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CONQUERING PERSONAL DESIRES
Few of us, perhaps, realize to what extent our desires shape our careers. Yet, if we but examine our past in the light of Christian Science, we perceive that from the time when as children we cried for prohibited sweets, until in maturity we madly scrambled after the whims and fancies of drifting desire, our experiences have been harmonious or discordant according as the "I-wants" have been based upon or have fallen below the Christly standard of self-immolation.
We see how personal desire and mortal self have all too often banded together to seek the destruction of true happiness, and how we have yielded without a murmur to their unlawful rule, until, inveigled into their castle of anticipations, we become their unresting slaves. Here, however, through the penalties inflicted upon us, we finally learn with what cruelty these satanic majesties wield their asserted but baseless power, and to what selfish ends they demand obedience from their subjects. We discover, too, the subtlety with which they would make us the victims of failure, blockade the higher pathway, dethrone our ideals, and fetter moral strength. Though personal desire be disguised as the queen of all joy, it is but a fleeting phantom. Self is but the straw-man of false belief whom we ourselves have placed upon the throne where the divine idea of man rightly belongs.

February 8, 1913 issue
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PERISHABLE AND IMPERISHABLE BEAUTY
HON. JOHN D. WORKS
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TRUTH'S CALL
MARY BROOKINS
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CONQUERING PERSONAL DESIRES
LUCY HAYS EASTMAN
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ALERT TO TRUTH
GERTRUDE S. MC CALMONT
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ILLUMINATION
LOUISA M. WEYGANG
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The lecture given by a clergyman and reported in your...
Frederick Dixon
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Christian Science, instead of being a fallacy, as a reverend...
W. D. Hinchsliff
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In the Bloemendaalsche Weekblad of recent date I read...
Marie Hartman
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An article in a popular magazine calls attention to the...
George Shaw Cook
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Under the caption, "Many Attend Revivals," in a recent...
John L. Rendall
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Recent issuse of your paper have contained accounts of...
Warwick A. Tyler
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Referring to the work of the Salvation Army in a book...
Jesse Pickard
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OFFICE OF THE READING-ROOM
Archibald McLellan
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FORGIVENESS
Annie M. Knott
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THE FLAWLESS LINK
John B. Willis
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ADMISSION TO MEMBERSHIP IN THE MOTHER CHURCH
John V. Dittemore
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from John C. Lathrop, Josephine G. Clayton, H. A. Beech, E. P. Thompson, Clinton B. Burgess, Julia S. Lovejoy, H. Graham Bleakly
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In 1906 I turned to Christian Science, after having been...
Launcelot T. Biddle
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"Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing:...
Helene Kleing
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About two years ago I made up my mind to find out what...
Annie J. Lippman
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I am so thankful for what Christian Science has done for...
Martha E. Young
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It is with a feeling of deep gratitude that I give this...
F. Arnold Bliss
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It is now four years since I first became interested in...
Mary L. Lambart with contributions from Edgar Lambart
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I was very much in need of help when Christian Science...
Clara Erickson
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I give this testimony with a heart filled with gratitude to...
George E. Floyd with contributions from Clara Floyd
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I wish to express my gratitude for the benefits derived...
Frau Maria Kunkel
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
with contributions from Charles Stelzle, James I. Vance, J. Gresham Machen