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A Fresh Start
One of the many cheering aspects of Christian Science to the pilgrim who is striving to find his way out of the fog of materialism into the sunshine of spirituality is that there is no time, place, or circumstance which can prevent him from making a fresh start. Just where he is at the moment when the desire to do better comes to him, is the place to make a new start. No past failure, fear, disease, or sin can keep him from making a splendid new beginning. However difficult or muddled the past may have seemed, he can start at once to work his way out and up; and nothing can hinder his progress, if he be honest and in earnest.
The Bible tells us in the thirty-first chapter of Deuteronomy that "the Lord thy God ... doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee;" and we read in Mrs. Eddy's work, "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 347), these beautiful words: "Those who know no will but His take His hand, and from the night He leads to light." What greater comfort could any one have in an honest endeavor to make a fresh start, than to know and understand the ever-presence and protection of God?
With Jesus, the teaching and healing work for others was always preliminary to a new beginning. He corrected the belief when it presented itself, that any past event could prevent any one who honestly desired spiritual healing from being healed and, thereafter, starting afresh. When he healed the one born blind, as it is recorded in John's gospel, he refused to admit that any past circumstance or relationship could bring on a condition which could not be seen instantly as nothing, through the understanding of Truth. What a wonderful experience it was for this youth who had lived in darkness all his days to have his eyes suddenly opened! What a marvelous beginning afresh it must have meant to him!
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May 17, 1924 issue
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"Wherefore didst thou doubt?"
IRVING C. TOMLINSON
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A Fresh Start
SUSAN F. CAMPBELL
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"A large place"
JOHN SIDNEY BRAITHWAITE
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Illusion Dispelled
KATE DULLAM HAWKINS
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Advancing Footsteps
MILDRED F. GOODCELL
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"In the midst"
JEAN MARGARET MUNRO CUNNINGHAM
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Protection
GERTRUDE ELIZABETH SIMMINS
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Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of...
Carrington Hening, Committee on Publication for the State of New Jersey,
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A wise judge once said, "There is no wiser nor more...
Bevy C. Godwin, Committee on Publication for the State of Mississippi,
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While Dr. Searle is right in stating in "Expense and...
Harry K. Filler, Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,
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Christian Scientists rejoice with those of other denominations...
Fred Yould, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia,
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Christian Science does not accept modern applied psychology...
Stanley M. Sydenham, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,
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A Calgary physician, in an article in the Herald, proposing...
Peter B. Biggins, Committee on Publication for the Province of Alberta, Canada,
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Christ-Healing
RAY G. BROWN
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"Wise unto salvation"
Albert F. Gilmore
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God's Holy Mountain
Ella W. Hoag
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"Cast thy burden upon the Lord"
Duncan Sinclair
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The Lectures
with contributions from Eric Carr, Archibald C. Olds, Malcolm W. Bayley, Ruth Ewing
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The knowledge that God governs man and that there is...
Marjorie Shuler
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I wish to submit the following testimony of my healing,...
Frank M. Hilton
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About three years ago curiosity took me to the first...
Rose Koehler Briggs
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Christian Science came to my notice in the early part...
Harry J. Wood
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Several years ago I went from the East to Oklahoma...
Mabel Irma Thompson
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For many years I suffered from an ulcerated stomach
Vincent Milliet
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At a very early age I acquired the tobacco habit
Orlando J. McClure
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The prophet Isaiah said, "The people that walked in...
Ida L. Gardner
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I wish to express my sincere gratitude for the healing...
Harriet D. Ross
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For all the blessings I have received since taking up the...
Laura Mary Yoxall
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Companionship
HERSCHEL P. NUNN
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Rufus M. Jones