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"No variableness"
Perhaps no aspect of Christian Science appeals more strongly to mortals than the teaching that God is divine Principle. The writer recalls the shifting scenes of her girlhood, the constantly changing conditions and environment, the lack of tenacity in friendships, the discords, and the ceaseless unrest amounting to agony. Contrasted with all this is the great peace and contentment which came with the dawning consciousness of God as Spirit, Principle,—fixed, immovable,—Love unchanging, Truth invariable and Life harmonious. Here we may remember that the ten commandments were written on tablets of stone, significant of their unyielding basis or Principle.
In the so-called material universe nothing is permanent, nothing is stable. With the ever changing theories as to cause and effect, the material wisdom of yesterday is the foolishness of today; the firm friends of today are the avowed enemies of tomorrow. Happiness dependent upon the senses, material circumstances, or human associations, or resting upon the false teaching of the schools, is not enduring happiness, since at any moment one may be plunged into intense misery. Health which is the result of the mesmeric influence of belief in drugs, soothing and quieting the human mind, or upon any material condition whatsoever, is not permanent health, since at any instant the condition may change to belief in extreme suffering. In fact, as Mrs. Eddy has said (Science and Health, p. 374), "it is like walking in darkness on the edge of a precipice."

October 9, 1915 issue
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Fruitful Testimony
ROBERT NALL
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Spiritual Discernment
MILDRED SPRING CASE, A.B.
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"No variableness"
FRANCES S. WEAVER
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Testimony Meetings
GENEVIEVE THOMAS PIERSON
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Fear Proved Baseless
JAMES PEDDLE
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Fantasy—Reality
ADA JANE MILLER
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Now and then a minister tries to dispose of Christian Science...
Judge Clifford P. Smith
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"Christian Science Dissected" was the sermon-subject at...
Brigman C. Odom
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An understanding of Christian Science is not attainable by...
F. Elmo Robinson
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Not long ago The Recorder published in full a learned...
Robert S. Ross
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In an article by Mr.—appearing in a recent issue the...
Charles W. J. Tennant
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"Let your light so shine"
Archibald McLellan
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Bases of Unity
John B. Willis
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Reverence and Brotherhood
Annie M. Knott
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The Lectures
with contributions from Rosemary O. Anderson, Elmer W. Demarest, Israel Pickens
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Within the past two years I, as well as several of my friends...
Albert Warren Sutphen
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When I was thirteen years old I suffered from what is...
Lillian Wheeler
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With deepest gratitude I testify to my experience in...
Mabel Thorpe Smith
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A deep sense of gratitude prompts me to give my testimony...
Grace C. Williams
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When Shadows Fled
MANDIUS J. MUNSON
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From Our Exchanges
with contributions from William Elliot Griffis, R. J. Campbell