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Protection
The world is always tangling itself in new beliefs about protection. With guns gone and treaties broken, the human sense of protection may seem to vanish. And yet, ask the average man if he believes in God and he will be most emphatic in his affirmation that he does. In the same breath he will usually reject the Biblical symbols for protection. Perhaps, if the plowshare took on the dimensions of a dreadnaught and the pruning hook could be readily transformed into a spear, the mortal would be satisfied with them. Arbitration and mediation are good in theory and quite possible in practice if the passions of men can be governed. When a labor strike erupts the serenity of the business world, while ships lie idle and builders drop the level and hammer for weapons of bargaining, arbitration is resorted to as a means of adjusting the difficulties. If the resultant decision is satisfactory to the striker, he returns to his hammer and the ships, while the employers shout their disapproval of arbitration, and viceversa. If each of them gets his pound of flesh, well and good; arbitration is then a success; but woe to the theory of arbitration if displeasure upsets one side or the other.
Since individuals constitute the nation, the average individual case proves the nation's case, and arbitration with other nations often degenerates into a bargain-counter proposition, menacing the welfare of friendship and progress. Gluttony, greed, and self-seeking crop out in nations whose make-up is on the dead level of selfishness, and, consequently, the inspiration that is needed to move them to great accomplishments drops into the mire of petty provincialism, seclusion, and stagnation.

October 8, 1921 issue
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Protection
EDNA DEUPREE NELSON
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"Is there no balm in Gilead?"
SAMUEL GREENWOOD
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The Treatment of Sin
CATHERINE ALLER
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Gratitude
SARAH WOODALL
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Righteousness
EMILIE K. HILL
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Harvest
LENA M. HALL
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Understanding God
CHARLES S. WATSON
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Personality
Frederick Dixon
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The Victory of Experience
Gustavus S. Paine with contributions from Mary Blomfield
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"Nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me"
Margarete Lindemann
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I have abundant reasons to be grateful for the healing...
Anna Hernandez
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I should like to express my gratitude for the benefits...
James Jackson with contributions from A. Jackson
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It is with a heart full of gratitude that I testify to the...
Genevieve Bartleson
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I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science
F. E. Julian with contributions from Frank Elza Julian
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Gratitude for what Christian Science has done and is...
Fannie M. Kattelle with contributions from George E. Daniel, Catharine Sallee Daniel
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I was first attracted to Christian Science several years...
R. A. Harricks
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from William Lyon Phelps, H. G. Wells, McCormick, L. P. Jacks
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Notices
with contributions from Charles E. Jarvis