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Spirituality versus Popularity
Today , as always, the tendency of the so-called human mind is to seek the popular way, to imitate, to do as others do. Without pausing to ask the reason or to consider the outcome, new habits of speech, dress, recreation, and the like, are accepted and made a part of everyday experience. Instead, one should challenge the right of erroneous conditions to seem to exist. Oftentimes, neither spiritual thinking nor courage is employed, and mankind drifts aimlessly with the current of popular tendencies.
In the Preface to the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy makes this statement (p. x): "The author has not compromised conscience to suit the general drift of thought, but has bluntly and honestly given the text of Truth." In thus stating her position in her prefacing of the great volume which for thousands is leading the way from material darkness to spiritual light, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science not only has set forth a striking fact, but has indicated the only basis upon which her mission in behalf of humanity can be fulfilled. Had our Leader yielded to popular opinion, had she "compromised conscience to suit the general drift of thought," her great demonstration would have been impossible.

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