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Our Annual Meeting: Its Significance
The Annual Meeting of The Mother Church proclaims to the world the unity of good appearing in the Christian Science organization, a unity which members are equipped to prove in the very face of temptation to indulge the dissensions of mortal mind. As this scientific fact of all-inclusive unity in the one infinite Mind is proved first throughout our movement, this spiritual unity will extend in blessedness to all the world, blotting out its disagreements, healing its breaches.
In connection with the ark and the mercy seat, we note this divine promise given to Moses: "And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat." Unmerciful thoughts withdraw before the mercy seat, for mercy is a quality of infinite Love which knows no evil, no censure; and communion with divine Mind is a hallowing influence bearing fruit in the honest heart. As we prepare ourselves to receive the outpoured blessings of divine Love, the Annual Meeting is to us a sign of the times, an evidence that the prophecy regarding the leaven "which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened," is being fulfilled, and in this fulfillment each one is called upon to play his individual part.
When the apostles were "all with one accord in one place" on the day of Pentecost, we read that "they were all filled with the Holy Ghost." This spiritual experience is repeated at the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church in the measure that its deep purpose is held sacred in the heart of each member. Referring to the Annual Meeting as "a grave guardian," Mrs. Eddy writes (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 125), "It requires you to report progress, to refresh memory, to rejuvenate the branches and to vivify the buds, to bend upward the tendrils and to incline the vine towards the parent trunk."
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June 2, 1934 issue
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Overcoming through Right Thinking
CAROLINE GETTY
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The Privileges of Our Movement
J. MARSHALL HALL
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The Realm of Reality
ROBERT ELLIS KEY
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Unfolding Acquaintance with God
HELEN FANSHAWE CARR
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"Provoke unto love"
ARLENE WEATHERSBEE
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"Oh, I see!"
LESLIE BURN ANDREAE
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Good Times
ALICE CORTRIGHT
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Thy Secret Place
STELLA L. MYATT
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Your issue of January 7 carried a news item in which a...
Leicester LeMont Jackson, Committee on Publication for the State of Alabama,
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In reply to the article in the November number of Die Auslese...
General August Kundinger, Committee on Publication for Germany,
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A bishop in his address at the Bristol Cathedral is...
Mrs. Mary Blanch Jones, Committee on Publication for Gloucestershire, England,
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The teachings of Christian Science are both Christian...
Address by Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California, before the School of Religion of the University of Southern California,
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Onward, Christian Scientists!
W. Stuart Booth
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Our Annual Meeting: Its Significance
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Robert Neal Thompson, Wanda Lukes, Ella M. Conwell
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About eighteen years ago I attended my first Christian Science...
C. Wm. Orton Schmults
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Although my gratitude to Christian Science is boundless,...
Katheryn Law Gardner
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Seven years ago I turned to Christian Science after all...
Adaline W. Sanders
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It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I tell of the many...
Ernest Whitfield
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I should like to express gratitude for the wonderful peace...
Anne Marjorie Young
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In the year 1913, after I had had thirty years of trouble...
Frank L. Pallies
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Through many vicissitudes Christian Science has been...
Catherine Kendall
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Waters of Shiloah
ALMA L. GRAY
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Jason Noble Pierce, Dean Nixon, C. T. Rae, Rita McFarlane, Smuts, Mayer Winkler, C. L. Cartwright