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Persistence
The student of Christian Science is engaged in gaining an understanding of his God-given dominion over the adverse conditions of human existence and in demonstrating that dominion. Sometimes, through lack of a clear comprehension of the nature and value of persistence, he may fail to win the complete reward of his efforts. He may even confuse right persistence with human will-power, and, the latter being erroneous, be deceived into losing his grasp on persistence. But if one's efforts are right, they are inspired by God and are guided and blessed by Him; and so no one need fear to persist in a righteous cause. An expression used by Paul in his epistle to the Romans, "patient continuance in well doing," furnishes an excellent example of the application of persistence.
God is eternal; His ideas are always active; His laws are always governing them; His love never languishes. Man, reflecting God, expresses the eternal activity of God, and, in so doing, is properly and divinely persistent. In this process of divine reflection human will has no place. Human will is of the so-called carnal mind; and, according to belief, it is capable of evil. Persistence in the right is of the divine Mind, is an expression of God, good, and can result only in good.

October 4, 1930 issue
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Divine Loveliness
NELLIE B. MACE
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Spirituality versus Popularity
GEORGE J. SCHANTZ
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"Let us unite"
ELEANOR M. GILBERT
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"Consider the lilies"
MABEL REED HYZER
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Persistence
ROBERT S. VAN ATTA
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Man, the Image of God
DORIS AUDREY R. WIGGINS
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The Children's Hour
EVELYN DALZELL
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"When the sun was setting"
GERTRUDE S. MC CALMONT
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A correspondent, in a series of articles published by you...
C. Augustus Norwood, Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,
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A speaker who recently addressed a group of students in...
J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,
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Christian Science is a reinstatement of primitive Christianity...
Ernest L. Buchanan, Committee on Publication for the Province of Manitoba, Canada,
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The Day's Work
NINA B. FARRINGTON
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Discovery of Christian Science
Clifford P. Smith
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Health, the Consciousness of Harmony
Duncan Sinclair
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Immutability
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Harvey B. Jones, Edgar A. Gerst
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About seven years ago, after a sentence of death had been...
Mattie M. Wells
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I wish to give thanks to almighty God for a proof I have...
Percy Harold Dumbell
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It is difficult to express all that Christian Science has...
Bonnie Wheeler Wilson with contributions from Anne Wheeler Fried
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I am grateful to God that I have been brought into...
Sarah May Kitson
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At the age of fifty-five I had a nervous breakdown
Walter Hunt with contributions from Elizabeth Hunt
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God has healed every illness in our home for over twelve...
Ma-Belle Balzhiser
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Hour of Prayer
CAROLINE L. DIER
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from R. W. Barstow, Courtenay C. Weeks, M. R. C. S., L. R. C. P., Stanley High, Samuel B. Booth, W. E. Hosking, Finis Idleman