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The world today is exercised throughout on tuberculosis
New Bern (N. C.) Journal
The world today is exercised throughout on tuberculosis. Municipal cleanliness is being taught and enforced. Filth is held as sinful, and the prize goes where there is the least infection. But that which is equally a health tonic, that which can help materially in warding off disease, is cheerful and profitable talk, conversation that goes above the low things of the day and partakes of the things that make for righteousness. The usual conversation of the day is of petty things. The personal goes into details of individual aches and pains, branching off, perhaps, into the scandals, deaths, casualties, and various horrors recorded all too carefully in the newspapers.
The world needs the spread of healthy conversation coming from healthy minds. The disagreeable ought to be relegated to the silent background, while everything promoting cheerfulness, therefore healthfulness, should be thrust forward to be talked and discussed. Books of dark deeds, the tragic drama, have few readers and followers, and yet every day men and women will discuss in detail aches and pains, gossip and scandal, which are real tragedies that pull down and distort a world that is capable of better and more gracious things. All these idle words make the world a huge ill-smelling place for the family circle, for society, for business, for the church. Just reverse the order, and why might not the world be filled with an atmosphere transferring healthy germs, and destroying the germs of foulness and all unwholesomeness through a contagious conversation looking toward pure things?
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January 1, 1910 issue
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REFORM
M. G. KAINS, M.S.
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"MY PRESENCE SHALL GO WITH THEE"
MARY WHEELER.
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AN AGNOSTIC'S PROGRESS
MALCOLM BRUCE MILNE.
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WORKING AND PRAYING
EDWARD EVERETT NORWOOD.
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LIFE AS AN ART
HAPPY FRANKLIN PORTER.
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Mr. Rhodes' position is a frankly indefensible one
Frederick Dixon
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Let me first say, in passing, that there is nothing whatever...
John E. G. Sandford
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Formulas are not used by genuine Christian Scientists,...
Gray Montgomery
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The lowly Nazarene is and must ever continue to be our...
Martin Sindell
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Your last Sunday's editorial on the recent incident in...
Charles K. Skinner
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS.
Editor
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MRS. EDDY'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE.
Mary Baker Eddy
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PRACTITIONERS' CHARGES.
Mary Baker Eddy with contributions from Editor
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CLIMBING THE LADDER.
John B. Willis
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"THOU SHALT NOT STEAL"
Annie M. Knott
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LETTERS TO OUR LEADER
with contributions from Clara B. MacMillan, The Board of Directors, Mary Baker Eddy, Agnata F. Butler, Eleanor M. Searle, Pattie Egan, Annie Charles Smith, Eveline M. Field, P. Ramsay Laird, Ellen L. Percy, L. E. Spann, Irene Talbot, Katharine M. Tuckerman
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from W. H. Morrison, Ralph E. Joslin, Bertram Hawker, Sue Harper Mims, Frank B. Stephens, Louis A. Gregory
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The fact has been brought very forcibly to my mind...
Millie Morton Morgan with contributions from Robert W. Morgan
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I was brought up to read the Bible and to search it for...
Lucy Holtzclaw
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I am deeply grateful for Christian Science, and for its...
Bertha Kindler
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For a number of years I suffered very great pain and...
Eldo Stedfeld
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During November, 1908, I was afflicted with a severe...
H. D. McBride
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Words can never express the gratitude I owe to Christian Science
Anna J. Leonard with contributions from Susan Elsworth
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About nine years ago I was healed in Christian Science...
Susie M. Abbott
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Let me but live my life from year to year,...
Henry Van Dyke