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Alertness
Many a time in her writings has Mrs. Eddy spoken with no uncertain voice to Christian Scientists on the subject of alertness. While constantly reiterating the spiritual fact of the omnipresence and omnipotence of good, she was aware of the insidious suggestions of evil; hence her warning words were often heard calling upon all who had caught a glimmering of the meaning of Principle to be awake to the demands of Truth in order to resist the attacks of evil from whatever quarter.
On page 392 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" one of these warnings is uttered. "Stand porter at the door of thought," Mrs. Eddy writes; and a little farther on she explains the import of the words as follows: "The issues of pain or pleasure must come through mind, and like a watchman forsaking his post, we admit the intruding belief, forgetting that through divine help we can forbid this entrance." It is all quite plain. Every pleasure and every pain with which human beings are familiar are beliefs of the human mind. They may be entertained, or they can be rejected, and the method of the rejection is taught by Christian Science, which reveals the way by which divine help can be utilized in resisting the false claims of evil or in rejecting them, should they have been permitted to enter through an unguarded door.

February 22, 1919 issue
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Alertness
DUNCAN SINCLAIR
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Our Study and Growth
KATHERINE E. VARGA
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Be Not Weary in Well Doing
GRACE SAFFORD FARRINGTON
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Casting a Stone
OLCOTT HASKELL
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Sowing and Reaping
SARAH M. DAVISON
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Health Realized
WILLIAM T. SKELTON
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The Upward Path
FRANCES A. HALDANE
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The outburst against Christian Science by a "Doctor of...
Judge Clifford P. Smith
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It is unfortunate that a speaker at a recent patriotic...
Robert G. Steel
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It is indeed gratifying to find your interesting paper...
W. Stuart Booth
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The Missionary Spirit and Politics
William P. McKenzie
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Seeing and Acknowledging
Annie M. Knott
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The Good Use of Human Affection
William D. McCrackan
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Admission to Membership in The Mother Church
Charles E. Jarvis
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The Lectures
with contributions from F. T. Dodge, Wallace H. Burnett, Mary Fowler, Leighton C. Brownton
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Just a little over a year ago I was able to demonstrate the...
Victor A. Cazalet
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It is with a deep sense of gratitude to God that I give this...
M. Louise Wells
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In this testimony I would like to tell, as far as it is possible...
Emil Sutter, Jr.
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About five years ago I was taken with what is known to...
Adele Blanche Haff
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I am so thankful for Christian Science that I feel it...
Emma A. Everhard
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With gratitude I send this testimony of the help that has...
Harriett W. Wilson
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I came into Christian Science in June, 1918, while serving...
Victor H. W. Nielsen
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The testimonies in our periodicals have helped me so...
Lennie Elliott
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Realizing that it is my duty as well as privilege to make...
Albina B. Mason
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I am very grateful to God for all the blessings that have...
B. W. Davidson