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    The People's Idea of God Its Effect On Health And Christianity
    The People's Idea of God Its Effect On Health And Christianity
    The People's Idea of God Its Effect On Health And Christianity
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    The People's Idea of God Its Effect On Health And Christianity

    By Mary Baker Eddy

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The People's Idea of God Its Effect On Health And Christianity - Mary Baker Eddy

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      Title: The People's Idea of God Its Effect On Health And Christianity

      Author: Mary Baker Eddy

      Release Date: January 26, 2011 [EBook #35081]

      Language: English

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      THE

      PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD

      ITS EFFECT ON

      HEALTH AND CHRISTIANITY

      BY

      MARY BAKER EDDY

      AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES

      A SERMON DELIVERED AT BOSTON

      Published by

      The Christian Science Publishing Society

      FOR THE TRUSTEES UNDER THE WILL OF MARY BAKER G. EDDY

      BOSTON, U.S.A.

      Authorized Literature of

      The First Church of Christ, Scientist

      in Boston, Massachusetts

      Copyright, 1886, 1908

      By Mary Baker G. Eddy

      Copyright renewed, 1914

      All rights reserved

      SERMON

      SUBJECT

      THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD

      Text: One Lord, one faith, one baptism.—Ephesians iv. 5.

      Every step of progress is a step more spiritual. The great element of reform is not born of human wisdom; it draws not its life from human organizations; rather is it the crumbling away of material elements from reason, the translation of law back to its original language,—Mind, and the final unity between man and God. The footsteps of thought, as they pass from the sensual side of existence to the reality and Soul of all things, are slow, portending a long night to the traveller; but the guardians of the gloom are the angels of His presence, that impart grandeur to the intellectual wrestling and collisions with old-time faiths, as we drift

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