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"Love oak"
One day in the fall, when wandering with friends along a watercourse, looking for late autumn treasures with which to decorate the home where our Sunday services were held, I heard the dear children calling one another's attention to the beauty of the "love oak." In this way they designated a plant which adds to the landscape, in our mild California autumn, a dash of that vivid color which prevails at this season in colder regions. In masses of flaming shrubbery, or as a graceful, trailing vine, it glows with the tints of the Virginia creeper, from delicate coral pink to deep carmine. Yet this lovely thing is so associated in the minds of people with the thought of poison that the very sight of it often calls forth alarmed warnings.
To one who once shared this popular fear, but who has learned through Christian Science to look upon this plant with friendly eyes, it was sweet indeed to know that the children had found a way to lift the curse, perceiving a reflection of Love where mortal sense saw only its own erroneous concept. For years I had wished to write of this healing, long since complete, but waited, searching for a name for this form of the oak which would tend to improve the universal belief regarding it. Thought traveled back over the experience, which had developed a truer sense of friendliness with all outdoor things.
July 26, 1919 issue
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Name as Character or Nature
ISRAEL PICKENS
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The Wednesday Evening Offering
MINNIE GARDNER
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Falling Stars
RACHEL PARSONS
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"On upward wing"
ROBERT C. BRYANT
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The Shepherd
CHRISTINE BEALS
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"Love oak"
RUTH INGRAHAM
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Fidelity
CHARLES WRIGHT
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To say or imply that Christian Science is "made in...
Aaron E. Brandt
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The contributor of "Talks on Health" is either ignorant...
Charles M. Shaw
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A correspondent writes recently "that if God did not give...
George C. Eames
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I believe the practice of calling on the churches to close...
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Harry Vandegrift
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A correspondent writes that "Christian Scientists are...
Katherine English
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Leaven and its Perversion
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Christian Churches
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Fred J. Stevens, Perry Reetler, G. Allison Holland, O. H. Wilcox, George E. Fuller, F. W. Fearnsides, Benjamin R. Kobey, O. B. Baldwin, Warren C. Klein, Ruth B. Ewing, J. W. Jones, W. C. Blackburn
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Having been the recipient of many blessings through the...
Howard G. Dirlam
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My life up to the time I found Christian Science was...
Harriet Reynolds
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It is now more than twenty years since the light of...
C. Lilias Ramsay
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Some six years ago I suffered from a state of extreme exhaustion,...
Charlotte Paulsen
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My first healing through Christian Science came when...
Florence Haimbaugh
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With a grateful heart I give this testimony...
B. E. Parker
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Christian Science was presented to me over twenty years...
Emma B. Westcott
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I want to express my gratitude for what Christian Science...
Julia M. Stahl
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It is with pleasure that I send my testimony of the...
Lizzie Myler Angell
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Christian Science has been to me during ten years a...
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from A. J. Gordon