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Ruling One's Own Spirit
In Proverbs we read, "He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls." In the days when this wise saying was recorded it was the custom for cities to be strongly walled in order that all enemies might be thereby completely excluded. A city "broken down" and "without walls" was considered entirely defenseless and open to the depredations of every sort of marauder. All its treasures could be stolen, the results of long years of labor demolished, the hopes of its builders shattered, and their ambitions swept ruthlessly away. Consequently no more graphic picture than this could have been drawn of one left at the mercy of every adverse and undesirable influence, condition, or circumstance.
This ruling of one's own spirit is, then, a question of tremendous importance, since through it there is to be gained protection from all that would deplete or rob, harm or destroy, hinder or prevent the good and truly desirable in each one's experience. It was in this dominion over one's own spirit that the wise man of old evidently looked for the place of safety; and it was there that Jesus declared it to be when he said, "They that worship him [the Father] must worship him in spirit and in truth;" for how could one worship "in spirit and in truth" whose spirit was not under the control of Love itself. It is in this definitely controlled spiritual sense that the Christian Scientist must also look for safety.

July 4, 1925 issue
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The Field of Thought
CHARLOTTE RUTH DECKER
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Work
MABEL M. BEESON
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Our Reading Rooms
E. VIOLET J. DICKSEE
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Right Thinking Applied to World Conditions
THOMAS W. DIXSON
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The Right Standpoint
PAULINE JEFFERY
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"The Lion of the tribe of Juda"
ARTHUR NOEL SHAW
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A clergyman, writing in your issue of recent date, admits...
Charles W. J. Tennant, Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
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The Christian Science church has no desire for controversy...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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The laudable purpose of a gentleman...
Charles W. Hale, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,
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In some notes on a Sunday school lesson, published in...
Peter B. Biggins, Committee on Publication for Alberta, Canada,
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Spirit is Substance
MABEL A. SALT
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Letters from the Field
with contributions from Samuel Greenwood, Laura B. Weeks, Estelle P. Fleet, Helen Louise Earles
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"The beauty of holiness"
Albert F. Gilmore
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"The truth shall make you free"
Duncan Sinclair
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Ruling One's Own Spirit
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Mary Alexia Cusack, Adeline Brupbacher, William A. Silvernail, Clarence Layton, Hazel Barnes, Regina Moe Syverson, Rendle Carl Leathem, Maud V. Eder
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I became interested in Christian Science while studying...
Harry Botsford MacRae with contributions from Gerda MacRae
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Ten years ago, when I seemed at the point of nervous...
Maysie Garratt
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O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the...
Elizabeth Huntley
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One of my earliest demonstrations of the healing power...
Dorothy Shanks
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That I may in daily living be worthy, in an ever increasing...
Ralph Cyril Holmes
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My mother came into Christian Science when I was about...
Prudence Oelkers
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Faith's Blessing
EDNA L. EARNEST
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Horace F. Holton