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Our Great Need
The Psalmist must have glimpsed the great fact that all good is in and of God, and he also must have recognized the total inadequacy of materiality to supply humanity's need for a satisfying sense of intelligence, health, peace, happiness, and life. In closing the seventeenth Psalm, which is in the form of a prayer to God, the Psalmist said, "As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness." Christ Jesus spoke even more plainly and directly when, in what is called the Sermon on the Mount, he counseled against seeking material riches and also against looking to and taking anxious thought for the human body. Then he gave affirmative spiritual direction in these words, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness," to which he added the promise that all needed things would follow this right seeking.
The Master did much more than offer this Christianly scientific advice, for in his experiences and demonstrations he furnished verification of the practicality of seeking first the kingdom or government of God, Truth, in one's thinking and living. Because divine Mind literally governed his motives and desires, his thoughts and actions, Christ Jesus was able to apply the ever-operative and irresistible law of Love and Life in the meeting of the human need for health, food, tax money, freedom, and protection from harm. He knew that the need of mankind is not what men who are ignorant of spiritual reality imagine it to be; Jesus considered and dealt with mental causes, whereas materially-minded men regard matter as both cause and effect, and are limited by and suffer from accepting and acting upon that erroneous assumption.

December 7, 1935 issue
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Our Great Need
W. STUART BOOTH
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Walking with God
FLORENCE IRENE GUBBINS
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Reflection
ELIZABETH CROUSE
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"The warfare with one's self"
MAURICE MC CHURCH
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Praising His Name
BERNICE M. POST
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Our Wednesday Evening Meetings
ALLEN BARNARD DRURY
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Rich Possessions
LENA PEDRICK HOWARD
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Angels
FREDDA R. GRATKE
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Now and Forever!
GRACE E. BURTT MARTIN
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Your issue of May 31 contains a letter in which the...
Charles W. J. Tennant,
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A person is commonly said to be educated if he can...
Theodore Burkhart, Committee on Publication for the State of Oregon,
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Confidence
ADAM DICKSON
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Church Work
Duncan Sinclair
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Father-Mother
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Ralph B. Scholfield, Marie B. Jessee, Bertha Ellsworth , Kate Exall Hobgen
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Christian Science was introduced into our home twenty-five...
Lillie Swartz Adese
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In grateful acknowledgment I attest to the healing power...
Augusta J. Myers
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With great gratitude I wish to testify to the healing...
Stephen Lawes Phillp
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I should like to express my sincere gratitude for Christian Science...
Margaret Pearl Hoffman
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Several years ago I had a remarkable proof of the presence...
Marvel LeVallie Anderson
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My first knowledge of Christian Science came from reading...
William E. Farr
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In 1916 I was divinely led to take up the study of...
Theresa A. Pepin
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Deep gratitude for the wonderful blessings I have received...
Elise Diederichs
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More than thirty years ago I saw a friend completely...
Charlotte A. Davis
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The Limner
IDA FULLER MOORE
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Frank Trew, C. T. Rae, N. J. Sproul