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Choosing One's Company
[Written Especially for Young People]
IN her Message to The Mother Church for 1900 (p. 8) Mrs. Eddy writes, "The good man imparts knowingly and unknowingly goodness; but the evil man also exhales consciously and unconsciously his evil nature—hence, be careful of your company." We are also familiar with the saying, "A man is known by the company he keeps."
While these statements have particular reference to personal associations, the wholly mental nature of human experience invites a consideration of the subject in its broader application, namely, that of one's thoughts. Our thoughts are ever our closest companions. In the words of our Leader, "They make us what we are" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 203). Good men or evil men are such by reason of the thoughts they entertain and make their own; therefore, the primal application of this question relates to the quality of the thoughts one consents to keep company with, for this will be the deciding factor in the choice of friends.
A helpful story is told of one man's early self-discipline, of how he listed the mental qualities which he believed would form the best character and supply the most dependable aids to success. At the end of each day he checked the list to see where he had succeeded or failed in conforming his thoughts and acts to his ideal. In other words, he set out to make his highest thoughts of true manhood his daily companions.
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June 10, 1933 issue
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Progress and Rewards
GORDON V. COMER
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Mission of the Christian Science Periodicals
MARIE DODGE
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Quest for Happiness
BEATRICE DE F. BARTLE
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Manna for Today
MARIE DERL SCHREIER
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Our English Services
SIMON WIJNBERG
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Reflection
MAUD W. MAKEMSON
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Choosing One's Company
SAMUEL GREENWOOD
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Progress
ANNA EMANUEL WILLIAMS
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Robert Ramsey, Committee on Publication for Lanarkshire, Scotland,
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Meinrad Schnewlin, Committee on Publication for German-speaking Switzerland,
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In a review of a book which appeared in the News, it was...
Eugene R. Dilworth, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
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Your correspondent, "A Believer," writing in your last...
Alfred Johnson, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England, in the
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Scientific Forgiveness
Violet Ker Seymer
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"Heal the sick"
W. Stuart Booth
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The Lectures
with contributions from Joseph Carl Markstein, Margaret M. Brown, James W. Morehouse, John Ralph Griffith
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With a thankful heart I should like to testify to the...
Emma Missbach
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My first healing in Christian Science, which occurred in...
Marie Jenks Adams
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My heart is overflowing with gratitude for the glorious...
Laura K. Christian
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I am very grateful for the realization and joy of ever...
Marie Bailey with contributions from Ray V. Bailey
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Gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me,...
Fannie H. Trefry
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Over fifteen years ago Christian Science was introduced...
Ann Yates with contributions from Samuel Yates
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Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science,...
Cyrus D. Kyrides with contributions from C. E. Sparks
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Russell Henry Stafford, John H. Hunter, H. W. Langdon, Mary Mott