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Wages war on Worry
The Citizen Press
The Christian Science church of to-day is succeeding because it wages war on worry. This, in a word, is the essence of the tribute paid to Christian Science by Rev. Bastian Smits from his pulpit Sunday morning.
He had taken a text from sixth Matthew, and had preached for about twenty minutes along the line of taking no anxious thought for the morrow, when he paused and remarked that he was going to speak, with proper caution, and, he hoped, in a manner not to be misunderstood or misinterpreted, a word about the Christian Science church. That Christian Scientists were building many magnificent churches throughout the country was a fact, not a theory. The reason the organization was so strong and solid was because they waged incessant and unceasing war on worry. "They say if you have ills, don't think of them. That's good. If you have difficulties, do the best you can and do not worry."
When a minister speaks in that manner he can be classed as liberal. Mr. Smits sets a good example. If we all would "acknowledge the corn" whenever we find good, and say it's good, even if found in a neighbor's garden or competitor's shop; in a doxy which is not our doxy, in a philosophy with which we are not in accord, in worship with which we do not sympathize; when we can proclaim from our mental housetops good is good because it is good whereever found, we are on the right track to individual and national redemption. We are getting together as a worthy people, ready to help one another and thereby help us all.
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February 17, 1906 issue
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An Instance of Mrs. Eddy's Acumen
HANSON W. WHEELER
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Giving and Receiving
REV. WILLIAM P. MC KENZIE.
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"We have only as we give."
IRA C. HUBBELL.
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Giving to The Mother Church
FRANCES MACK MANN.
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A Message from the Workshop
AGNES FLORIDA CHALMERS.
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Salvation is not through Mere Belief
Alfred Farlow
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Christian Science in Denmark
Clara Mehder
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At the National Military Home, Ohio
Lloyd B. Coate
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A Morning Song
A. A. ALDRICH.
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The Lectures
with contributions from J. W. Thomas, M. L. Cook, James S. Pritchett, A. C. Peter
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"Progressing toward Unity."
Archibald McLellan
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Progressiveness
Annie M. Knott
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"As a little child."
JOHN B. WILLIS
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Letters to our Leader
with contributions from ARTHUR REEVES VOSBURGH, R. S. KELLERMAN, SARAH D. HILL, WM.A. CHILDS, Magdalena Fleming, Virginia S. Hoefer, Jennie M. Dellano
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From early girlhood I was considered an invalid, having...
Phebe L. Haines
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From childhood I was subject to fainting spells, and from...
Mary E. Chamberlin
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A few years ago I was very ill with appendicitis, and the...
Bertha Schmitz
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About the year 1885 I began to have medical treatment...
Rachel Barrett Taylor
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About three years ago I was led to accept the position of...
Antoinette Choate
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Seven years ago a dear friend, seeing my need, loaned...
Clara A. Gould
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Perpetual Christmas
ALICE MORGAN HARRISON.
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From our Exchanges
Arthur Chamberlain with contributions from Dean Hodges
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Notices
with contributions from Stephen A. Chase