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Joy
[Written Especially for Young People]
In a Christian Science Sunday School class of senior high school girls, the question was asked by one student, "Why is it that whenever I go anywhere thinking I am going to have a good time, I find that I don't?" The teacher, after a prayerful pause, recalled hearing of a family the members of which would say to each other as they left home, "Give a good time," instead of saying, "Have a good time." As she quoted this the student's face lighted up, and she said, "I see." She had realized instantly that one must give in order to receive. Christ Jesus brought this thought clearly to the attention of his disciples when he said to them: "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again."
How often joy seems to be taken from us when an expected letter does not come, a friend's visit is delayed, the problem of securing work is unsolved, or the purchase of something has to be postponed! And yet, what untold blessings are awaiting us as we rise above the belief that joy depends upon material things!

June 1, 1935 issue
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Good Neighbors
WILLIAM P. MC KENZIE
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Our Gratitude in Stone
DAVYE M. GILMORE
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The Omniaction of Mind
OSCAR GRAHAM PEEKE
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Hospitality
EVELYN M. PINNELL
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Rights
ANNA FRIENDLICH
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Joy
FLORA A. WATERBURY
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Out of the Depths
ROBERT ELLIS KEY
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Your issue of December 21, 1934, reports a minister of...
William K. Kitchen, Committee on Publication for New Jersey,
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With reference to your library feature last week, I should...
John A. C. Fraser, Committee on Publication for the Province of Alberta, Canada,
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Your issue of June 8 contains a letter on spiritual healing...
Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
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In the "Points from the Pulpit" column a clergyman is...
Mrs. Florence S. Smith, Committee on Publication for Queensland, Australia,
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Jesus of Nazareth
MURIEL E. WOODRUFF
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Standing Firm and Rejoicing in the Truth
Duncan Sinclair
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Reality is Power
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Esther A. Price, Lula W. Morse
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I want to express my gratitude for a healing I received...
Fordyce W. Fish
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Through sincere study and faithful application of the...
Mary Scott Vittitoe
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For some time I have had the desire to testify to the...
Annie Fish with contributions from Alice Fish
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I have felt for a long time that I should write and express...
Irene F. Cypher
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I am very grateful for the fact that all my life I have...
Frederick Carlyle Haenchen, Jr.
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I should like to testify to the healing and regenerating...
Kathryn Erickson
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Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, tells us that "God is good, and...
Forrest Benjamin Lund
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I am truly grateful for Christian Science, and especially...
Lulu Ostle Milbrad with contributions from Annis W. Hardgrove
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The Widow's Mites
FRANK BALLS OUSELEY
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Henry J. Allen, Reeves C. Havens, Richard M. Trelease, Aaron Cohen, William H. Stackel