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Opportunity, Ability, Fruition
EVERY alert individual desires to express activity. With many, activity is expressed in the work incident to the necessity of earning a living; with others, it is a matter of "self-expression." But self-expression, when it means the expression of the so-called human selfhood, does not bring lasting peace and satisfaction. For the moment it may seem to give a sense of success; but looking deeper, and through human experience, one sees that it is a bubble which bursts at the touch of spiritual reality. How, then, can one attain to truly successful activity?
Three factors—opportunity, ability, fruition—may be said to have an important part in right activity. And first, in the design or purpose of good, of God, is where one needs to be placed. We may ask in our anxiety, But how am I to find this place? This question is disposed of by the reassuring words of Christ Jesus, "I go to prepare a place for you." Could we want more than to know that the Christ prepares a place for us?

April 30, 1932 issue
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Discerning the Human Need
ETHEL MUNRO GOSS
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The Compound Idea, Man
ARTHUR CROOKENDEN
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Relinquishing Error
ETHEL COLWELL SMITH
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"Christian encouragement"
ROBERT DICKINSON NORTON
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Tending the Light
BERNICE STEWART
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Application of Christian Science
JEAN M. SNYDER
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Opportunity, Ability, Fruition
VERNITA SEELEY
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Examinations
GEORGE E. ZIEGLER
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God's Little Ones
JOAN SOLOMON
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In a religious question-and-answer column in your issue...
Edgar McLeod, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
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The Apostle John assures us that "there is no fear in...
Alfred Johnson, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,
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The pastor of a local church who devoted his sermon...
Joseph G. Alden, Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,
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With the editorial "Curbing Fakers and Quacks," in your...
Francis Lyster Jandron, Committee on Publication for the State of Michigan,
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Thought and Words
CLIFFORD P. SMITH
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Spiritual Understanding
Duncan Sinclair
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The Lectures
with contributions from Elisabeth F. Norwood, Stuart Murray, Allan G. Olson, Amy J. Jasper
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The Psalmist says, "Give unto the Lord the glory due...
May Flint Sobey
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In February, 1928, my husband was suddenly taken ill...
Ruth Widing with contributions from Wilhelm Carl Widing
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After I had read the first chapter of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...
Richard P. Young
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Christian Science was presented to me in the autumn of...
Frances M. Williams
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Christian Science has been the greatest blessing our family...
Madeleine A. Mackenzie
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When I learned of Christian Science, about seven years...
Margarete Ecker
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I am very grateful for Christian Science, and to Mrs. Eddy...
Louise C. Noble
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Twenty-seven years ago I was physically a nervous wreck,...
Elisabeth M. Hansen
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Love
HELEN WARD BANKS
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from George Henry, Edward Laird Mills, Martin Lloyd Jones, Charles E. Jefferson, Ernest H. Jeffs