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No Reality in Procrastination
Concerning action Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 187), "The divine Mind includes all action and volition, and man in Science is governed by this Mind." This comprehensive statement of power and activity seems radical to those who have been accustomed to believe that action is a function of the human mind and of persons; but its truth can be demonstrated by overcoming the wrong sense of action, and this is being done everywhere by Christian Scientists. Humanity generally is far from recognizing this fact and equally far from practicing its truth and authority.
The carnal mind believes it has a will and activity of its own. It believes in action as being an effect of human will; and from this arises the apathetic, spasmodic, diseased, and reactionary motions which fill human experience with poverty, suffering, and death. Procrastination is one of the common elements of this carnal mind; fear and indolence are its associates. Rooted in the belief that it is a creator and controller of action, this so-called mind believes it can defer necessary action until to-morrow—or until any indefinite time. Christian Science, however, reveals the fact that mortal mind is a false claimant to intelligence and activity, and that its thoughts are but counterfeits of God's thoughts, which exist in Principle without limitation in quality or number.
As one recognizes the important fact that there is no real action but that which is in and of harmonious divine Mind, God, and expressed in His creation, it follows that in reality there can be no procrastination. Procrastination does not exist in divine Mind; it does not exist in the universe of real intelligence; it is no part of the real man. For one either to declare, or mentally or verbally to agree with the statement that procrastination is real is a mistake. To declare through Christian Science the allness and perfection of God, the divine Mind, as being the sole cause of all action, and therefore to deny the reality, power, and presence of procrastination, is to aid in destroying a robber of humanity, a thief of opportunity, of harmony, and happiness on earth.
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March 18, 1922 issue
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Spiritual Understanding versus Human Will
SAMUEL F. SWANTEES
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No Reality in Procrastination
ERNEST C. MOSES
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Steps Toward Good
MAZIE M. SPOHR
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The Lesson of Naaman the Syrian
FLORENCE E. B. DONALDSON
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The Light of Love
ALLIE MORGAN
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Christian Scientists have no wish to detract from or discredit...
Clifford P. Smith
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In your issue of recent date there appears an account of...
Charles W. J. Tennant
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The correspondent says that he does not "feel much...
Duncan Sinclair
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I shall be grateful for the privilege of commenting upon...
Charles E. Heitman
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With interest I read in your paper the reprint about...
Marie Hartman
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Letters from the Field
with contributions from William D. Kilpatrick, Bessie Baumgartner, L. P. Smith
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Approaching True Brotherhood
Albert F. Gilmore
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One Method of Christian Science
Ella W. Hoag
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Animal Magnetism Unreal
Duncan Sinclair
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Announcement
with contributions from Bliss Knapp, Willis F. Gross
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The Lectures
with contributions from John F. Rector, C. P. Macdonald
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From the time I was a small boy until I was ten years...
Thomas Warren Luce
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This past summer, while visiting my sister in New Mexico,...
Myrtle F. Stringfield
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Christian Science was first introduced to me by my sisters
Thomas Macfarlane
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I am glad to testify to the unfailing benefits and spiritual...
Enid J. Collins
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"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden,...
Ivey G. Diehl with contributions from Edith M. Diehl
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It has been nine years since I first began the study of...
Bernice E. Coffey with contributions from G. A. Coffey, Rena L. Crocker, E. S. Crocker
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Harry Lauder, Edward S. Martin, Miles H. Krumbine, C. W. Eliot, David Graham, John Herman Randall