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Signs of the Times
[General Smuts, in his rectorial address at St. Andrews University, as quoted in the Times, London, England]
We console ourselves with the truism that we are living in most interesting times, but the hard truth is that they are the most anxious and critical times which mankind has faced for many centuries. Speaking here today to you, the young people of this university, an old, hard-bitten campaigner like myself might be asked how I view the prospect before us, what message I have from my own experience, as one who has gone through the immense experience of our generation, to those who now stand on the threshold of this strange new world. . . .
There is nothing in the nature of things which is alien to what is best in us. There is no malign fatalism which makes fools of us in our dark striving towards the good. On the contrary, what is highest in us is deepest in the nature of things, and as virtue is its own reward so life carries its own sanctions and the guarantee of its own highest fulfillments and perfections. That is my ultimate credo; and it is not founded on hearsay, but on my firsthand experience in that cross section of the world which I have lived through. This is no doubt a slender basis of fact for so large a conclusion. But the final convictions are not inductions from experience, but insights into it. I remain at heart an optimist. . . .
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January 5, 1935 issue
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It Cannot Endure
WILLIAM R. RATHVON
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Business
GLADYS WOOLLEY JOHNSON
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True Substance
LAURA TOTTEN YODER
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Friendship
LULA W. CRUM
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"Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed"
ROSA FREI
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Peace an Individual Demonstration
EDWIN C. BARRINGER
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Signs of Activity
TERESE ROSE NAGEL
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Our Church
VIRGINIA M. CASSEL
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At a session recently held by the Georgia Medical Association...
Merrill M. Hutchinson,
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The purpose of my recent letter was, first, to remove any...
C. Shelton Agar, Committee on Publication for Natal, South Africa,
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In a recent issue of the Post I noticed the report of an...
Alfred E. F. Court, Committee on Publication for the North Island, New Zealand,
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In the Glasgow Herald, under the heading "Women's...
Robert Ramsey, Committee on Publication for Lanarkshire, Scotland,
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One Real Power
DUNCAN SINCLAIR
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Unity
VIOLET KER SEYMER
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The Lectures
with contributions from Albert W. Bee, Eustace Summers, Wayne Rhoades
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Gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me...
GRACE G. DEVAUX
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Christian Science literature had often been brought to...
LILLIE R. CONNELL
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I did not come into Christian Science for physical healing,...
JOSEPHINE DEMAS
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My earliest recollections along religious lines are my...
NELLY E. TAYLOR
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Christian Science is founded on the Bible, and an understanding...
NEWTON T. BURDICK
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I came into Christian Science for healing about ten...
IRENE MARSH with contributions from JAMES F. MARSH
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About sixteen years ago Christian Science found me a...
JENNIE KALLMAN
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In January, 1921, I was suffering very much physically,...
FRANK M. BINGER
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A Child's Thought of Heaven
ALICE TROXELL MC COUN
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Smuts, Arthur C. Archibald, Harold Bellman, Frederick L. Fagley, Nicholas Murray Butler