
12	many but not enough Christianity. Centuries ago re-
  	ligionists were ready to hail an anthropomor-	           SHOW ALL
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Mental emancipation
  	    Truth brings the elements of liberty. On its banner
  	is the Soul-inspired motto, "Slavery is abolished." The
30	power of God brings deliverance to the cap-	          SHOW ALL
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Truth’s ordeal
  	    You may know when first Truth leads by the few-
 6	ness and faithfulness of its followers. Thus it is that
  	the march of time bears onward freedom's	       SHOW ALL
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Immortal sentences
	    The history of our country, like all history, illustrates
15	the might of Mind, and shows human power to be propor-
  	tionate to its embodiment of right thinking. A	         SHOW ALL
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Slavery abolished
  	    Legally to abolish unpaid servitude in the United
24	States was hard; but the abolition of mental slavery is
  	a more difficult task. The despotic tenden-	          SHOW ALL
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Liberty’s crusade
  	    The voice of God in behalf of the African slave was
 6	still echoing in our land, when the voice of the herald of
  	this new crusade sounded the keynote of uni-	   SHOW ALL
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Cramping systems
  	    God has built a higher platform of human rights, and
15	He has built it on diviner claims. These claims are not
  	made through code or creed, but in demonstra-	      SHOW ALL
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House of bondage
  	    The lame, the deaf, the dumb, the blind, the sick, the
  	sensual, the sinner, I wished to save from the slavery of
27	their own beliefs and from the educational	      SHOW ALL
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Higher law ends bondage
 3	    I saw that the law of mortal belief included all error,
  	and that, even as oppressive laws are disputed and mor-
  	tals are taught their right to freedom, so the	    SHOW ALL
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Native freedom
  	    Discerning the rights of man, we cannot fail to fore-
15	see the doom of all oppression. Slavery is not the legiti-
  	mate state of man. God made man free. 	     SHOW ALL
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Liberty - Standard of liberty
21	    Christian Science raises the standard of liberty and
  	cries: "Follow me! Escape from the bondage of sick-
  	ness, sin, and death!" Jesus marked out the	          SHOW ALL
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No fleshly heredity
 3	    The transmission of disease or of certain idiosyncra-
  	sies of mortal mind would be impossible if this great fact
  	of being were learned, — namely, that nothing	       SHOW ALL
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God-given dominion
  	    The enslavement of man is not legitimate. It will
12	cease when man enters into his heritage of freedom, his
  	God-given dominion over the material senses. 	         SHOW ALL
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Priestly pride humbled
  	    There is no power apart from God. Omnipotence has
  	all-power, and to acknowledge any other power is to dis-
27	honor God. The humble Nazarene overthrew	          SHOW ALL
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No union of opposites
  	    We should hesitate to say that Jehovah sins or suffers;
 6	but if sin and suffering are realities of being, whence did
  	they emanate? God made all that was made,	     SHOW ALL
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Self-constituted law
15	    By universal consent, mortal belief has constituted
  	itself a law to bind mortals to sickness, sin, and death. 
  	This customary belief is misnamed material	          SHOW ALL
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Sickness from mortal mind
  	    If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good,
24	and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He
  	makes is good and will stand forever. If the	    SHOW ALL
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God never inconsistent
  	    It would be contrary to our highest ideas of God to
12	suppose Him capable of first arranging law and causation
  	so as to bring about certain evil results, and	      SHOW ALL
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Mental narcotics
  	    Does wisdom make blunders which must afterwards
  	be rectified by man? Does a law of God produce sick-
21	ness, and can man put that law under his feet	       SHOW ALL
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The true healing
27	    We think that we are healed when a disease disap-
  	pears, though it is liable to reappear; but we are never
  	thoroughly healed until the liability to be	       SHOW ALL
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Destruction of all evil
 3	    Unless an ill is rightly met and fairly overcome by
  	Truth, the ill is never conquered. If God destroys not
  	sin, sickness, and death, they are not de-	      SHOW ALL
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Superiority to sickness and sin
  	    To hold yourself superior to sin, because God made
21	you superior to it and governs man, is true wisdom. To
  	fear sin is to misunderstand the power of Love	      SHOW ALL
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Denials of divine power
 3	    Many theories relative to God and man neither make
  	man harmonious nor God lovable. The beliefs we com-
  	monly entertain about happiness and life	          SHOW ALL
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Signs following
  	    In the sacred sanctuary of Truth are voices of sol-
27	emn import, but we heed them not. It is only when the
  	so-called pleasures and pains of sense pass	      SHOW ALL
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Profession and proof
  	    There is neither place nor opportunity in Science for error
 1	of any sort. Every day makes its demands upon us for
  	higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power. 
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Perfection gained slowly
  	    In the midst of imperfection, perfection is seen and
 9	acknowledged only by degrees. The ages must slowly
  	work up to perfection. How long it must be	        SHOW ALL
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Christ’s mission
  	    Already the shadow of His right hand rests upon the
  	hour. Ye who can discern the face of the sky, — the
18	sign material, — how much more should ye	     SHOW ALL
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Efficacy of truth
  	    When numbers have been divided according to a fixed
  	rule, the quotient is not more unquestionable than the
27	scientific tests I have made of the effects of	        SHOW ALL
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Crumbs of comfort Whatever inspires with wisdom, Truth, or Love — be it song, sermon, or Science — blesses the human family 6 with crumbs of comfort from Christ's table, Crumbs of feeding the hungry and giving living waters to comfort the thirsty.
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Hospitality to health and good
 9	    We should become more familiar with good than with
  	evil, and guard against false beliefs as watchfully as we
  	bar our doors against the approach of thieves	       SHOW ALL
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Cleansing the mind
  	    If mortals would keep proper ward over mortal mind,
18	the brood of evils which infest it would be cleared out. 
  	We must begin with this so-called mind and	      SHOW ALL
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Teachers’ functions
  	    The teachers of schools and the readers in churches
  	should be selected with as direct reference to their
 9	morals as to their learning or their correct	        SHOW ALL
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Physicians’ privilege
  	    Physicians, whom the sick employ in their helplessness,
  	should be models of virtue. They should be wise spir-
21	itual guides to health and hope. To the trem-	        SHOW ALL
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Clergymen’s duty
  	    Clergymen, occupying the watchtowers of the world,
  	should uplift the standard of Truth. They should so raise
30	their hearers spiritually, that their listeners	            SHOW ALL
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Responsibility - A mother’s responsibility
12	    A mother is the strongest educator, either for or
  	against crime. Her thoughts form the embryo of an-
  	other mortal mind, and unconsciously mould	           SHOW ALL
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Children’s tractability
21	    Children should obey their parents; insubordination
  	is an evil, blighting the buddings of self-government. 
  	Parents should teach their children at the	             SHOW ALL
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Soil and seed
  	    It might have been months or years before her parents
  	would have laid aside their drugs, or reached the mental
 9	height their little daughter so naturally at-	       SHOW ALL
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Teaching children
15	    Children should be taught the Truth-cure, Christian
  	Science, among their first lessons, and kept from discuss-
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Deluded invalids
  	    Some invalids are unwilling to know the facts or to
24	hear about the fallacy of matter and its supposed laws. 
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Patient waiting
 1	    Motives and acts are not rightly valued before they are
  	understood. It is well to wait till those whom you would
 3	benefit are ready for the blessing, for Science	      SHOW ALL
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Unimproved opportunities
12	    To fall away from Truth in times of persecution, shows
  	that we never understood Truth. From out the bridal
  	chamber of wisdom there will come the warn-	        SHOW ALL
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Society and intolerance
  	    Society is a foolish juror, listening only to one side of
  	the case. Justice often comes too late to secure a verdict. 
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Right views of humanity
  	    Take away wealth, fame, and social organizations,
 6	which weigh not one jot in the balance of God, and we
  	get clearer views of Principle. Break up	        SHOW ALL
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Standpoint revealed
  	    To ascertain our progress, we must learn where our
  	affections are placed and whom we acknowledge and
18	obey as God. If divine Love is becoming	          SHOW ALL
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Antagonistic sources
  	    Mortal mind is the acknowledged seat of human mo-
24	tives. It forms material concepts and produces every
  	discordant action of the body. If action pro-	          SHOW ALL
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Some lessons from nature
 1	    Nature voices natural, spiritual law and divine Love,
  	but human belief misinterprets nature. Arctic regions,
 3	sunny tropics, giant hills, winged winds,	              SHOW ALL
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Perpetual motion
  	    In the order of Science, in which the Principle is above
  	what it reflects, all is one grand concord. Change this
12	statement, suppose Mind to be governed by	       SHOW ALL
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Progress demanded
18	    Mortals move onward towards good or evil as time
  	glides on. If mortals are not progressive, past failures
  	will be repeated until all wrong work is ef-	        SHOW ALL
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The doom of sin
  	    Sensual treasures are laid up "where moth and rust
 6	doth corrupt." Mortality is their doom. Sin breaks in
  	upon them, and carries off their fleeting joys. 	       SHOW ALL
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Spirit transforms
  	    The Bible teaches transformation of the body by the
  	renewal of Spirit. Take away the spiritual signification
15	of Scripture, and that compilation can do no	          SHOW ALL
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Spiritual baptism
  	    It is "easier for a camel to go through the eye of a
  	needle," than for sinful beliefs to enter the kingdom of
 1	heaven, eternal harmony. Through repentance, spiritual
  	baptism, and regeneration, SHOW ALL
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The one only way
 9	    There is but one way to heaven, harmony, and Christ
  	in divine Science shows us this way. It is to know no
  	other reality — to have no other conscious-	    SHOW ALL
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Divided vestments
21	    The vesture of Life is Truth. According to the Bible,
  	the facts of being are commonly misconstrued, for it is
  	written: "They parted my raiment among	         SHOW ALL
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Ancient and modern miracles
  	    The divine Love, which made harmless the poisonous
  	viper, which delivered men from the boiling oil, from
 6	the fiery furnace, from the jaws of the lion,	        SHOW ALL
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Mental telegraphy
  	    The clay cannot reply to the potter. The head, heart,
  	lungs, and limbs do not inform us that they are dizzy,
18	diseased, consumptive, or lame. If this in-	       SHOW ALL
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Annihilation of error Truth has no consciousness of error. Love has no sense of hatred. Life has no partnership Annihilation 27 with death. Truth, Life, and Love are a law of error of annihilation to everything unlike themselves, because they declare nothing except God.
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Deformity and perfection
30	    Sickness, sin, and death are not the fruits of Life. 
  	They are inharmonies which Truth destroys. Perfection
  	does not animate imperfection. Inasmuch as God is
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Man never less than man
  	    Man undergoing birth, maturity, and decay is like the
  	beasts and vegetables, — subject to laws of decay. If
15	man were dust in his earliest stage of exist-	       SHOW ALL
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Man not evolved
  	    Man in Science is neither young nor old. He has
24	neither birth nor death. He is not a beast, a vegetable,
  	nor a migratory mind. He does not pass from	     SHOW ALL
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Perpetual youth
  	    Disappointed in love in her early years, she became
 6	insane and lost all account of time. Believing that she
  	was still living in the same hour which parted	      SHOW ALL
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Man reflects God
  	    The infinite never began nor will it ever end. Mind
 1	and its formations can never be annihilated. Man is not
  	a pendulum, swinging between evil and good, joy and
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Undesirable records
  	    Never record ages. Chronological data are no part
18	of the vast forever. Time-tables of birth and death are
  	so many conspiracies against manhood and	           SHOW ALL
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True life eternal
27	    Life is eternal. We should find this out, and begin the
  	demonstration thereof. Life and goodness are immortal. 
  	Let us then shape our views of existence into	       SHOW ALL
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Eyes and teeth renewed
 3	    I have seen age regain two of the elements it had lost,
  	sight and teeth. A woman of eighty-five, whom I knew,
  	had a return of sight. Another woman at	    SHOW ALL
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Eternal beauty
  	    Beauty, as well as truth, is eternal; but the beauty
  	of material things passes away, fading and fleeting as
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The divine loveliness
  	    Comeliness and grace are independent of matter. Be-
  	ing possesses its qualities before they are perceived hu-
21	manly. Beauty is a thing of life, which	          SHOW ALL
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Love’s endowment
 3	    Love never loses sight of loveliness. Its halo rests upon
  	its object. One marvels that a friend can ever seem less
  	than beautiful. Men and women of riper	      SHOW ALL
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Mental sculpture
12	    The sculptor turns from the marble to his model in
  	order to perfect his conception. We are all sculptors,
  	working at various forms, moulding and chisel-	         SHOW ALL
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Perfect models
  	    To remedy this, we must first turn our gaze in the right
  	direction, and then walk that way. We must form perfect
27	models in thought and look at them continually,	     SHOW ALL
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Renewed selfhood
  	    Let the "male and female" of God's creating appear. 
 6	Let us feel the divine energy of Spirit, bringing us into
  	newness of life and recognizing no mortal nor	     SHOW ALL
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Illusive dreams
18	    Life is, like Christ, "the same yesterday, and to-day,
  	and forever." Organization and time have nothing to do
  	with Life. You say, "I dreamed last night." 	Illusive
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Philosophical blunders
  	    Man is the reflection of Soul. He is the direct oppo-
  	site of material sensation, and there is but one Ego. We
 1	run into error when we divide Soul into souls, multiply
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Spirit the one Ego
 6	    Mortal existence is a dream; mortal existence has no
  	real entity, but saith "It is I." Spirit is the Ego which
  	never dreams, but understands all things;	       SHOW ALL
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Mortal existence a dream
  	    Mortal body and mind are one, and that one is called
15	man; but a mortal is not man, for man is immortal. A
  	mortal may be weary or pained, enjoy or suffer,	   SHOW ALL
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Error self-destroyed
 1	    Error is not real, hence it is not more imperative
  	as it hastens towards self-destruction. The so-called
 3	belief of mortal mind apparent as an abscess	          SHOW ALL
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Illusion of death
  	    Fright is so great at certain stages of mortal belief
  	as to drive belief into new paths. In the illusion of
 9	death, mortals wake to the knowledge of two	     SHOW ALL
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Mortal mind’s disappearance
15	    We must learn how mankind govern the body, — 
  	whether through faith in hygiene, in drugs, or in will-
  	power. We should learn whether they govern	        SHOW ALL
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Spiritual ignorance
  	    Ignorance, like intentional wrong, is not Science. 
  	Ignorance must be seen and corrected before we can at-
30	tain harmony. Inharmonious beliefs, which	            SHOW ALL
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Eternal man recognized
  	    When false human beliefs learn even a little of their
  	own falsity, they begin to disappear. A knowledge of
 9	error and of its operations must precede that	       SHOW ALL
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Testimony of sense
15	    The false evidence of material sense contrasts strikingly
  	with the testimony of Spirit. Material sense lifts its voice
  	with the arrogance of reality and says: 
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Testimony of Soul
  	    Spirit, bearing opposite testimony, saith: 
  	    I am Spirit. Man, whose senses are spiritual, is my
 1	likeness. He reflects the infinite understanding, for I am
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Heaven-bestowed prerogative
 9	    I hope, dear reader, I am leading you into the under-
  	standing of your divine rights, your heaven-bestowed har-
  	mony, — that, as you read, you see there is no	    SHOW ALL
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Right endeavor possible
18	    If you believe in and practise wrong knowingly, you
  	can at once change your course and do right. Matter can
  	make no opposition to right endeavors against	        SHOW ALL
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Patience and final perfection
  	    The divine demand, "Be ye therefore perfect," is sci-
 1	entific, and the human footsteps leading to perfection are
  	indispensable. Individuals are consistent who, watching
 3	and praying, can "run, and not be weary; . SHOW ALL
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The cross and crown
24	    If you venture upon the quiet surface of error and are
  	in sympathy with error, what is there to disturb the waters? 
  	What is there to strip off error's disguise? 
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