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Individual Responsibility
The realization of his individual responsibility to Principle is vital to the personal progress of every Christian Scientist and will very largely determine the value of his service to humanity. Because this is true, it is profitable to examine the human mind to find what it is that would hinder a man from facing his responsibility, testing his relationship to Truth at every step of the way, and working out his own salvation.
Mental laziness is perhaps the most common of these hindrances. It usually comes disguised as lack of time, for it prefers the comparatively easy tasks imposed by the beliefs of the flesh to the mental discipline of seeking and finding the will of God. It very easily persuades the human being to leave serious study and close reasoning either for some future time or to some other person or group of persons. This inactive condition is more or less prevalent in the thought of every mortal, and he seldom makes any decided effort to correct it until forced to do so by some phase of human suffering. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 240) Mrs. Eddy says: "If at present content with idleness, we must become dissatisfied with it. Remember that mankind must sooner or later, either by suffering or by Science, be convinced of the error that is to be overcome."
July 10, 1920 issue
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"Semper paratus"
SIR HENRY JAPP
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"What ye will"
HARRIET BRADFORD
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"That a man lay down his life"
ROSE SEELYE-MILLER
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Individual Responsibility
LELA M. DARLINGTON
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Work
AGNES RUSH BURR
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God's Perfect Man
ALBERT H. HARDCASTLE
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From Puritanism to Christian Science
WILLIAM RUFUS SCOTT
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Immanuel
MARY SPARKS
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Christian Science apparently is causing considerable perturbation...
James M. Stevens
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In a recent issue there appears a paragraph in which a...
Charles W. J. Tennant
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A critic asserts that Christian Science teaches that God...
W. Truman Green
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Under the caption, "Self-Hypnosis not Uncommon,"...
Harry K. Filler
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Foreign Policy
Frederick Dixon
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Enriching the Affections
Gustavus S. Paine
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The Lectures
with contributions from Alfred Herberich, Joseph P. MacDonald, Alice L. Hamilton, Morris Darius Givens, Nelle Barnes, T. G. Watterson, Eugene Perrin, C. P. Weidling, R. B. Scholfield, Bertha B. Bliss, Charlotte Fugate, George T. Palmer, Edward C. Kennedy
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The proof that Principle, Love, is the only power—is...
T. R. W. Sharman
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Since I am so far from a Christian Science church and...
Ella M. Dailey
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Mrs. Eddy established many channels for blessings and...
Katherine Rutter
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I have received so much help and encouragement from...
Juanita C. B. McGlashan
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It is now some two and a half years since Christian Science...
Blanche W. Evans
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I wish to express my gratitude for the healing I received...
Joe T. Anderson
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"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see...
Muriel H. Van Fleet
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Several years ago, while working for a large piano firm...
Nettie E. Carter
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I should like to express my gratitude for Christian Science...
M. Edith Morehouse
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I gladly take this opportunity to express my gratitude...
P. A. Young with contributions from P. A. Young
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from L. C. Little, Lee J. Levinger