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"Could ye not watch with me one hour?"
On the wall space of a certain Christian Science Sunday school room wherein temporaily are held also the church services, there is transcribed with excellently planned and loving foresight for its application, the question that Jesus in Gethsemane asked of Peter and those with him who were found sleeping: "Could ye not watch with me one hour?" In view of the fact that Christian Science Sunday services, the Wednesday evening meeting, and the Sunday school each occupy about one hour, could a more direct appeal be made than this reminder to members, pupils, teachers, and the entire audience, for their undivided attention during any of our dearly loved services, meetings, or lectures?
Our Church Manual reads: "A Christian Scientist is not fatigued by prayer, by reading the Scriptures or the Christian Science text-book. ... Truth and Love rest the weary and heavy laden" (Art. XVII, Sect. 1). This applies as assuredly to participants as to members, who equally share in the observance and the resultant blessing. How subtle error is in making us "heavy with sleep," as were Jesus' disciples, for thereby cometh failure to heed the command to "watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation," as the Master admonished. There is also the temptation to absent ourselves from these privileged services, of leaving before the closing hymn, or the equally erroneous and no less marked one of having attention attracted in every direction save that wherein we are watchers with the spiritual idea, the ever present Christ, that inspires and heals mankind.

December 16, 1916 issue
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A Progressive Step
ADAM H. DICKEY
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Wilderness Experiences
ROBERT RAMSEY, M.B.
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Progress Toward Perfection
OLIVE ALLISON
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"Could ye not watch with me one hour?"
IDA R. SIMONEAU
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"Now is the accepted time"
TIMOTHY L. ROBERTS
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"Love's recompense"
MAY BARRIS
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Sunlight of Mind
IDA MAE HAWKS
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Our critic admitted that Christian Science had a grain of...
Hector Wallace Smith
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It is a sad commentary on the progress of avowed Christian...
Thorwald Siegfried
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A recent article quotes from a clergyman to the effect that...
Henry Van Arsdale
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Christian Scientists believe in the only true and living...
Lloyd B. Coate
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Christ Jesus said, "I am not come to destroy, but to...
H. S. Hughes, Jr.,
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Not Decadence, but Progress
Archibald McLellan
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"We shall all be changed"
Annie M. Knott
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Overlooking Is Not Overcoming
William D. McCrackan
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The Lectures
with contributions from Ernest F. Clymer, James Randall Dunn, Henry C. Allen, R. H. Ewing, Harry N. Baum, Thorwald Siegfried, A. E. Mabie, Richard P. Verrall
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Many times I have picked up the Sentinel or the Journal...
Willetta McPherson
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I began the study of Christian Science in 1905 entirely...
Elizabeth Peacock
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Christian Science help came to me in dire need
Evelyn M. Denison
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Before coming into Christian Science I was very unhappy...
Emma Ringel Klaus
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When I became interested in Christian Science about seven...
Elizabeth Slyer
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Christian Science is the greatest blessing that has come...
Henrietta W. Sawyer
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Deep gratitude impels me to testify to the great blessings...
Lucia Bronson with contributions from W. H. Bronson
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From Our Exchanges
with contributions from J. D. Jones, Samuel Zane Batten, W. E. Bowen, Thomas French, Jr.