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Work and Rest
Christian Science takes the tenseness out of work and the laziness out of leisure. It does away with the human belief in overaction and inaction by unfolding the fact of divine Mind's harmonious omniaction. It teaches us that in both work and leisure there should be a sense of resting in eternal Truth and the assurance of unlabored spiritual strength. True thinking is true living. In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 254) Mrs. Eddy writes: "Watch, pray, demonstrate. Released from materialism, you shall run and not be weary, walk and not faint."
Fatigue and restlessness result from ignorance or forget-fulness of the fact that all inspired vision and loving service is traceable to God, infinite Mind. Of anxious toil it is written in Ecclesiastes: "For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taken not rest in the night. This is also vanity." Have not many of us lain awake at night, disturbed by mental pictures and feeling unable to break away from them? This may be due to a lack of spiritual vigilance and fidelity to divine Principle during the daytime. Or it may be due to an undestroyed belief in the unrest of many minds, claiming to be transmitted. Christian Science holds the remedy in either case, and in proportion as we use it, we enter into the rest of spiritual-mindedness.
July 25, 1936 issue
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"The sustaining infinite"
MINNIE H. GRISWOLD
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"The spiritual power of a scientific, right thought"
LILLIAN M. MC CULLOUGH
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Solving Problems in Christian Science
ARTHUR A. CROSBY
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Builders
FLORENE MARCUS BURNHAM
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"Tear or triumph"
MILDRED A. DYCKMAN
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"The world has need of you"
DOROTHY R. SEXTON
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Improving Our Education
ALBERT E. LOMBARD, JR.
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Beauty and Goodness
MYRTLE ELLA ROBERTSON
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Since the report of a meeting of the International New Thought Alliance...
The Hon. C. Augustus Norwood, Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,
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On behalf of the Christian Scientists of Connecticut, I...
Louis N. Denniston, Committee on Publication for the State of Connecticut,
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It is particularly interesting for Christian Scientists to...
Leslie Burn Andreae, Committee on Publication for Norfolk, England,
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God is Love
ROSA D. STOCKER
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From a letter dated 1895
MARY BAKER EDDY
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Affirmation of Spiritual Truth
Duncan Sinclair
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Work and Rest
Violet Ker Seymer
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Letters
with contributions from The Christian Science Board of Directors, The Ushers of The Mother Church
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The Lectures
with contributions from Leah Bohn, Julia J. Edner, Richard B. Corridon, Eleonora Caccia, Ernest Gustav Lorenzen, Curtis LeRoy Coats
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In the year 1914 I took up the study of Christian Science...
Frederick Douglas Smith
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I did not take up the study of Christian Science for healing,...
Eva Overholtzer
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Towards the close of 1932 I was very suddenly attacked...
Caroline Bekker with contributions from Ferdinand Bekker
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It is with sincere gratitude that I give this testimony,...
Annie Hellier with contributions from Oliver F. Hellier
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I often think of Christian Science as the "blue print" to...
William Franklin Rice
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It is with a heart full of gratitude for what Christian Science...
Jean Wills Barnett
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Many years ago, when I was a sickly child, a dear friend...
Florence Romaine
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Like many others I was led to Christian Science for...
Martell Travis
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Such as I Have
MINNY M. H. AYERS
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Ernest H. Cherrington, Stewart, Norman Vincent Peale