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Right Thinking
When beginning the study of Christian Science, the student learns that his physical condition and surroundings express the thoughts which are entertained about them. If his thoughts are of God and reflect Him in goodness, perfection, harmony, then his physical condition appears proportionately harmonious and his environment pleasant. If, on the other hand, carnal or evil beliefs are allowed to dwell in his consciousness, there is liable to be inharmony and distress. On page 270 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes: "Mortals think wickedly; consequently they are wicked. They think sickly thoughts, and so become sick." Thus, mortals make their own discordant conditions. Knowledge of this fact is a great step in overcoming the erroneous belief that man is the helpless victim of circumstances, subject to chance, and unable to do anything about it.
The important thing for the student of Christian Science who is endeavoring to improve his thinking, and therefore his condition, is to learn how to entertain in his consciousness only right thoughts. Christian Science shows us exactly how this is to be accomplished. It shows us how to cast out beliefs of doubt, fear, anxiety, and the like, and to allow ideas of peace, serenity, and security to dwell in our consciousness. It shows how to cast out beliefs of disease, sin, and calamities, and to replace them with ideas of health, holiness, and harmony. This, however, does not always seem easy to do. Mortals have so long believed that they are helpless in the face of material so-called laws and conditions, that even though they have been instructed in Christian Science it sometimes seems hard to do as Mrs. Eddy admonishes (ibid., p. 261), namely, to "hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true."

September 5, 1936 issue
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Just One Way
ALBERT M. CHENEY
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Healing through Divine Reflection
IRENE OPPENHEIM
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Discipline
WILLIAM HALE COOMBER
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Filling Vacant Seats
MARY WELLINGTON GALE
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"And caused them to understand"
RUTH IRENE ROSS
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Right Thinking
ELIZABETH CONANT DE SILVA
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Going Away to College?
JACK SCHWARTZ
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Be Still
AVIS CLARKE ARMSTRONG
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In a recent issue of the Press there appeared a letter...
William Brantly, former Committee on Publication for the State of Tennessee,
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Replying to a letter signed "D. L." which appeared in...
Mrs. Florence S. Smith, Committee on Publication for Queensland, Australia,
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In today's Eastern Daily Press there appears a report of a...
Leslie Burn Andreae, Committee on Publication for Norfolk, England,
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Not as an Hireling
MARGARET MORRISON
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From a letter dated 1905
MARY BAKER EDDY
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Overcoming Fear
Duncan Sinclair
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Control, not Excess
Violet Ker Seymer
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Notice
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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The Lectures
with contributions from Val Duncan, Arthur C. Buck, Dwight Weldon Barton, Herman F. DeVol, Ethel A. Brewer
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Over six years ago several doctors who had examined me...
Johanna Reimmann
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It is indeed cause for rejoicing to have a religion that is...
Vivian G. Willbur
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At the period when I found Christian Science I was not...
Valentina Gershgorin
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On page 206 of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy we read,...
Charles S. Davis
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Twenty years ago I was led to Christian Science
Christina James
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For the past six years I have experienced much peace...
Chester E. Frasier
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Many healings have taken place in the years that I have...
Agness Schmidt Louks
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Having had so many blessings through the study of...
Victoria Ashcroft Jukes
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"They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great...
Harriet Partridge Stenson
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The Goal
MABEL CONE BUSHNELL
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Henry Drayton, James Reid, W. O. Mendenhall, Paul Lindemann, Oliver W. Bell