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The Lesson from a Bulb
In the fall, when the bulbs which were to bring us the earliest blossoms of spring were being covered with the soft mould, through ignorance some of them were set on their heads, their faces turned away from the light, and when springtime came, and all the beds were gay with fragrant bells, there was one little patch which gave no sign. After a time of patient waiting, the gardener raked away the surface earth and disclosed little points of pale green pushing through the soil; further investigation showed that some of the bulbs, obedient to the law of life, had started to grow in due season, and at first the shoots had gone down, but finding only darkness, and attracted by the warmth of the sunlight above, they had gradually turned themselves and slowly pushed their way to the surface. Others showed the long, sickly leaves still spreading about and groping downward.
The gardener watched the growth from day to day, and as the leaves came up into the light, they grew green and strong; then the bulb itself began to turn and put its roots into the earth, until finally the blossom came and the little plant was straight and in its rightful position.
In Science and Health we read, "The inverted images presented by the senses, the deflections of matter, as opposed to the Science of spiritual reflection, are all unlike Spirit. In the illusion of life that is here to-day and gone to-morrow, man would be wholly mortal, were it not that Love, the divine Principle that obtains in divine Science, destroys all error and brings immortality to light" (p. 305).
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November 12, 1904 issue
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A Correction
Mary Baker Eddy
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Good deeds overdone numerically...
Mary Baker Eddy
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Items of Interest
with contributions from William Distin
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The Things that We Can Do
SAMUEL GREENWOOD.
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Reality versus Unreality
E. C. WICKERSHAM.
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Speaking in Meeting
ELLA S. SARGENT.
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The Lesson from a Bulb
J. D. L.
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The Lectures
with contributions from C. E. Byrer, Ralph A. Barker
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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What our Leader Says
Mary Baker Eddy
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A New By-law and Amendments
Editor
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Words of Appreciation
Editor with contributions from Augusta E. Stetson, Mary Baker Eddy
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Letters to our Leader
with contributions from Eugene R. Cox, Alfredo L. Demorest, Lida M. Demorest, Cherese Huguet, Isaac N. Demorest, Frances Mack Mann, Beatrice B. Quinby
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I feel that the time has come for me to acknowledge...
Luther Carter
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I have been studying Science and Health with the Bible...
Belle P. Glaze
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Of the many cases of healing which I have experienced, I...
Effie Ellsler Weston with contributions from J. D. Davison
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When I took up the study of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy,...
Nellie Brewer with contributions from Alie Wade
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I am twenty-five years of age, employed as salesman in...
Russell Freeman
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So many are God's kindnesses to us that as drops of...
Henry Ward Beecher
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Ministry
Emily Dickinson
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Notices
with contributions from Stephen A. Chase