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Solemnity and Gladness
The thought of solemnity is usually shunned, lest it take from one the gladness of heart he desires to have. Many people believe they are faced with the choice between solemnity and gladness of heart, and even an avowed Christian Scientist may need to learn more and yet more of the gladness of heart which is a vital characteristic of his religion.
All questioning as to the blending of gladness of heart with solemnity is stilled in the following verse from Isaiah: "Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel." In this holy solemnity there is no heaviness, no burden; there is joy and a lifting of burdens. One needs, then, to guard against various subtle errors, such as resignation to suffering or sorrow, enfeebled hope, the "not wanted" feeling which is apt to develop into a hard crust of isolation from one's fellows. These and other unholy reactions to temptation would make ever-present harmony and happiness seem remote.
Divine Love purges the human heart of the worship of materiality and personality, which wrecks health and happiness. Gladness of heart, together with health and harmony, accompanies the manifestation of universal love, which "thinketh no evil."
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February 9, 1935 issue
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Joyous Unity
ANNA S. RAYNOLDS
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Needs Met
GEORGE PERRY DIXON
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When Spring Comes
MYRTLE R. BIGGINS
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The Gate Called Beautiful
CHARLES J. C. AUCOIN
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Love Individually Reflected
GLENN E. DOUGLAS
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Divine Sonship
PEARL G. ANDREWS
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Guideposts
DOROTHY S. HARTKEMEIER
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Understanding
NEVA L. MICHEL
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Under the by-line of "The Observer," a contributor to...
George Channing, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
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In reply to "E. W. F.," writing in your issue, let me say...
Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
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Will you kindly grant me space to reply to the letter of...
Mrs. Dorothy Hoskyn, former Committee on Publication for the South Island, New Zealand,
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Requisite Footsteps
W. Stuart Booth
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Solemnity and Gladness
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Louis J. Du Bois, Mary Theodora Cooper, Charles C. Butterworth
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For twenty-five years I suffered from severe bronchial...
Auguste Forke with contributions from Carl Forke
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Many years ago, owing to a mistaken diagnosis and the...
Aemee Ophelie Watkins
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I wish to express my gratitude for the many blessings I...
John P. Wright
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About twenty years ago my mother caught a glimpse of...
Dorothy B. Rietze
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I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science and...
Harold A. Dundas
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From birth I suffered from spinal trouble, never being...
Ida Wood Sample
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The Father
RUTH D. SMITH
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Henry A. Wallace, Archibald G. Adams, Walter Taylor Sumner, A. H. Wurtele