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Borrowed Problems
In the Christian Science Sentinel under date of November 12, 1904, are these words by Mrs. Eddy: "Good deeds overdone numerically, or bad deeds, are remedied by reading the Manual." To at least one student of Christian Science this statement appeared almost startling. The reading of the Manual for the rectifying of bad deeds was easily understood, but how good deeds could ever be overdone, or in need of correction, was not so obvious.
The word "numerically" means "in point of number." "Good deeds overdone numerically," then, must mean good deeds overdone in point of number; in other words, good deeds done and done and overdone, until perhaps the confused recipient seems almost to lose his power to act by having everything taken out of his hands through another's false sense of responsibility. There seems to be such a thing as doing too much for people, doing too much for the same ones, smothering them with kindness, doing their growing for them, making their demonstrations for them so that they will be saved the effort. It is a well-known fact in nature that if a butterfly is assisted by human hands to emerge from his outgrown cocoon, his wings will be small and weak, and often injured. How often does misguided human love dwarf and stultify the spiritual progress of some dear one by blindly saving him from the very experience which would make him grow!

July 5, 1924 issue
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Self-Knowledge
W. STUART BOOTH
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Borrowed Problems
LOUISE KNIGHT WHEATLEY COOK
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Tenderness
ERNEST C. MOSES
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"Forgetting those things which are behind"
DORINDA HINKSON
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The Reading Room
GENEVIEVE P. OLSON
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Humility
LILLIAN V. BYRD
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God's Glory
MYRTLE A. ROWE
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The Only Wealth
ALICE LIVINGSTON EAGAN
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Your Benoni correspondent probably knew better when...
Cecil Sebastian Bellairs, Committee on Publication for Transvaal, South Africa,
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Any person sufficiently interested in this subject to investigate...
Richard Edward Prince, Committee on Publication for the State of Virginia,
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In a recent issue a professor is reported as saying that...
William Charles Brookes, Committee on Publication for Midlothian, Scotland,
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In an editorial printed in your issue of March 7, under...
Robert G. Steel, Committee on Publication for the State of Michigan,
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Christian Scientists do not worship Mary Baker Eddy in...
Arthur John Chapman, Committee on Publication for the State of Louisiana,
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Christian Science does not insist that healing is accomplished...
Fred Yould, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia,
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Christian Science is based entirely on the words and...
Miss Kate E. Andreae, Committee on Publication for Sussex, England,
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Mary Baker Eddy, inspired by God, discovered the...
Hugh Stuart Campbell, Committee on Publication for the State of Illinois,
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The Wayside
MARION SUSAN CAMPBELL
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Trusting God
Albert F. Gilmore
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"Truth makes man free"
Duncan Sinclair
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Let There Be Lifting Up
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Cora Wiederhold, Edward E. Bean, Gavin W. Allan, Frau Wanda Reim, Richard Barlow
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Prior to July, 1918, I eagerly tried all doctors and...
Albert W. Wolke with contributions from Margaret Wolke
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Before knowing anything about Christian Science I...
Mary Beausire
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I heard of Christian Science for the first time in 1906,...
Else Douglas with contributions from Georg Douglas
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I wish to express my gratitude for the many healings...
Mabel E. Boucher
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Last winter, after some active mental resistance to a...
Kathleen A. Johnston
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In the early winter of 1920, weary, worn, without hope,...
Anna R. S. Talley
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I should like to tell of an experience I had some years...
Nellie Campbell Askey
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I wish to acknowledge through the columns of the...
Nellie Yates
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Christian Science was brought to my attention about...
Agnes Du Prée with contributions from William A. Bennett, Ethel Gidley Bennett
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from S. W. Straus, Jacob Alschuler, J. Stuart Holden, Clarence Reed