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"Those things which cannot be shaken"
Many, today, are finding themselves disturbed and apprehensive over apparently disintegrating social tendencies, iconoclastic attacks upon time-honored institutions, and calumnious treatment of revered personages of the past and present. They are encountering widespread discontent and distrust, even such whisperings in their own hearts, and are fearful lest all culture, our civilization, even Christianity, be swept away.
To these anxious ones, the explanation of such mental and physical upheavals given by the writer of Hebrews should bring enlightenment as well as reassurance. The shaking of earth and of heaven by the utterances of the voice of Truth, he declared, "signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain." Consonant with these words is the statement of Mary Baker Eddy in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 267), "Every object in material thought will be destroyed, but the spiritual idea, whose substance is in Mind, is eternal."
Happily for humanity, throughout history there have been teachers and prophets who, perceiving "through present wrong, th' eternal right," have instructed, cheered, comforted, and strengthened their less discerning fellows. Scriptural writers emphasize the permanence of things spiritual in figurative reference to everlasting hills, a city having foundations, substance that is enduring, an inheritance that does not fade away, the support of everlasting arms, peaceful and sure dwellings, an abode eternal in the heavens; and God is spoken of as a fortress, a rock, a high tower. Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Christian Science revealed to her that actuality and security are, indeed, spiritual. On page 57 of "Unity of Good" she states succinctly, "Man's refuge is in spirituality, 'under the shadow of the Almighty.'"
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December 11, 1937 issue
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"Those things which cannot be shaken"
MABEL SPICER GILL
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Balancing Accounts
EARL ALBERT RUSSELL
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Giving and Receiving, alias Sowing and Reaping
KATHLEEN F. H. THOMPSON
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"I never knew you"
MARJORIE LIGERTWOOD
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Home
LARUE M. HODGES
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Precious Moments
JAKOB MATTENBERGER
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No Barnacles!
ELOISE L. PATTILLO
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Readers of the Bible are aware that certain promises...
Lieut.-Col. Robert E. Key, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
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The comment of a syndicated article is appreciated...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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The station announcer said: Good afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen...
"Church of the Air" talk over Columbia Broadcasting System by Arthur A. Kelkenney,
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Moral Courage—a Great Necessity
Duncan Sinclair
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The Rule of Perfection
Violet Ker Seymer
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From the Directors
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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The Lectures
with contributions from Belle K. Butterfield, Joseph A. Craig, Elizabeth B. Iversen, Viola Naylor Vadnais, William Shireff Findley, Lester F. Kramer, Ruth J. Hall
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I am deeply grateful for all the blessings the study of...
Theodore H. Cooper
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With sincere gratitude for the many blessings received...
Georgia Neville
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For over forty years Christian Science has been the...
Hettie L. Anderson with contributions from Amy F. Elkins
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My gratitude for Christian Science is unbounded
Dora H. M. McCubbin
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For many years I have felt that I should attempt an...
Dorothy Nash Symon
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Be Still
GRACE A. WARNER
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from T. M. Watt, Glenn Randall Phillips, Peter Hamilton, James Brougher, John A. Fraser, Albert A. Chambers