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Spiritual Vitality
The world needs spiritual vitality. Too often vigor is expended in destructive or aimless directions, or perhaps too little vigor is manifested when right efforts are undertaken. Christian Science straightens out the subject by showing that true vitality is from God and that it only awaits release in human thought through the knowledge of man and his relation to his animating Principle, his divine source.
Sometimes students of Christian Science seem well fitted to enter the public practice of this Science, but they lack the spiritual vitality that they need to plunge them into the full-scale dedication to the truth of being which the practice requires. Animal magnetism, or evil mind, would chill the love that is needed for this service. But an honest appraisal of reluctance to help enlighten the race and a persistent denial of that reluctance as unnatural and unreal will bring to light the vigor needed. Laziness, unwillingness to abandon professions less exacting in self-denial, and a paucity of compassion may be among the unhandled suggestions of the carnal mind, which stand in the way of the spiritual vitality needed.
This vitality is natural to man, God's likeness, and the student should be awake to the potential of spiritual vigor latent in everyone. Christ Jesus understood this potential so well that he could rouse spiritual vigor instantly by the touch of his Christly compassion. He made ardent disciples, and continues to do so to this day. He said of his followers (John 10:10), "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
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August 15, 1964 issue
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Yielding to God's Will
JAMES K. KYSER
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"A little more grace"
LAURA E. LOVETT MURPHY
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Purity
JOHN H. WILLIAMS
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"We are not divided"
HELEN OAKLEY ROCKHOLD
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FROM SENSE TO SOUL
Grace Lillian Snell
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Let Us Challenge Weariness
JOHN B. WEBB
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Spiritual Ideas Bring Deliverance
LA VONA LINHARDT
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"WHAT IS THAT TO THEE?"
Winifred A. Yates
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Debbie Learns a Lesson
NANCY WITTERS
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Spiritual Vitality
Helen Wood Bauman
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Let's Destroy Domination
Carl J. Welz
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I began studying our textbook,...
Lorenzina Cerise
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Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and...
J. Henry Ball
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Many years ago when I had only...
Mary E. Stanley
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I have many reasons to be grateful...
Gertrude Rumpf
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In the past two years I have had...
John R. Cox
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Words are inadequate to express...
May B. Ingram
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I am happy to testify to the...
Katharine Marian Gover with contributions from L. Muriel Gover
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from John Marvin Rast, W. D. Adams