Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First Church of Christ, Scientist, Cambridge, Brattle Hall, Sunday, 10.45 A. M. Subject of lesson-sermon, "Are Sin, Disease and Death Real?" Sunday school, 10.45. Testimonial meeting, Wednesday, 7.45 P. M. Reading Room, 11 Dunster Street. Open week days, 10 A. M; close Wednesday, 7.15; Saturday, 9.30; other days...
...said that the business of the clergy was to deal with sin, righteousness, and judgment--questions of right and wrong instead of with controversial questions on which honest men might differ. The mission of the ministry should be to point the way to things of eternal and imperishable value...
...Christian Science regards as real only that which can be attributed to God, the only real cause, precluding any effect from any other cause. Evil, discord, sin and disease have no relation with God or his perfect creation, hence are unreal. All mankind, striving to be rid of evil, instinctively repudiates it in their thought as being unnatural, hence in the last analysis unreal. Though very real to the material sense, sin, sickness and discord, judged in the light of the spiritual sense of being which overrules and transcends material sense, are seen to be false claims about true life...
...have awakened to the unreality of one concept, as old as the human species, namely that of autocracy, in its aggressive political phases. Therefore every one should awaken to the unreality of every evil concept, all sin and disease, and cast it out of his consciousness. God is not on the side of cancer or influenza any more than of autocracy. Even greater than our right to political self-government is our right and ability to resist and overthrow the attempts of evil to rule us boldly and mentally...
...hybrid children of warmer parts of our country. Austerity--not "lure"--is the chief characteristic of the "stern daughter of the Voice of God". And there is, too, a certain shyness and self consciousness about New Englanders that, taken with the conviction latent in their bones that gaiety and sin are somehow related, makes them advance slowly in friendship and embarrassed about their emotions even when these are entirely respectable...