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Following Secretary Long, President McKinley arose, and taking in his hand the magnificent sword, presented it to the admiral in the name of the American people.

Received Nation's Sword

Tuesday, October 3, 1899, Admiral Dewey received from the hand of President McKinley, the magnificent sword awarded him by an act of Congress.

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Shared reflections

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From Place

"The secret place of the most High"

We learn in Christian Science that God is infinite Truth, Life, and Love and that He imparts to His creation only that which is completely beneficial.

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To some of us there is only one thing more disagreeable than a dreary pessimism; and that is a fallacious optimism, —an optimism which because it wears a shoe imagines that the earth is carpeted with leather, which puts the telescope to its blind eye when it is aware of any hostile fact on the horizon, which fortifies itself by reading only such papers and attending to only such facts as it knows will confirm it in the opinion which it chooses to maintain.

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A certain Cleveland attorney has two bright little children.

A Japanese Legend

Once upon a time there lived in the provine of Nigata a stone-cutter named Nekemoto.
The watchword of the universe is progress.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

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Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

From Overcoming grief

What death does not do

We go on gaining moment by moment in the understanding that God is the only real Life.

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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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A Voice from Nova Scotia

The writer attended the Christian Endeavor Convention at Boston in 1895, with hope of being healed of deafness.

Familiar Texts Explained

"When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bear our sicknesses".

Spurious Literature

Many friends who have become interested in Christian Science having previously read spurious literature on the subject, find it a great stumbling-block when asked to read nothing but the authorized literature.
Some few have stood upon the mountain heights of thought and there conversed with God.
At the regular weekly meeting of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, held in the Auditorium annex on Wednesday evening, many testimonials were given by persons in the congregation, which, as one reflects upon them, tend to induce a conviction that the application of the fundamental principles upon which the movement is founded, are accomplishing a great deal of physical as well as spiritual good.
The worst kind of religion is no religion at all; and these men living in ease and luxury, indulging them selves in the amusement of going without religion, may be thankful that they live in lands where the Gospel they neglect has tamed the beastliness and ferocity of the men who, but for Christianity, might long ago have eaten their carcasses like the South Sea Islanders, or cut off their heads and tanned their hides like the monsters of the French Revolution.