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Benediction
There are few words in the English language more beautiful than the word benediction. Its literal meaning is "good saying," or the utterance of blessing, and it is associated in the thought of many of us with such comforting passages from the New Testament as, "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all." Indeed the whole Bible is full of assurances that nothing but the divine benediction rests upon those who humbly and earnestly seek to know more of God, those who are making the attainment of righteousness their first aim.
The apostle Paul expressed this thought explicitly when he said, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." And yet a false sense of condemnation is just what the carnal mind is continually and incessantly arguing to the aspiring Christian. In fact the unenlightened human mind may be said to revel in mistaken condemnation. If one listens to the ordinary conversation of the day he must be impressed by the fact that this promiscuous condemnation runs through it like a thread; condemnation of some particular person, of the weather, of the government, of almost every existing circumstance and condition. How conspicuous by its absence is the "good saying," the word that blesses and heals, otherwise benediction.

February 14, 1920 issue
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Benediction
MARY H. CUMMINS
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The Mother-Love of God
ALMA LUTZ
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Not Will Power
WILLIAM HAMBLIN CAHOON
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The Face of God
INEZ KOCH
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The Open Door
TESORA F. SLOAN
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The Other Cheek
MAUD DREWRY
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Interpretation of the Scriptures
ROSALIE S. JACOBY
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In a sermon as reported in a recent issue, an evangelist...
James M. Stevens
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I have read with interest the correspondence between...
Charles W. J. Tennant
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Weathering the Storm
William P. McKenzie
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The Clean Windowpane
Ella W. Hoag
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Admission to Membership in The Mother Church
Charles E. Jarvis
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The Lectures
with contributions from J. P. Kidd, Thomas R. Minturn, Jr., Irving Van Zandt, Nora I. Sawyer, Mary L. Dennison, William H. Burtis, Edmund Nichols, G. C. Sharp
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Deep gratitude and the belief that our experience will...
Will Leonhardt
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About eight years ago I became ill with a severe nervous...
Henny Schreiber
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It is with a humble sense of duty mingled with pleasure...
M. Deane Welton
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About seven years ago my brother sent me the Christian Science...
Winnie Blasingame with contributions from George R. Blasingame
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Innumerable have been my experiences of the power of...
Margarette H. Rhule
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Christian Science has been a great comfort and help to...
Clara A. Scidmore
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I first heard of Christian Science through my sister who...
Mayme E. Bennett
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It is almost sixteen years since I first began studying...
Roy G. Loomer with contributions from Maude Loomer
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I have received so much help from others' testimonies...
Anna Ginsberg
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It is with a great deal of real happiness that I can truly...
Raymond M. Davis
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Aspiration
MINNA MATHISON
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Frank Crane, Arthur S. Hoyt, Dudley D'a. Wright