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Religious Items
One of the chief dangers of life is trusting occasions. We think that conspicuous events, striking experiences, exalted moments have most to do with our character and capacity. We are wrong. Common days, monotonous hours, wearisome paths, plain old tools, and every-day clothes tell the real story. Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The vision may dawn, the dream may waken, the heart may leap with a new inspiration on some mountain-top, but the test, the triumph, is at the foot of the mountain, on the level plain.
The workshop of character is every-day life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is won or lost. Thank God for a new truth, a beautiful idea. a glowing experience; but remember that unless we bring it down to the ground and teach it to walk with feet, work with hands, and stand the strain of the daily life, we have worse than lost it, we have been hurt by it. A new light in our heart makes an for building a tabernacle and feeling thankful and looking back to a blessed memory, but for shedding the new light on the old path, and doing old duties with new inspiration. The uncommon life is the child of the common day, lived in an uncommon way.
REV. DR. MALTIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK.
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July 24, 1902 issue
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Commencement Addresses
with contributions from Parsons, Harris, Hadley, Palmer, Thomas B. Reed
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Self-government as Illustrated by Christian Science
W. D. McCRACKAN
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Telegraphing the Time
with contributions from JOHN RUSKIN
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The Value of Simplicity
CHARLES WAGNER
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The Lectures
with contributions from W. D. Goldman
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Afterglow
MARY BAKER G. EDDY
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Our Leader's Thanks
MARY BAKER G. EDDY
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The Signs of the Times
MARY BAKER G. EDDY
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The Standard of Greatness
Editor
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Notices
with contributions from St. Francis de Sales
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Among the Churches
with contributions from BEULAH C. RAYNER, CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
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A Clergyman's Impressions of Christian Science
BY W. W. M.
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The True Basis of Brotherhood
BY SAMUEL GREENWOOD.
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Emancipation
BY M. ETHEL WHITCOMB.
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A Word of Thanks
MARGARET R. WATERHOUSE with contributions from GOETHE
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Christian Science has brought so much happiness to me,...
MARY F. BALLIETT
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About two years ago I was suddenly and severely...
LOUIS A. FEHRENSEN
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All that God desires is to give you His great love so that it...
WILLIAM BERNARD ULLATHORNE
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Religious Items
with contributions from MALTIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK, C. A. BARTOL, C. C. EVERETT, H. M. G. HUFF, JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE, W. H. HAY AITKIN, T. L. CUYLER, N. M. BUTLER, HINTON, LEONARD BACON