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Signs of the Times
[From the Times, London, England]
When we desire a "happy" year for ourselves and our friends, what precisely do we mean by happiness? To identify it with peace and prosperity is, after all, to touch but the surface of life, so far as those terms are limited to our external circumstances. A year bringing unexpected wealth and concord might yet, in the deeper sense, be a most unhappy year if material growth were to mean the growth of materialism. Equally a year thick with troubles and disappointments might yet in truth be a signally happy year if it should bring to us and our neighbors a clearer vision of God, a mind more resolved to place His will first, a brotherhood transferred from the region of sentimentality into a vivid consciousness of our relationships in God's family. When, following this line of approach, we again try to estimate what the near future is likely to hold for us, the grounds of encouragement are definitely stronger. There are distinct signs today of a religious revival, a revival the more likely to be lasting because it is unspectacular and is developing slowly from within. Already its influence is perceptible in many fields. . . . Frivolity of the imbecile type is no longer fashionable among the young; they are studying religious and social problems with keener attention, and are rediscovering the supreme interest of the Bible. No doubt there is still much to be set on the other side of the account; self-indulgent folly and indifference to the deeper aspects of life remain too common, and more pernicious even than these is the poisonous spirit that would foment class hatred and pour scorn on sacred things. Yet, when every allowance has been made for the uglier symptoms, it does seem true that a widespread return to religion can in fact be discerned today. A year which witnessed a definite advance of this movement would be a year not lacking the best kind of happiness.
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December 30, 1933 issue
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Personality, Individuality, Identity
ALBERT F. GILMORE, M. A., LITT. D.
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True Economy
MARIE DERL SCHREIER
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"I am the light of the world"
FRIDA JACOB
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"The pure in heart"
COURTLAND L. BUTLER
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Democracy and Leadership
MABEL REED HYZER
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"Thou hast put gladness in my heart"
MILDRED G. PORTER
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"Silver and gold have I none"
ARTHUR A. CROSBY
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Examinations
BESSIE JONES
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Two letters in a recent issue of the Advertiser under the...
Thomas A. Wyles, Committee on Publication for South Australia, in the
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In your issue of the 9th, which contained a report...
Alfred Johnson, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England, in the
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Only one whose information was obtained from unreliablo...
W. Archibald Wallace, Committee on Publication for the State of West Virginia,
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Your correspondent in a recent issue again expresses his...
Mrs. Mary Blanch Jones, Committee on Publication for Gloucestershire, England,
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Peace
ALICE W. EUBANK
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"Spirit the starting-point"
Duncan Sinclair
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Widening Our Horizons
W. Stuart Booth
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The Lectures
with contributions from Donald R. Fox, Jerome A. Moss, Ralph O. Cope, Merle B. Judkins, Grace Vradenburg
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As an expression of gratitude for many blessings received...
Rena Lillian Ehrlich
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My first experience with Christian Science was when...
Joseph Moreton
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I am very happy to acknowledge the debt of gratitude I...
Gladys A. Player with contributions from D. Hort Player
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There are a great many reasons why I am grateful for...
Elisabeth Frease Smith
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In October, 1922, I was suffering from the effects of a...
Viahnett S. Martin with contributions from Ernest J. Martin
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For sixteen years I have been a student of Christian Science,...
Rachel Frances Westcott
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After becoming interested in Christian Science, through...
Herbert Wood Carey
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It is with deepest gratitude to God and to our beloved...
Leonore F. Bade
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I am very grateful for all the Christian Science literature;...
Albert Matthew Nauer
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God's Will
ISABEL I. HERRICK
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Donald C. MacGuire, Willsie Martin