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A Citizen of Zion
How many people there are who begrudge not the expression of their faith that the world is in a bad state. If some one expresses hope for its recovery or faith in the inevitable triumph of righteousness, they look askance and think they cannot change their fixed faith in trouble, sorrow, and confusion. Now one can take either the material outlook or the spiritual look within. He can view evil as real and sit in condemnation upon half the population of the world because of its injustice to the other half, and so deepen his cynicism, or he can look within and estimate his own experiences of God's goodness. He can thus improve his faith in God so as to be able to cherish hope for others. When the disciple spoke of all the provision they had in sight being five barley loaves and two small fishes, he quickly added, "What are they among so many?" But the Master, taking the spiritual view, revealed the abundance of good in such a way that the multitude was satisfied.
Here and there in this day may be seen disorder; men are wrecking, burning, destroying the property of others, and looting the visible things which they covet; but they are inevitably forced to say, How futile these stolen goods are to meet the needs of the multitude; and they will be further forced to see that by production not destruction, by loving-kindness not by hatred, will the needs of the many be adequately met. In other words, it must be necessarily discerned that when men find good within they will then manifest such activities as will make this good become common good and bless all.

December 6, 1919 issue
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Cain and Abel
RICHARD P. VERRALL
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Cobwebs
JOHN SIDNEY BRAITHWAITE
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The Divine Vistas
ZONA BERG
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Divine Protection
BIRD STEWART SCOTLAND
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Constructing and Reconstructing
RUTH E. WILLIAMS
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The Meaning of Christian Science
MARTEL I. MICKEY
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The Journey
MARGARET MORRISON
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In a recent issue is an interview with one who claims to...
Robert G. Steel in
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"G. S. H." seems to be strangely fascinated by his conception...
George R. Lowe in
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In The Saturday Review appears an interesting letter in...
Samuel J. Macdonald in
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A Citizen of Zion
William P. McKenzie
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"A shining light"
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Franklin Dickey, Anis McAvoy, Christine Paulson, William R. Best, A.A. Tobias, Thomas C. Hollingshead, Caroline E. Krause, Elting Alexander
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Whenever I have not been able to lift my thoughts above...
LILLIAN PHILLIPS
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It is now about eleven years since I first had the privilege...
D. Demas with contributions from NATALIE E. ZILLER
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A few years ago the Christian Science textbook,...
ANNIE OSLAND
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My little girl, when about two years old, fell from a...
EMMA W. SCHWENCKE
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I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science and...
SALLY R. HEWETT
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I was suffering from great mental depression, and for...
with contributions from BETTY TICHENOR BARCUS
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It is with the earnest hope that our experience may...
MARY RAYMAKER
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I first heard of Christian Science many years ago, but...
Edgar L. Tapscott
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It is with gratitude that I testify to the daily good received...
AGNES C. ROBINSON
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I cannot withhold my testimony any longer, having benefited...
KATE C. LAWRENCE
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In 1912 I came into Christian Science for the healing of...
DEL SEANURE FERGUSON
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Roger W. Babson, C. B. Stetson