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Signs of the Times
[Editorial in the Frederick Leader, Oklahoma]
We are learning more about neighborliness just now than we did during the days when prosperity was at high tide. When we are prosperous we get the idea that we are sufficient unto ourselves — and we do not feel the need of neighborly helpfulness. If our neighbors are prosperous, also, we see no occasion for exerting ourselves on their behalf. One of the compensations for periods of general distress is that they cause selfishness to be submerged in consideration for others. They teach us to be kind, because we need that others shall be kind to us. They make the Golden Rule seem very desirable in our lives, because we need that others shall apply it to us.
Most people in a Christian country are theoretically kind and charitable. Many of them depend on organized societies to give expression to their desire to conform to the recognized duty to do something for others. These are necessary and ennobling. But the sort of kindness and charity which makes us really compassionate is that which we exercise ourselves — with our own hands, by our own word of mouth, from the depths of our own hearts.
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October 10, 1931 issue
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Attaining Perfection
MARY H. CUMMINS
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Salesmanship
CHARLES CLAUDE CASEY
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"No man gave unto him"
EDNA ROSS COWAN
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Obedience to Principle
HERBERT BUCHER
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The Man Who Has Dominion
FRANC BARKMAN CURRY
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The Joy of Gratitude
RUTH PUTNAM
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Our Brother's Face
RUBY C. BECKER
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Indivisible Fealty
OLIVE HILDRETH MAYER
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In a review appearing in the "Book Browsing" columns...
Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
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May I point out to a doctor whose letter appears in...
William K. Primrose, Assistant to the District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
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With regret I have observed in your esteemed paper a...
J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,
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I shall be glad if you will allow me to reply to two letters...
Miss Kathleen O'Connor, Committee on Publication for Somerset, England,
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In a recent issue of your valued paper appeared an item...
Merrill M. Hutchinson, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia,
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Mary Baker Eddy
GRACE HOFFMAN WHITE
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Persistence
Duncan Sinclair
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Poise and Invariableness
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Samuel W. Greene, Gove S. Taylor, W. Stuart Booth, Robson Storey, William Wallace Porter, Arthur Maitland Crosthwaite, Nelvia E. Ritchie, Bessie P. Grissom, Richard J. Davis, Maggie Connell
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From 1914 I was under arms
Hans Herzberg with contributions from Else Herzberg
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I began the study of Christian Science during the summer...
Clara Morris with contributions from Maurice F. Morris
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In the Manual of The Mother Church, Mrs. Eddy, the...
John T. McCarthy
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While on a vacation trip in the summer of 1920, I broke...
Velva Margaret Brough with contributions from Martha C. Pederson
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I first began the study of Christian Science about six...
Alice B. Logan
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I am grateful for Christian Science, for through it I...
Nannie B. Walker
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I want to express my gratitude for the teachings of...
Elizabeth B. Jamieson
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About ten years ago I was suffering from goiter in its...
Brenda M. Whyman
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Eleven years ago I was suffering from what a prominent...
Bertha Jones with contributions from A. W. Parsons
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from J. C. Penney, Charles Edwards Park, Nicholas Murray Butler, C. E. Pettibone