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Contentment
"A DISCONTENTED , discordant mortal is no more a man than discord is music." So we read on page 305 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. This shows us that we have to overcome discontent, just as we have to conquer disease and sin, in order to prove our real spiritual selfhood, the true man.
A dictionary gives "mental ease and quietude" as a definition of "content"; and quietude is peace. True contentment is a singing peace, founded upon a deep-rooted trust in God. It knows no fear, no self-pity. It is true riches. Being a spiritual quality, contentment is never dependent upon time, place, or circumstance. We must prove this today, right where we are, regardless of our surroundings. We cannot run away from the belief of discontent, because it is a mental condition and, until scientifically destroyed, may claim to be our cheerless traveling companion wherever we go.
Paul wrote to the Philippians, "I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content." When we consider the character of the apostle who made this statement, a man who was persecuted and beaten, and who spent many days in prison, his contentment presents remarkable testimony that spiritual qualities are never dependent upon material surroundings.
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November 15, 1930 issue
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No Condemnation of the Repentant
JENNIE L. BARTO
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"The silent lesson"
CHARLES V. WINN
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Contentment
MARGARET LEAVITT
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The Master Teacher
WINIFRED B. HAND
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Shaking Off False Beliefs
ALFRED MARSHALL VAUGHN
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Discarding Material Time-Tables
MARGARET L. MARSHALL
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He "came seeing"
CAROLINE GILMORE MC CLAIN
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What Is Prayer?
MARY JANE ALLURED
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On behalf of the Christian Science church, I wish to...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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In an article published in the May number of the Alberta Teachers' Alliance Magazine...
Peter B. Biggins, Committee on Publication for the Province of Alberta, Canada,
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In the Star of March 25 is a report of a sermon by a...
Israel Pickens, Committee on Publication for the State of Alabama,
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Christian Science teaches that the real man is made in the...
Kellogg Patton, Committee on Publication for the State of Wisconsin,
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Your issue of February 11 contained a report of a British-Israel...
William Pitfield, Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England,
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A report in the March 6 issue of your paper gave the...
J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,
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Miracles
Clifford P. Smith
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What Are We Fostering?
Violet Ker Seymer
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Consolation
Duncan Sinclair
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From the Directors
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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The Lectures
with contributions from William Duncan Kilpatrick, Helen B. Goyne, Ralph B. Scholfield, William Samuel Hughes
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When I came into Christian Science at the age of eight...
Virginia Ratcliffe
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My mother was healed through Christian Science treatment...
Rhoda E. Ackerman
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Some time ago, while riding, I met with a severe accident
Iain Stewart Hampton
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As we have had so many wonderful healings in our family...
Margaret W. Gordon
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After many wonderful healings in our family through...
Isabel H. Gasparo
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Remembering the admonition of Christ Jesus, "Whosoever...
Gretchen Claussen
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My Prayer
Mary H. Knox
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Mary Burt Messer, G. P. Putnam's Sons, W. Livingston Larned, Robert Hutchison, W. G. Sibley