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"If ... thine eye be single"
The dear Master, Jesus of Nazareth, told the Christian world in his Sermon on the Mount that singleness of purpose is an essential quality in one's individual progress Godward. Singleness of purpose in spiritual affairs, in faithfulness to the one God, in the laying up of spiritual treasure, in the consecration of life to Truth and Love, in the faithful discharge of one's duty for the day without anxiety for tomorrow, all this is placed before the attentive reader of the sixth chapter of Matthew, following closely upon the Lord's Prayer, which Mrs. Eddy says in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 16), indicates "the heaven-born aspiration and spiritual consciousness" which "instantaneously heals the sick."
There is beautiful accord running all through the wonderful teaching of the sixth chapter of Matthew, from its opening admonition not to give alms to be seen of men, to the last appeal to the faithful ones—to "take therefore no thought for the morrow;" that "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." It is a searching analysis of that mental state which sinks self out of sight; and it reveals the footsteps of an unselfed purpose, walking steadily forward in obedience to the rule of universal harmony. It describes the journey from sense to Soul of the consistent Christian Scientist. "If therefore thine eye be single," declares the Master, "thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness;" and then he adds the words, "If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!"

January 29, 1927 issue
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"Unselfed love"
IVA B. LINEBARGER
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Protection versus Self-Will
GERTRUDE S. PERKINS
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Democracy
HAROLD FARMER HALL
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Forward, Christian Scientists!
LAURA SPENCER DOW
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"If ... thine eye be single"
E. HOWARD GILKEY
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True Happiness
OLIVE M. PRICE
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With reference to the editorial in your recent issue, commenting...
Arthur P. De Camp, Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri,
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Members of the Christian Science church have no desire...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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For the information of your readers, kindly allow me...
Stephen J. Sametz, Committee on Publication for the Province of Manitoba, Canada,
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The Goal
MINNY M. H. AYERS
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Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication for the Year Ended September 30, 1926
Henry Van Dyke
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True Worship
Albert F. Gilmore
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God's Pardon
Duncan Sinclair
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Justice and Mercy
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Bernard Joseph Hinkle, Emil Haupt, Herman P. Thomas, Walter Alfred Tanner
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Nearly four years ago, when I was very much discouraged,...
Marie Antoinette Legros-Barbe with contributions from Ernest Legros
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In the fall of 1916, after experiencing, as I believed,...
Olive A. DeCamp
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Eleven years ago I turned to Christian Science for physical...
Walsworth T. Dimmick
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I feel that the time has come for me to testify to the...
Harriet McKenzie
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For ten years I was an invalid, under the care of various...
Lelia B. Gregory
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"The redeemed should be happier than the elect," Mrs. Eddy...
Louise Eleanor Chapman
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About four years ago I received my first introduction to...
Louisa Elizabeth Gasson
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Christian Science is the "pearl of great price" to me,...
Gladys E. Smith
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Love Divine
THEODORE ALBERT SCHROEDER
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from E. M. Cotton, Canon Anthony C. Deane