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Preparatory and Protective Work for Associations
"Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them," said Christ Jesus. The convening annually of the members of Students' Associations is surely a gathering together in Christ's name, according to God's plan as revealed to His willing servant, Mary Baker Eddy, since it is provided for in the Manual of The Mother Church. Thus convened, we find God's presence with us on what may be veritable Pentecostal days.
This yearly meeting was given to us by our Leader as a means whereby we might grow in the understanding of Truth. Teacher and students gather together to partake of the heavenly manna fed them by the Father. Thought must be thoroughly awake, fully prepared to grapple with new presentations of Truth in its application to daily problems. Our preparatory work, then, should include such protective work as will nullify inattention, apathy, drowsiness, lack of receptivity or retentiveness. The prayer that closes the door to these phases of mortal belief and opens wide the door to His Word is the unselfed prayer of the humble heart. All who would seek to enter should be there to give—the teacher of his treasure of unfoldment during the year, the students of their prepared receptive thought, their cooperation and obedience, their love for and loyalty to the Cause of Christian Science.
Great things are demanded of this day; great things should be expected of it. It has come about through prayer, such prayer as that of Solomon, "Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people." The prayer of sincere desire to receive in order to give is the prayer of Cornelius and of Peter, the one reaching out for a knowledge of God, the other waiting to be shown the way to the receptive thought awaiting His message. It brought not only Peter and Cornelius together, but others also who were ready to receive the truth, so that on all was poured out "the gift of the Holy Ghost." It is for this outpouring we assemble in our Association Meetings annually. It is to drink deep of the water of Life, that we may be spiritually refreshed and invigorated for the tasks of the ensuing year.
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October 5, 1929 issue
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Preparatory and Protective Work for Associations
HERSCHEL P. NUNN
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Cooperation of Grateful Thought
RUTH INGRAHAM
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The Way
WILLIAM KENNETH PRIMROSE
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The Reading Room Window
MARGARET A. MARTIN
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Sympathy or Compassion?
MARGARET T. CAMPBELL
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Faith and Logic
J. PORTER HENRY
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The Rod
EUNICE M. BRONSON
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The Rand Daily Mail reports that the president of the...
Bryan R. Savory, Committee on Publication for the
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Doctrinal controversy will not be found as any part of...
Ralph G. Lindstrom, Committee on Publication for the
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According to a report which appeared in your paper some...
Bjarne V. Böckmann, Committee on Publication for
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Part of a writer's remarks in your issue of January 12...
Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for the
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The courtesy of space in your columns is respectfully...
Miss Kathleen O'Connor, Committee on Publication for
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Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication for the Year Ended September 30, 1928
with contributions from Freeman
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Christianity: Its Science and Art
Albert F. Gilmore
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Purity of Motive
Duncan Sinclair
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Development
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Fannie Harris
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I am indeed grateful for all that Christian Science has...
Cyril Horace Whitaker
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In the last nine years Christian Science has resurrected...
Ruth A. Nickerson
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I shall always be truly grateful to the friend who told me...
Charlotte E. V. Rabus
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I did not come to Christian Science for physical healing,...
Mollie C. Thornhill
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I feel deep gratitude to God for giving us Christian Science,...
Anna Minna Schultz
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I should like to tell of a healing of inflammation of the...
Nellie McCormick
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While my son was playing on his school football team...
Rose M. Hodge
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An editorial in the Christian Science Sentinel reminded...
Herbert L. Frank
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About twelve years ago Christian Science found me griefstricken...
Emma M. Webster with contributions from Alice Mellichamp Sams
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I first heard of Christian Science when about ten years...
Margaret Mitts
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Christian Science found me when a young girl
Arva M. Knowles
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Homeward
KATHARINE WARREN KING
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Walter H. T. Gahan