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God's Loving Care
Mankind is beginning to understand that God is Love, and to realize something of what this profound spiritual truth implies. Christ Jesus taught the fatherhood of God, and strove to bring home to the hearts of humanity that God, the Father, cares for His creation with infinite tenderness. He illustrated the Father's love very strikingly in the parable of the prodigal son. There parental love is shown to reign with as glorious constancy when the boy's life was being lived in gross materialism as when he returned in repentance to his father's roof. On many other occasions the Master told his listeners of the love of God; and, moreover, every one of the miracles he performed demonstrated that God is Love; for not one of them could have been accomplished had he not reflected that Love in the love he expressed in his own life.
But long before Jesus' day the truth about God's loving care had been known to some extent by the prophets and seers of the Hebrew race. Thus, in the song of Moses is to be found the wonderful statement, "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms." Surely plainer words could not have been used to sing of God's loving care. "The eternal God is thy refuge"! Were God not Love, how could He be our refuge? "Underneath are the everlasting arms"! What a sense of tenderness and protection the words convey! Multiply the tender love of human fatherhood or motherhood by infinity, and we get a glimpse of the love of our Father-Mother God.
"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved." The Psalmist knew, as did Moses, the love of God for His children; knew the sustaining power of God's love; knew how God's love was to be procured when the burdens of sense were heavy. Righteousness brought the love of God into alignment with human needs, ameliorating human distress, healing human woe. Is it not a joy to contemplate how men in the distant past were appreciative of the love of God and aware of the law of its activity?
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July 28, 1923 issue
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Perfect Peace
LOUIS A. GREGORY
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Blessings
JEAN S. FREEDLANDER
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Spontaneity
FLORENCE ANNIE GUBBINS
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Working in the Vineyard
CHARLES W. SWIFT
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An Everyday Lesson
JANET H. BIBB
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Good Manners
MARGARET LATHAM HULL
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Prayer
AGNESS BOWMAN SLAYMAKER
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God's Man
FLORENCE HOUDLETTE
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The Bible declares that "God is love."
Stanley M. Sydenham, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,
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Christian Science affirms that correct thinking does heal...
William Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Maryland,
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The great need of mankind from king to peasant, from...
George C. Palmer, Committee on Publication for the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada,
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Christian Science is Christianity—the teachings of Jesus...
Douglas L. Edmonds,
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The spiritual world is the real world, and in it there is no...
J. Ormston Thomson,
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True theology is the Science or exact knowledge of God
Harry K. Filler, Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,
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Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...
Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Pennnsylvania,
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Reciprocation
NELLIE B. MACE
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Christian Ministry
Albert F. Gilmore
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True Concepts
Ella W. Hoag
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God's Loving Care
Duncan Sinclair
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From the Directors
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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The Lectures
with contributions from M. E. Harrison, Ida H. Otto, Guy J. Morgan, Grace Lowe
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Always having been deeply interested in religion and having...
Lily Rodgers Schafer
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I am very thankful to Christian Science for even the...
Jay C. Ritchie
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One Sunday morning in 1915, I told my parents that I...
Anna B. Tannenbaum
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It is with deep gratitude that I testify to the help I am...
Mary Annie Blackburrow
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As a child, I was under the strict discipline of a so-called...
Edgar M. Caskey
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It was about fourteen years ago that I went to a Wednesday...
William J. Duncan
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I have long felt that it was my duty, as well as a privilege,...
Leonora Cruikshank
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I too feel impelled to thank God for all the blessings...
Anna P. Liekweg
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It is with the greatest of pleasure as well as a heart filled...
Hannah L. Spicer
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I am very grateful for Christian Science
Ethel M. Clarkson
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Henry Ford, A. F. Sheldon