In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

December 24, 1932

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Winifred Kirkland, J. W. Pearson, Samuel A. Eliot, James DeWolf Perry, Paul H. Cose, Henry Darlington
[Winifred Kirkland, in the North American Review, as quoted in Great Thoughts, London, England]
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December 24, 1932

From the Field

For a number of years services have been held each Sunday morning at the County Jail and City Workhouse, and by appointment at the Montgomery County Home.
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December 24, 1932

Comments by a well-known religionist, reported in your...

Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
Comments by a well-known religionist, reported in your issue of January 13, may have given your readers misleading impressions regarding Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science, and I should appreciate an opportunity to say something in defense of the facts.
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December 24, 1932

"The accepted time"

MARY H. CUMMINS
When we are asked to render some service to another, perhaps to go on an errand or to perform some little duty in the household, how frequently there seems to arise a disinclination to do the thing immediately! Something seems to whisper that half an hour or an hour hence, or perhaps even tomorrow, would do just as well, and that it would be much more easily done if we could put it off a little while.
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December 24, 1932

As a Little Child

ELLA A. STONE
Jesus told his disciples that, if they would enter the kingdom of God, they must become childlike.
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December 24, 1932

"Follow me"

HERBERT L. FRANK
Jesus' words, "Follow me," spoken to Simon Peter and Andrew, and his similar call to James and John, strengthened their awakening recognition of the Christ, Truth, which he reflected; and they immediately gave up their business as fishermen and followed him.
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December 24, 1932

The Angel Song

SELMA WARDA
In Luke's record of the birth of Jesus we find the well-known message to humanity, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
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December 24, 1932

The Coming of the Christ

ARTHUR L. SLATER
The recurring Christmas season presents a blessed occasion wherein one not only may celebrate the coming to earth of Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, but also may take the measure of his own receptiveness and devotion to Christ, Truth, and of the extent to which he is demonstrating the truth.
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December 24, 1932

"The fruit of the Spirit"

MARGARET MORRISON
In his illuminating letter of counsel and admonition to the Galatians, after vividly detailing the undesirable, deceptive, and destructive works of the flesh, St.
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December 24, 1932

Happy Christmas!

JOHN RANDALL DUNN
The beloved Leader of the Christian Science movement, Mary Baker Eddy, on Christmas Day, 1909, wrote to her household that she wished them "a happy Christmas, a feast of Soul and a famine of sense".
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