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The Challenge
MRS. EDDY says in her Message to The Mother Church for 1900 (p. 9), "The twentieth century in the ebb and flow of thought will challenge the thinkers, speakers, and workers to do their best." Have we who love to call ourselves Christian Scientists fully accepted this challenge to the age in which we live? Are not many of us putting off our best work until some future time? If so, we must awake, and think, speak, and work our best at the present moment of understanding; for we have no other time; and unless we do so, we are not fulfilling our duty to this age.
Every Christian Scientist has had some experience in receiving the seeds of truth; and the necessity it to sow them. There are three ways of extending God's kingdom on earth,—through the written, the spoken, and the mental word. These are ways through which Love reaches human consciousness. Hence the great necessity of keeping them free from every belief of so-called mortal mind, in order that the warmth and light of divine Love may freely reach the hungry heart to-day. What if those before us who caught a glimpse of the truth of being had neglected to record it in their thinking, speaking, or works? We should have no Bible today. And yet, perhaps, they may have heard the same mental argument of fear, which we hear so often today: Some one else can do it better than I. Their love for mankind overcame the error; and so each did the best he could. It was, likewise, Mrs. Eddy's unselfed love for mankind which enabled her to do her great work, which is bringing in such a rich harvest.

February 2, 1924 issue
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Judging
ELIZABETH H. HUNT
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Learning to Obey
EVAH E. HURSH
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Gratitude
JOHN M. ORR
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The Challenge
BLANCHE E. POTTER
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Overcoming Temptation
ELLEN GEORGINA NANGLE
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Promises that Attract
JAMES CRAWFORD GIBSON
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Service
MAY SMITH DEAN
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A careful search of the records fails to indicate that...
Charles E. Heitman, Committee on Publication for the State of New York, in the
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Through the study of the Bible in conjuction with the...
William Kenneth Primrose,
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The fact that a student of Christian Science does not...
Stanley M. Sydenham, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,
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An address on "God and the Earthquake, A Modern...
Harry K. Filler, Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,
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The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy,...
Mrs. Gudrun G. Jensen, Committee on Publication for Norway,
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Letters from the Field
with contributions from Thomas Davidson
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Much Shall be Required
Albert F. Gilmore
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"In their mouth was found no guile"
Duncan Sinclair
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God Looks on the Heart
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Elva Secreste Harney, Svend Pontoppidan Broby, Bozena S. Fabry, Edward J. Vaughn, Henry C. Taylor, J. J. Cavender
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A little more than seven years ago, I went home one...
Arthur Caddel
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I am happy to be able to testify to the ever present,...
Anna Campèche
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For five years I had been unable to do any work or eat a...
Frank Ingham Crowther
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Christian Science came to me at a time when I was ready...
Laura A. Pritchard
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My wife became interested in Christian Science through...
Gunnar Gunnarson
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I should like to give another proof of God's care for His...
Ella Wentz with contributions from Samuel T. Wentz
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Since I have been interested in Christian Science I have...
Martha A. Evans with contributions from Lillian L. Osborne
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About five years ago I suffered from a nervous breakdown;...
Arthur O. Olsen
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On page 12 of "Rudimental Divine Science" Mrs. Eddy...
Zelma M. Booth
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Because I have enjoyed reading of the many beautiful...
Nathaniel Harrold Blythe
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Albert Sidney Lehr, S. J. Hocking, Noel Porter, Richard Lloyd Jones, James S. West