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The engrafted word

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Announcements › Forums › Sacrament — July 11th, 2021 › The engrafted word

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  • July 8, 2021 at 6:30 pm #12974
    JPalmer
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    Responsive Reading: James 1
    21. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

    The 1828 Webster’s Dictionary points from engraft to ingraft, and gives this definition:

    3. To plant or introduce something foreign into that which is native, for the purpose of propagation.
    4. To set or fix deep and firm.

    Before I arrived here, I definitely had that greater quantity than is wanted (1828 definition of superfluity) of wrong thinking and acting. Christian Science felt indeed foreign at first; but with time it has fixed itself so deeply within my consciousness that more-and-more I recognize Science as my native state from which all new growth stems, and all right thinking and acting are made possible. What a wonderful way for salvation to take place!

    Thank you so much for this lesson!

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