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Exercise of Right Thinking
The word "exercise" is defined in part as follows: "A putting into use, action, or practice. ... Exercise in the ordinary sense is the easy, natural action of any power."
With this definition in view, it is interesting and inspiring to see how our Leader employs this word in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." On page 393 she says: "Mind is the master of the corporeal senses, and can conquer sickness, sin, and death. Exercise this God-given authority. Take possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action." We are to put into use and practice, into easy, natural action, "this God-given authority." Study of this passage awakens one to the activity and force of right thinking, and also to the fact that this true and correct thinking is natural and easy.
Does not exercise imply regularity of conscientious performance? Physical exercise certainly means this to the athlete, and spiritually mental exercise must mean this to the Christian Scientist if he is to overcome the claims of sickness and sin. He must exercise alert, active, right thinking all the time and under every circumstance. This scientific thinking is spontaneous, never laborious, and it heals sickness now as surely as it did when Jesus employed it.
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December 28, 1935 issue
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"The living beauty of Love"
NELLIE B. MACE
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The Dignity of Humility
MARY L. ALLEN
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Exercise of Right Thinking
LYDIA P. FULLER
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Divine Love, the Life of Man
ARTHUR A. CROSBY
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The True Realm of Business
ALICE VANDER HIDEN DAMON
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Rumor
ELIZABETH YATES MC GREAL
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Divine Concepts versus Sense Impressions
B. MURIEL FUNNELL
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Problem Solving
WILLIAM EDGAR MORGAN
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The Comforter
MARIAN J. COBB
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In the issue of the South African Opinion of May 17...
Raymond N. Harley, Committee on Publication for the Transvaal, South Africa,
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Your recent issue contains a letter from "Homo Sapiens,"...
William K. Primrose, Assistant to the District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
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Holding to the Real
Duncan Sinclair
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Exaltation
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Mabel Haines Morton, David Weiss
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From childhood I longed to belong to a church that followed...
Edith A. Hallas
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Many times we hear it said, "How can a mental process...
Dorothy Una Finn
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It has been my privilege to experience and prove the...
Harold F. Brookes
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Before I became interested in Christian Science, hardly...
Freman D. Sturtevant
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During the early part of March, 1934, I sustained a...
Louise Ravens
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I want to express my gratitude for the fact that Christian Science...
Delbert W. Williams with contributions from Verana M. Williams
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I thank God that through kind friends He has shown...
Dorothee Brede
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"I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall...
Helene Smith Hicks
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Choose Ye
ANNE H. BROGAN
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from H. R. L. Sheppard, A. E. Ribourg, Jay T. Stocking, Henry Ford