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Balance
At a recent exhibition of motor boats a group of people were intently watching a special demonstration. Curious to know what could be holding their attention, a bystander glanced over the intervening heads and saw the prow of a miniature ship lurching violently from side to side, roughly simulating the behavior of a slender craft in a rolling sea. At that moment the man who seemed to be in charge stepped up and touched a button. In an instant the boat came to a standstill. The onlookers were all attention, some faces expressing credulity, and some skepticism, but all were intent on what was to happen.
The demonstrator, pointing to a piece of mechanism which consisted largely of a fly-wheel in the body of the boat, proceeded to tell his audience that he would show them how the boat would act when the gyroscope was in action. He explained that when the power was on this wheel would revolve very rapidly on its bearings, and the counter-force thus produced would neutralize that which was causing the boat to roll, thereby holding the craft in an upright position. He went on to say that the gyroscope did not need a counter-force to keep itself upright. Then he turned on the current. The looks of skepticism faded into expressions of wonder. Instead of the unruly rolling motion of a moment before, there was the boat upright and perfectly steady.

August 4, 1917 issue
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Scientific Teaching in the Sunday School
LUCY HAYS REYNOLDS
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Awake in the Night
SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD
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Gratitude to Mrs. Eddy
FLORENCE CLERIHEW BOYD
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Balance
ESTHER B. MC LAUGHLIN
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Talking with God
THORWALD SIEGFRIED
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"Tired children"
TRUMAN H. RICE
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The effort of a public speaker to besmirch the character...
Lloyd B. Coate
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Christian Scientists do not endeavor to isolate themselves,...
Thorwald Siegfried
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It is now forty-two years since Mrs. Eddy first published...
W. Stuart Booth
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In the report of a recent sermon there is a reference to...
Charles W. J. Tennant
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Go Forward
William P. McKenzie
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The Science of Liberty
William D. McCrackan
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What God Hath Joined Together
Annie M. Knott
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The Lectures
with contributions from T. P. Laird, John C. F. Slayton, Salem A. Hart, Jr., Eldred H. Warner, Hugh Stuart Campbell, Helen Snow, Lillian C. Kenyon, Asyth L. Hawk
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Early in 1916 I joined the army, and I did so without...
Edwin Albert Garner
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Five years before I learned of Christian Science the doctor...
Prudence Rawson
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I have gained so much help from reading the testimonies of...
Frank L. Grannis with contributions from Laura Johnston Grannis
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Such a beautiful illustration of God's way of caring for...
Marcia E. Gaier
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Dawn
ELISABETH RICHARDS
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From Our Exchanges
with contributions from William Arnold Shanklin, John G. Hill, Joseph Fort Newton