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Message and Messengers
In all ages there has been human evidence of a power for good traceable to no human source. In fact, but for this invisible, potent influence, mankind must long since have been irretrievably lost in the maze of sin and fear—materiality. When humbled and hard pressed by affliction, an individual is apt to turn yearningly to a higher power for salvation from his troubles. Job, for instance, oppressed by physical suffering and the loss of all that he had prized, when listening to Elihu must have yearned to understand the import of these words: "If there be a messenger ... an interpreter, ... to shew unto man his uprightness." Through such a messenger, interpreter of good, he could look for deliverance from the pit, for a ransom, for rejuvenation, joy, and righteousness. Through Job's sincere longing there came to him the true sense of God, and the restoration on the basis of Mind of that which he had lost sight of through faith in matter.
All the world is really yearning for the same spiritual awakening for which Job yearned, and it is at hand for all. Bewildered by its failure to eradicate fear, sin, and warfare, and discouraged by its inability to establish integrity and permanent health, humanity has grown more teachable. It is acknowledging that philanthropy, collective effort, and the exercise of intellect and human will, however well-intentioned, do not hold within themselves the means of salvation from conflicting motives and cross-purposes.

September 30, 1933 issue
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Church Membership According to the Pattern
EZRA W. PALMER
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"The brook in the way"
IDA FLORENCE SAWYER
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Unfoldment, the Result of Going Forward
JUNE F. FLANDERS
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"The sustaining infinite"
FRANK S. VERNON
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Business Meetings
PEARL E. WEST
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Sufficient Understanding
LINDEN E. JONES
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The First Case
JULIA M. JOHNSTON
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Your issue of July 3 carried a misleading reference to...
William Wallace Porter, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
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In your issue of Tuesday, excerpts are quoted in your...
Robert C. Humphrey, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia,
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As reported in your issue of April 13, a speaker addressing...
Richard O. Shimer, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,
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I see in your issue of April 28 that there is a letter regarding...
Paymaster Capt. William H. Coomber, Committee on Publication for Bedfordshire, England,
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Loveliness
MABEL CONE BUSHNELL
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Ultimate Harmony
Duncan Sinclair
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Message and Messengers
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Jessie D. Houston, Clara M. Losee, Jane Elizabeth Harrison, Anna Cady Schuster, Maude West Baker, Mary Alexia Cusack, E. Merritt Weidner
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I wish to express my sincere gratitude for the many...
Rhea M. Fourman
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In the early part of 1923 I was urged by some friends...
Dorothy Annie Moore
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I have been interested in Christian Science for over...
George B. Owens
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It is eleven years since I first heard of Christian Science...
Hermann H. Trenne
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Because of my heartfelt gratitude for all that Christian Science...
Florence E. B. Warren
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Since girlhood I have enjoyed the many blessings which...
Lillian Elvira Benson
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It is with a great sense of love and gratitude that I send...
Florence M. Erskine with contributions from Percy C. Ainsworth
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Harold T. Janes, C. H. S. Matthews, F. Townley Lord, Augustus Field Beard