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The Mystery of Godliness
Is there one who has not at some time in his life desired to know God? This desire may be born at any time along the way in one's life experience. Often it comes when material things upon which he leaned have been swept away by the tide of ever changing events. The birth of this hope may be attended by pangs of sorrow, peril, and pain. It is often accompanied by retrospection and repentance for the past and an ardent longing to live nearer to God in the future,—a radical turning from evil to good. The shock of finding earthly things untrustworthy helps to dispel from the human mind a superstitious mystery about God. Man's desire to become like his God is as ancient as the acknowledgment that there is a Supreme Being. One's god is that object upon which he thinks most. One may call himself an infidel and declare that he has no God, and at the same time be an idolatrous worshiper of persons and things.
The concept of a God of peace molded the Quakers into a quiet, peaceful people, while the concept of a God of war made the Teutons a warlike race. Jesus' idea of God was one of perfection. He also taught that to be like God was to be perfect. There is nothing strange, superstitious, or unnatural in striving for perfection. It is simply the effort to think and do right.

June 21, 1919 issue
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The Mystery of Godliness
FRANCES MACK MANN
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Remembering Our Work
CASSIUS M. LOOMIS
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Resistance to Error
MARIE CHISWELL HOUGH
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"The Book of Life"
EMMA A. STANGLAND
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A Glimpse of Truth
ROY C. MC CLAY
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The Little Foxes
SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD
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In his recent letter a correspondent hopes that he is correct...
Katherine English
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The ministerial correspondents whose names are attached...
Robert G. Steel
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High Resolve
William P. McKenzie
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Lifting up the Christ
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Archibald W. Edes, F. P. Lloyd, Julius L. Beer, John E. Playter, J. McKay, Leon G. Miles, Howard Lovewell Cheney, Hugh L. Clark, Giles M. Smith, George Collins, F. W. Duesbury, Mary A. Scott, Jean Ramsey, Harry I. Hunt, William G. Baker
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I first heard of Christian Science through the healing of...
Colin Rucher Eddison
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For fourteen years I had suffered from headache, also...
Alice D. Houren with contributions from William Houren
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Until I learned something of Christian Science nearly...
Jennie Rankin
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For the many blessings received through the study of...
Mabel Radley Reece
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About twenty-one years ago I was very sick in bed for...
Lottie J. Sparks
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Nearly ten years have elapsed since my healing through...
Willard B. Mills
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I feel it my duty, in gratitude for the many blessings...
Esther L. Van Dien
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When I first turned to Christian Science I was wonderfully...
Sarah Alice Leachman
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Before I knew anything of Christian Science, happiness...
Mabel A. White
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Christian Science came into my life about fourteen years...
Annie B. Martin
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from John Clifford, F. B. Meyer, David H. Fouse