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One in Quality
A Child was once asked if he would be afraid to be alone in a forest at night. "No," he replied, "because God would be there." When asked how he could be sure of that he answered, "Because I would be there!"
The child thought, which the Master told us was the only passport to heaven, had discerned a great and scientific fact—man's inseparability from God, because the omnipresence of God includes His reflection, man. To be included in Mind, man must of necessity partake of the nature of Mind; he must be divinely mental, composed not of material elements, but of divine qualities. As this truth takes possession of one's consciousness, it governs one's human experience, because of the self-enforcing Principle it reflects.
One who once found himself bound by a seemingly unyielding error, and who earnestly desired to gain a spiritual sense of the reality which the material senses misrepresent, took paper and pencil and made a list of the qualities expressed by the real man, such as love, joy, humility, individuality, intelligence, all of which are man's by reflection. This simple expedient enabled the seeker so to lift his thought "beyond and above the mortal illusion of any life, substance, and intelligence as existent in matter," as Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 302), that he began to catch a glimpse of the spiritual realities. He saw that spiritual qualities are never separated from their source, Mind; that divine qualities are never twisted, dwarfed, sick, or in pain; that man's real being is beyond the reach of malicious or ignorant evil. He saw that man's position is impregnable, because the very nature of his being constitutes his security; that what he is determines what he does.
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November 14, 1936 issue
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Overcoming Prejudice
W. STUART BOOTH
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Spiritual Citizenship
HELENA B. SHIPMAN
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One in Quality
ELISABETH PHELPS REED
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"A spiritual behest"
JANE PLECHNER
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"A deep-settled calm"
DOROTHY MARY HUTCHINGS
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Our Sunday School
ROBERT ELLIS KEY
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Love in Little Things
BARBARA D. WILSON
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"Blessed are the peacemakers"
MARGARET MORRISON
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An item in this morning's Sun (December 16) quotes a...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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The Gospel of Mark records that John, seeing someone...
Stanley M. Sydenham, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,
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Dagen of April 20 contains a critical appraisal of the...
Nils A. T. Lerche, Committee on Publication for Norway,
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Supply
MARIE ENGLE JOHNSON
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The Power of Love Expressed
Duncan Sinclair
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Truthfulness
George Shaw Cook
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The Lectures
with contributions from Rowland R. Hughes, Valeria Kaktin, Emil W. Stanz, Albert Möhl, Fern Preston Huff
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A written acknowledgment of blessings that I have received...
Cave J. Kirtley
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My study of Christian Science and the work of a faithful...
Alice Kershner
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From early childhood I could never accept the idea of...
Helen Steinbrecher with contributions from George W. Steinbrecher
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I give this testimony with a desire to pay a tithe on the...
Gwendoline M. Delany
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In 1924 I was very ill, and although I got better I was...
Flora Elsie Walters
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In April, 1934, I went to a dentist for work on an...
Arthur W. Horton
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For the manifold blessings which have come to me...
Eugenie Carena-Brühl
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It is with joy and gratitude that I take my place among...
Belle Percy Glaze
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Supremacy
DUDLEY STOW
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Ford Gilbert, Patience Strong, Merle N. Smith, Purver