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Things that Remain
The more one thinks upon St. Paul's statement that "the things which are seen are temporal," the more he is impressed with the truth and fitness of this terse characterization of the objective world of mortal experience. From youth to age this life may be said to be a passing temporality. It is made up for the most part of awakenings to false estimates of value, of escapes from the enslavement of some distorted sense.
The little child finds entire self-forgetfulness in his play with a marble, and utter heartbreak, perchance, when it drops beyond his reach into some convenient hole. His judgment is all awry, unbalanced. In a kindred way, youth attaches great importance to affairs which not long hence will be seen to be amusingly trivial. Later the young man enters upon business or professional life with the conviction that now he has to do with serious matters, and relatively speaking he has. Nevertheless, as he grows more thoughtful, or is instructed in Christian Science, he gains a higher sense of spiritual selfhood and responsibility and vaster issues make appeal to his thought, for he has begun to see that all concepts, relations, and experiences of mortal belief are unstable; they are the play-acts of mental immaturity, of which the Preacher has said long since, "Vanity of vanities; all is vanity."

March 14, 1914 issue
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Following Christ
ROBERT NALL
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Compassion
LOUISE KNIGHT WHEATLEY
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A Retrospect
JOHN ASHCROFT
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Remedy for Ghosts
MARTHA BURR BANKS
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Only a Dream
ELIZABETH EARL JONES
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As reported by the newspapers within the last few days,...
William S. Campbell
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In a recent issue of the Advertiser reference was made to...
David Anderson
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In a recent issue the Rev.— writes: "The science of...
Richards Woolfenden
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"Let your light so shine"
Archibald McLellan
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Flesh and Spirit
Annie M. Knott
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Things that Remain
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 Arthur E. Miller, Emerson W. Baker, John F. Manning, R. A. Liverett
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About June, 1906, while living in Chicago, a physical condition...
Mary Johnson Cheesman with contributions from Editor
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For the past two years Christian Science has been our...
Martha Jacobs
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The truth of the Scripture that "the Lord's hand is not...
J. Francis Stroup
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It is with a heart full of gratitude for the daily blessings...
Mary Elizabeth Gordon
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Two years ago I suffered with severe rheumatic pain
Louise Krieg
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Contentment
EVELYN SYLVESTER KNOWLES
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From Our Exchanges
with contributions from W. E. Orchard, Charles Stelzle