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A Lesson from the Moon
[Written Especially for Children]
Janet loved to watch the full moon. It beamed upon her through the nursery window as she lay in her little bed, tucked in for the night, warm and cozy. Just like one of mother's shiny new pie plates, she thought. For Janet was a very young person, to whom permission was often given to sit by the kitchen table while her mother baked.
Sometimes while she was looking at the moon, she made up reasons to suit herself about how it was that a pie plate ever got up in the sky and how it could stay up there. Of course, if she had spoken to her mother about it, she could have found out all she wanted to know, for mother was wise about giving answers to questions. But since Janet did not say anything to anyone about the moon, she went on believing in her own way.
After a time, however, she went to school and learned to read. Before long she discovered all sorts of interesting things in her books. One lesson was about her old friend, the moon. To her great surprise she learned that it was not a fiat, shining plate at all, as she had believed it to be. The moon was really a huge, rough ball! And the book also said that the moon has no light of its own, but that it seems to be bright because the light of the sun is reflected from it, just as bits of stone in the road shine when the automobile lights strike them. Well, away went that pie plate moon forever! It would never seem real again, she knew, for she had learned the truth about it.
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November 24, 1934 issue
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The Command to Be Grateful
JOHN RANDALL DUNN
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Forward, Not Backward!
LILY R. SCHAFER
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Thanksgiving
ARCHIBALD CAREY
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Praying Daily for Themselves
JUNE F. FLANDERS
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Gratitude
GRACE E. BURTT MARTIN
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A Lesson from the Moon
ALICE DAVIS SHELMIRE
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Mount of Prayer
RUTH MARIE DILLON
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In the April 22 edition of your paper, under the caption...
Harold David Joffe,
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Your courageous publication deserves support, and it is...
Francis Lyster Jandron,
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To say that "Christian Science has no right to the name...
Gordon W. Flower,
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Highway
MARGARET L. SEAMAN
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"The sustaining infinite"
Duncan Sinclair
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"As also I am known"
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Alice A. Votaw, Cyril Roantree Hewson, Arthur C. Buck, Leonard Marks
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As a witness to Truth as explained in Christian Science...
LaVergne Edmond with contributions from Eleanor Edmond
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Over ten years ago, through the understanding of a...
Katharine E. Moore
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In January, 1920, I became interested in Christian Science
Clara L. Smith
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I have been interested in Christian Science for many...
Lewis A. Bowman with contributions from Ona Bowman
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Christian Science came into my experience in 1915 when...
Sadie E. Goodall
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In all humility I wish to express gratitude for the many...
La Rena Zellner Yetter
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In my childhood I was taught that God is a God of love,...
George Edward Denton
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As a child I was not strong and had more than the usual...
Lillian Story Griffin
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It is with great joy and thankfulness that I testify to...
William S. Sanderson
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A Prayer for Needy Ones
HAZEL HARPER HARRIS BRANDNER
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Fred H. Wight