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Thy Perfect Neighbor
God has given man dominion over all the earth with the right to be free, happy, and loving at all times. But this dominion often seems to be very far away when one is confronted with what appear to be the imperfections and limitations of himself and his fellow men. Mortal mind goes to one of two extremes. It either accepts all of human consciousness as good, and so worships and idolizes the human concept, or it becomes so aware of the human short-comings that they become fixed realities and shut out appreciation of the good reflected in human consciousness. In either case a man is bound by mortal sense and is robbed of his dominion. Christian Science saves him from these extremes and brings him onto the safe mental ground, where erroneous beliefs are recognized and deprived of reality, and the spiritual idea is revealed.
The truth about our fellow man is that he is now perfect—not the human sense which we entertain of him, and which we think he manifests—but the spiritual idea, his true identity, which has always existed in and is maintained by Mind. That is all that is real about him, and it is our right to be conscious of that spiritual identity. He, the real man, manifests every beautiful quality of divine Love, and we cannot help loving him. The belief that error is real, that it is person, would claim to rob us of that fact and the joy of loving our brother.
October 12, 1935 issue
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Human Footsteps Indispensable
EMMA C. SHIPMAN
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Man and Nature
JAMES R. M. BUTLER
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Undisturbed
D. MURIEL SAVARY
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Thy Perfect Neighbor
JAMES A. VINCENT
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Home
WINSTON G. MITCHELL
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Giving
STANLEY C. MORGAN
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Prizes
MABEL HEY
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The Beautiful Gate
MARION ALICE BOWERS
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The editorial page of the Showmen's Trade Review...
William Wallace Porter, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
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Your correspondent's dictionary definition of reality as...
Stanley M. Sydenham, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,
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In Stavangeren of December 11, a doctor announces...
Nils A. T. Lerche, Committee on Publication for Norway,
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Love Speaks
JOAN MC WILLIAMS
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Our Opportunities
Duncan Sinclair
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"An impervious armor"
George Shaw Cook
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The Lectures
with contributions from Enid Jackson Fulton, Friedrich Schumacher
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Some years ago while under medical treatment for...
Harry E. Troyer
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During the twenty years that I have been a student of...
Sarah Bashforth with contributions from Hilda M. Harrison
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About seven years ago I experienced periodic and very...
Ethel E. Peters
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Although at our testimony meetings I have often given...
Carrie Nicoll
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With a thankful heart I should like to testify to a healing...
Hermann Mörtzsch
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My interest in Christian Science began when I was about...
Charlotte Jessie Newland
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This testimony is given in gratitude and appreciation for...
Christ P. Theodore with contributions from Dionysia Theodore
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Awake, Thou That Sleepest
ALMA G. V. HARRISON
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Norman S. Easterbrook, L. B. Ashby, Charles Reynolds Brown, Stephen C. Clark, Jr., Orion C. Hopper