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Opportunity
How often we hear expressed by someone the wish that he had taken advantage of some past opportunity, or the bewailing of the fact that there are not the opportunities in the present that existed in the past! To one instructed in Christian Science, however, it is clear that life with all its varied experiences is an ever unfolding, unending series of opportunities for overcoming evil in all its myriad forms, by the demonstration of omnipresent good. No matter what the seeming material condition with which the student is confronted, he will turn it into an occasion for overcoming.
The task at hand that requires doing, however lowly, can be made into a golden opportunity for growth and advancement, if we but recognize spiritual possibilities and use today's grace for today's work. The opportunity for being better, kinder, more loving, and wiser is ever present. The door of opportunity is never closed to us, and we can always see it. Do not the words of Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, telling us to rejoice and be glad when we are hated or despitefully used or persecuted, imply that such an eventuality is but an opportunity to love more, forgive more, and bless our enemies—in other words, to grow in wisdom and understanding and grace? The spiritual law, as expressed in the Master's teaching and exemplified in his living, is that we reflect good by receiving good and manifesting good.
Every adverse circumstance presented to Christ Jesus, whether involving sin, disease, deformity, or death, was regarded by his spiritual clear-sightedness as an occasion for bringing to light health, harmony, and life; for proving the nothingness of evil and the allness of God, good. And his promise to us is, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." If we will but learn to meet through love and spiritual understanding whatever comes, we can destroy every lie of evil with the reality of Truth.
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April 29, 1933 issue
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Opportunity
JANE M. KINNEY
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Overflowing Plenteousness
LOUIS SEABER
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"Make me thereof a little cake first"
NEVA CORNWELL
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The Perfect Gift
DAVID ALLEMAN VAN VOORHIS
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"Ye joyous children"
MURIEL ASHCROFT BILLINGS
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"They shall be all taught of God"
EVELYN M. PINNELL
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Listening and Following
CONSTANCE HEWARD
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Peace
ISABEL I. HERRICK
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Kindly permit me to correct a misrepresentation of Christian Science...
Byron B. Haviland, Committee on Publication for the State of Washington,
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In your issue of November 25, you quote a clergyman's...
Carl Walter Gehring, Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,
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May I thank "Observer" for his interesting comments on...
Miss Kathleen O'Connor, Committee on Publication for Somersetshire, England,
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In your issue of January 28 there appears an article in...
William A. Gilchrist, Committee on Publication for the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada,
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Acknowledgment
CAROLINE L. DIER
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Profit
Violet Ker Seymer
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No Incurable Disease
W. Stuart Booth
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Notice
with contributions from Richard J. Davis, Samuel W. Greene, Salem Andrew Hart
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The Lectures
with contributions from Monna Love Drake, Marie S. Doolittle, Aline E. Hower
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I wish to express my gratitude for the great blessings...
John B. P. Seccombe
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My gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me...
Florence Pier Scott
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Too long have I delayed in giving expression to my heartfelt...
Anna Doyle Kennedy
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For my wonderful healing through Christian Science, I...
Johanna Borsdorf
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During the two years which followed my first contact...
Eliseo S. Blanco
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For the many blessings and healings I have both received...
Ruth Kennebrew Resler
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I have much pleasure in testifying to the happiness and...
Elizabeth Airey
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Over twenty-six years ago Christian Science came into...
Sadie M. Gervais
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Love Divine—A Hymn
ELIZABETH B. CATE
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Howard Chandler Robbins, James Reid, Edward N. Spirer