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The Lion Is Chained
Discussing the effects of fear and the prevention of it, Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "Gazing at a chained lion, crouched for a spring, should not terrify a man. The body is affected only with the belief of disease produced by a so-called mind ignorant of the truth which chains disease." Science and Health, p. 380;
Usually when someone is afraid, we try to assure him that everything will come out all right. Or if we can't do that, we try in some way to convince him that all is for the best, or that God takes care of us, win or lose. But there is a better answer to the threat of disaster. Fear itself is ignorance, error, that can be dispelled regardless of the conditions one faces.
In fact, fear seems to be closely bound up with the conditions one thinks he is afraid of. Mortals believe the picture of impending disaster comes first, but it doesn't come first. Neither does the fear come first.
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August 26, 1972 issue
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Finding the Counter Fact
WILLIAM MILFORD CORRELL
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A Well-balanced Home
AURIEL WYNDHAM ADAMS
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"His arm encircles me"
FLINT LEWIS TOWNSEND
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Communication: New and Old
LARNED L. TUTTLE
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Shine Forth!
ELOISE P. HENDRICK
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Right Thinking Is Our Responsibility
JOHN PRESTON BULLARD
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The Child: A Clean Page
WINIFRED BROWN KING
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Peace Right Where You Are
LEONORA-LOUISE GESNER
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from a Sunday School Girl
ELIZABETH BAYLOG READ (age 9)
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The Lion Is Chained
Carl J. Welz
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Right Motives in the Learning Process
Alan A. Aylwin
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I had a problem in kindergarten and first grade with my hearing
Dwight Edwards with contributions from Irma E. Ziesler, John G. Ziesler
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Since 1920, Christian Science has been my guiding light
Donald Dana Riddle
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Many blessings have come to me as a direct result of the application...
Virginia Ingle Yows
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The day before school started one year, our two youngest children...
Dorothy Pape Harris with contributions from Elbert E. Harris, Jr.
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Four years ago I would have laughed had anyone said I would...
Donna Tyner with contributions from Peter C. Tyner