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The Quality of Cooperation
IN answer to the question, "What is man?" on page 475 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy answers in part, "He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas." Thus it is seen that man, including all spiritual ideas, embraces the idea of divine cooperation. Understanding the fact, how does a Christian Scientist demonstrate what this spiritual term implies? By expressing in daily activity what he understands cooperation as a divine attribute to be.
As God is the origin of this attribute, and as all of God's creation is "altogether lovely," we know that there is but one right kind of cooperation, namely, loving, intelligent, divine cooperation; the perfect, complete, harmonious, selfless, spiritual union of divine Principle and its idea, man. God's children, including all good, manifest this right idea of union, because it is impossible for spiritual man to do otherwise.
Mere material union is barren of accomplishment. True spiritual union, in which there is strength, is the real, the indissoluble bond between divine Love and its reflection, man. Right motives are evidences of "God with us." They manifest true affiliation. If to succeed in well-doing, to achieve greatness through goodness, is to come into agreement with God, then, to express the very highest sense of cooperation, one's work and aims must be selfless. No Christian Scientist, no alert worker in God's vineyard, can afford to be a selfcentered isolationist. He cannot barricade himself within the armor of selfishness, and be a consistent Christian. Universal love portrays the love of God, and mutual love is the law of concerted right action. Our Leader writes in Science and Health (p. 266), "Universal Love is the divine way in Christian Science."
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February 21, 1925 issue
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"Whatsoever ye do"
MARJORIE SHULER
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True Prayer
SAMUEL TURNEY DOWNS
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Love Impartial
RUBY WILMETH HEDGES
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The Quality of Cooperation
HUGH STUART CAMPBELL
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"A morning without clouds"
VIOLET KER SEYMER
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Makers of Peace
MARGARET L. WINCHESTER
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Obedience
MARY I. MESECHRE
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In your issue of recent date, under the heading, "Are Faith Cures Supernatural?"...
Robert Ramsay, Committee on Publication for Lanarkshire, Scotland,
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The statement in a recent issue of your paper is another...
Arthur J. Chapman, Committee on Publication for the State of Louisiana,
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Christian Science is based upon and accepts the Bible...
Charles W. Hale, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,
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In a recent issue of your Journal you published excerpts...
Salem A. Hart, Jr., Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,
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My attention has been called to a reference to Christian Science...
Richard E. Prince, Committee on Publication for the State of Virginia,
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Healing as wrought in Christian Science is quite distinct...
Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Pennsylvania,
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Christian Scientists deal with spiritual facts, and make...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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The Christian Science Reading Room
MARY ADELAIDE AYERS
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Adam H. Dickey, C.S.D.
The Christian Science Board Of Directors
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Life Continuous
Albert F. Gilmore
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Expectation
Ella W. Hoag
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The Will of God
Duncan Sinclair
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The Lectures
with contributions from Allan P. Thompson, Robert Stanley Ross, Frederick C. Hill, Edith M. Shank, Mabel A. Birdno, Lucia C. Coulson
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I shall never forget the first Sunday that I attended a...
Arthur W. Streeter
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When I began the study of Christian Science a little over...
Josephine Van Tuyle with contributions from Lorena Van Tuyle
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When Christian Science was presented to me by a dear...
Hilda E. Lane
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Every minute of the day I feel gladder for Christian Science,...
J. Helen Wallace Smith
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I want to express my gratitude for the many blessings...
Helene Findlay
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When a friend spoke to me of Christian Science, I was in...
Mathilde Moral
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I became interested in Christian Science at a time when...
Samuel J. Campbell
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I came into Christian Science after all medical help had...
Amelia Darlington
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After undergoing three operations and being told that...
Mildred Coleman
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Restoration
GERTRUDE DEANE HOUK
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Georgia Harkness, Louis G. Hoeck, A. L. Murray, Trevor Davies, Howard A. Kelly, Harrison