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Interpreting the Truth
Truth is always practical. But human misinterpretation of it sometimes makes it appear to be an untruth, or to be abstract and impractical.
Take, for example, the truth that man is timeless, ageless. He is because he reflects the infinite, eternal Mind, God. When we apply this truth correctly, we find that the effects of aging on the human body can be overcome. They are overcome, not because eternity is an abstraction, but because it is an all-encompassing truth that is demonstrable wherever it is rightly applied. There actually, in Truth, is no time. The effects of time yield because they are not of time itself, but of a belief in time—part of the belief in matter, of which time is a component.
However, when we attempt to translate literally the fact of timeless being into human terms, we may come up with some such reasoning as this: Truth demands that we take no account of age when hiring employees. A difference in ages has nothing whatever to do with marital happiness. Or, people should be invited to vote, or to join a church, without reference to their years. To carry this so-called logic to the point of absurdity, we could say it is unscientific to pay attention to dates or office hours, or to carry a watch, and a two-year-old should be encouraged to drive the family car.
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December 9, 1972 issue
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No Distant Hope
HELEN B. CHILDS
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Physical Fitness
GODFREY JOHN
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The Children's Christmas
VIRGINIA A. MILLER
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The Simplicity of the Christ
DOROTHY H. JONES
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Motorcycling with God
M. ETHEL HEFFERNAN
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Spiritual Recognition
ESME A. GOLLSCHEWSKY
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About the Bible
FLORENCE MARY MASON
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Interpreting the Truth
Carl J. Welz
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Solving the Identity Problem
Alan A. Aylwin
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Mary Martin Larsen with contributions from Betty Wolfe Hagerman, Clifford B. Hagerman
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When I look back over the years, I remember with great gratitude...
Ursula Mary Daley with contributions from David Lewis Degler
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Many would agree that God is "a very present help in trouble"...
David Littlefield Horn
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I have always been grateful that when Christian Science was...
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