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Protection
What is the reason for the widespread belief that time and again men are saved from accident or catastrophe by a power outside of and greater than themselves? Many can tell of some occasion of seeming disaster when they have been saved as by a miracle; many can relate how in what seemed dire extremity of sickness they have been relieved from distress and healed; and all of these will admit that the saving or the healing was the result, not of some material agency, but of a power which to them appeared to be altogether apart from matter and from any efforts of their own. Some will say, in explanation, that God must have intervened in their behalf. And that is nearer the truth than, perhaps, the majority will care to admit; for be mankind ever so ignorant of the fact, spiritual law never ceases in its activity; and spiritual law is the healing and saving law of God.
The prophet Daniel knew a great deal about God's law and its operation, and the conditions under which it acts. It was because of this knowledge that on being cast into the den of lions at the command of King Darius, he remained uninjured; so that when the king, having repented him of his deed, came to the den, Daniel was able to say to him, "My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me," adding the reason for his protection,—"forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt." Innocency was Daniel's protection. He was one of the most spiritually-minded of the Hebrew prophets; and in proportion to his spirituality he rose above materiality, even to the extent of controlling the rapacity of the lions.

July 14, 1923 issue
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How May I Know?
EDWARD KENNEDY
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Working Together
LAURA DUNBAR HAGARTY
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Spiritual Vision
HELEN LUDLOW JACOBY
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The Elder Brother
SOPHIE WORDSWORTH WILLIAMS
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"Judge not, that ye be not judged"
FRANCES W. SCOTCHBROOK
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The Simplicity of Christian Science
SAMUEL FREDERICK SWANTEES
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Assurance
AGNES E. TURNER
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Kindly allow me to challenge, as extremely unfair, the...
Clifford P. Smith,
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Mary Baker Eddy, in "Rudimental Divine Science"...
Lester B. McCoun,
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Professor Fiske, formerly a lecturer on philosophy in...
Harry L. Rhodes,
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In the teaching and practice of Christian Science the...
Gudrun G. Jensen,
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Like Paul
MAUDE CLARK HOUGH
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The Prayer of Understanding
Albert F. Gilmore
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Enduring to the End
Ella W. Hoag
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Protection
Duncan Sinclair
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From the Directors
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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The Lectures
with contributions from Samuel W. Greene, Edwin A. Robinson, John M. Tutt, Charles W. Curtis, Lilian G. Good-speed, Andrew J. Graham, Paul Stark Seeley, F. W. West, Frank H. Leonard, William Parry Dale
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I wish to express my gratitude to God and to Christian Science...
Johanna Bondesson Adler
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I am sending you the following testimony of blessings...
Edith H. Parnell
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About six years ago, having suffered untold agony for...
Harry G. Thomas
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I had been a great sufferer for six years from internal...
Carrie Bear Paddock
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"Man's extremity is God's opportunity," we are told
Eva Irene Phillips
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Trust
MAY SEIBEL
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Henry Stiles Bradley