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ON the front cover, and again on the title page of the Christian Science Sentinel, appear the words of Jesus, "What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch." And on page 392 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has written: "Stand porter at the door of thought. Admitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results, you will control yourself harmoniously." In other words, we must watch our thoughts.
Christian Science teaches that God is good, ever-present and ever-available divine Principle, and that man is the expressed image of the loving Father-Mother God. Our duty is, therefore, to know the truth about God and man. To learn this is not difficult, and to continue letting it unfold in our consciousness is the necessary step. We are then thinking correctly, constructively, and positively.
To think rightly we must see that all that is real is perfect. We must see our friends, business associates, members of our family, those whom we think we do not like, as well as those we love, in their true being as God sees them—perfect. As we learn this lesson and begin to drink in the glories of a perfect universe, peopled by God's perfect spiritual ideas, we learn to eliminate all wrong thoughts. We must become watchmen, or porters. We would not accept error willingly, knowing it to be error. Our acceptance of it is through the false belief that it is real. We must, therefore, watch our thoughts to see that they come from God, and remember that by entertaining them we bless not only ourselves but all mankind. If a thought would work harm to anyone or deprive another of some good, it must be discarded as unreal and unworthy.
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April 6, 1935 issue
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Active Individual Participation
ANNA E. HERZOG
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The Healing of the Man Born Blind
LYMAN S. ABBOTT
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Employment
ALICE ODDY
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BENJAMIN F. LEWIS
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"One innate joy"
HAZEL E. ECKHART
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The Perfect Remedy
RAY SHEARER TRENT
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Closer to God
ELEANOR BRADLEY
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Urim and Thummim
MILES BUCKSTON WATTS
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Your issue of July 23 contains an article in the News...
Charles W. J. Tennant,
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I must once more request space in your newspaper to...
C. Shelton Agar, Committee on Publication for Natal, South Africa,
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A cablegram in your issue of today reports that the...
Mrs. Dorothy Hoskyn, former Committee on publication for the South Island, New Zealand,
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Testimony
IDA MARIA HANSON
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Joyous Service
Duncan Sinclair
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Mastering Menaces
W. Stuart Booth
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The Lectures
with contributions from Joseph Coffer, Laura T. Loar, Mary Casement Alsdorf
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Many are the blessings I have received through the study...
Nathaniel W. Young
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It is with great joy that I take my place among those who...
Geraldine Lucas
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It is with sincere gratitude to God for all the blessings...
Margaret Shakespeare
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It is with a heart full of gratitude for the wonderful...
Anne Juliet Lippman with contributions from Edwin R. Wilson
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When Christian Science was first brought to my attention...
Mary Ann Thomas
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About ten years ago we became dissatisfied with the...
Herman Vetter
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It is every Christian Scientist's earnest desire to think...
Virginia G. Jordan
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In deep gratitude I should like to give praise to God for...
Frieda Scharp with contributions from Carl Scharp
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Remembrance
ALICE TROXELL MC COUN
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from M. K. W. Heicher, Muriel Thompson, J. Clifford Mitchell