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The First Music Lesson
[Written Especially for Children]
One spring morning the new piano arrived and was set in its place. In eager anticipation the family gathered to listen as the mother played upon it, and then the youngest of the family asked to have her turn. Seating herself upon the stool she beat her little hands upon the keys, but the result was very different from the effect produced by the mother's playing. The untrained little hands could bring no harmony from the keys. In great disappointment she looked up to her mother and asked, "But where is the music?"
The mother remembered what Mrs. Eddy had so carefully explained in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 467), "Reasoning from cause to effect in the Science of Mind, we begin with Mind, which must be understood through the idea which expresses it and cannot be learned from its opposite, matter." Many times the mother herself had looked to material things hoping to find harmony. The patient study of Christian Science had taught her that only through the understanding of the divine Principle of harmony and the application of its rule could she attain the demonstration of perfection.

September 9, 1933 issue
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Divine Activity in Business
JOSEPH CARL MARKSTEIN
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"Our heavenly Parent"
ELSE W. SWINSON
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The Christian Science Textbook
FLORENCE A. MYERS
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The Way of Supply
EMIL SCHMIDHAUSER
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The Joys of Ushering
ANNA EMANUEL WILLIAMS
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Christian Science Gives True Hope
WILLIAM A. HANSEN
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The First Music Lesson
OLGA PRINTZLAU
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Thought Unconfined
MINNY M. H. AYERS
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Christian Science is a religion based on the understanding...
George Channing,
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Your correspondent, "Puzzled," in making some friendly...
Mrs. Mary Blanch Jones,
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My attention has been called to an article reprinted in...
W. Archibald Wallace,
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A writer in your "What Others Think" column made a...
Joseph G. Alden,
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Christian Science teaches that God's forgiveness of sin...
Albert John Windle
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Childlikeness
PHYLLIS BEAUFORT YOUNG
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Testimonies of Healing
Duncan Sinclair
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The One Power and Presence
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Henry Bryson Ayers, Ida Denny Wheeler, John George Esser, Isabelle M. Lemke
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I can truly say with the Psalmist, "I had fainted, unless I...
H. Stanley Bullock with contributions from Lorna Mary Bullock
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My interest in Christian Science was awakened about...
Edwin Henry Dietzer
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I should like to relate some of the blessings my family...
Hazel Ellen Scott with contributions from Edna D. Inks
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Christian Science was first brought to my attention a...
Bessie Mincer Bates
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I wish to express my gratitude to God for our dear...
Jean Woodside
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Frank M. Selover, G. H. Burnett, D. L. Zorn, William Thompson Elliott, Charles A. Richmond, Frederick C. Ferry, Arthur C. Archibald, Edward A. Thompson