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Real Selfhood—Goodness
In "No and Yes" Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 26), "Man's real ego, or selfhood, is goodness." These words are worthy of profound study, for every student of Christian Science is daily endeavoring to demonstrate for himself and others this real or spiritual selfhood, which is goodness.
Christian Science reveals the truth about God and man. It enables us to realize that because God made man in His own image and likeness, and because God is infinite good, naturally the creation of God must be and always is good. As this truth is accepted, and thanks to God are given that we have only one selfhood, and that one includes all that is good, much freedom and joy are experienced.
With this right knowing each one of us can rise above the false suggestions of a so-called mortal selfhood, subject to sin, sickness, and death. We can retreat into the consciousness of our real selfhood, which is never in matter or the flesh, but is eternally in Mind. Here we have the privilege of following in the footsteps of Jesus, who could "find rest from unreal trials in the conscious reality and royalty of his being,—holding the mortal as unreal, and the divine as real" (ibid., p. 36).
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February 6, 1937 issue
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Armed with Love
MABEL SPICER GILL
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"A great calm"
STOCKTON VEAZEY
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True Forgiveness Heals
MARY SANDS LEE
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"Enough to know"
HENRY J. F. COE
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The Wine of Inspiration
IDA FLORENCE SAWYER
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Real Selfhood—Goodness
LOUIE ALLEN
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Supply—A Revelation
MADELINE T. FOOTE
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Keep On Shining
CLAIRE MOORE
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Child's Morning Song
LAURA GERAHTY
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In your recent issue appeared a letter which contained...
Miss Ethel Walters,
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From a letter dated 1907
MARY BAKER EDDY
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Speech That Is Kindly
Duncan Sinclair
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Power, not Pressure
George Shaw Cook
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The Lectures
with contributions from Ralph B. Scholfield, William Edgar Morgan, Kate E. Kempthorne
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With unceasing gratitude I give thanks to God for revealing...
Lorena Lincicome Reid
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Late in 1905 my wife and I came to a city on the north...
Ellsworth A. Noble
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The first time I had the Christian Science textbook,...
Marguerite Orth
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To acknowledge publicly the great debt I owe to our...
Mabel B. Saunders with contributions from David B. Saunders
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The autumn of 1927 found me mentally sick of academic...
A. Victor Swedberg
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In the words of the Psalmist I also say, "Many, O Lord...
Rhea W. Simpson with contributions from Annie L. Widdison
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"Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness,...
Effie M. Schrouder
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Reliance
GLADYS GARDEN
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Canon L. D. Gottschall, B. V. Pannabecker