CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES.
! “Love” was the subject of the (Lesson-Sermon in all Churches ol Christ, Scientist, on Sunday. The Golden Text was Vsalms 03:1, 3: “0 God, Thou art my God . . . Because Thy loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise Thee.” Among the citations which comprised the Lesson-Sermon were the following from the Bible: “Owe no man anything but to love one another; for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou 'shalt not kill, Thou shalt. not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as ‘theyself.” (Rom. 13:8, 9.) Also the following passages from the Christian Science textbook, “Science and Health 'With Key to the Scriptures,” by Mary Baker Eddy: “The Christian Science God is universal, eternal, divine Love, which cliangeth not and eauseth no evil, disease, or death. Our system of Mindhealing rests on the apprehensions ol the nature and essence of all being—on the divine Mind and Love’s essential qualities. Its pharmaev is moral, and its medicine intellectual and spiritual. though used for physical healing.” (140, 4G0.)
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 211, 5 August 1940, Page 9
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