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Man's Infinite Capacity
Hoping to gain a lesson from circumstances which had for some time disturbed her usual quiet hours of study, a student of Christian Science stood at the window looking down upon a mass of building materials which were being used in the erection of a schoolhouse near her home. Her attention was arrested by a group of workmen who were replacing a small concrete mixer, which had been in use for several weeks, with a much larger one. It was apparent that there was no lack of material. What was needed was a machine with larger capacity to utilize it.
Applying this lesson, the student saw that since infinite good is always at hand, the need is to enlarge our capacity to utilize it. With gratitude her thought turned to Mrs. Eddy's statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 258), "The human capacities are enlarged and perfected in proportion as humanity gains the true conception of man and God." Our human capacities are enlarged, then, in proportion to our correct understanding of God and man because this understanding reveals God as the only cause and creator, and man as His image and likeness.
The real man, the idea of God, reflects or expresses God. Did not Jesus illustrate this fact in the parable wherein the father says, "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine"? What, then, can blind us to our God-given capacity to appropriate and utilize the ever-present abundance of all good? What, indeed, but the lying, limiting illusion that man and the universe are material!
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August 7, 1937 issue
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Patience Rightly Understood
WILLIAM MACNAGHTEN MACDONALD
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"Happy are ye if ye do them"
DELLA M. WHITNEY
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Eliminating Condemnation
TERESE ROSE NAGEL
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Man's Infinite Capacity
MARY LOUISE NOBLE
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"A friend loveth at all times"
IVAN KOHNFELDER
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God Ever Present
MINNIE SUCKOW
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"Be fruitful, and multiply"
ARTHUR ROY BEDIENT
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Beginning the Day Aright
AILEEN E. SETELE
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Praise
MARION ALICE BOWERS
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I am confident that you will welcome a statement regarding...
Herold Molter, Committee on Publication for the State of Illinois,
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I notice that your correspondent, in your issue of July...
Miss Alice E. Rose, Committee on Publication for Susses, England,
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My attention has been drawn to a reference to Christian Science...
George West, Committee on Publication for Federated Malay States,
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Arise
VERA CONSTANCE HOWARD
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Healing and Joyousness
Duncan Sinclair
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Hasten!
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Charles E. Stocks, Hanny Moecklin-Pohl, Jane Stemm, Christian Hofmann, Marion H. Beckett, Ada Roach, Elsie V. Laverick, Charles L. Chandler, Jean Daggett Paul
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Christian Science has brought so many blessings into my...
Stella Maybell Bugbee
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As a result of a wonderful instantaneous healing in our...
Francis Henry Beardshaw with contributions from Dorothy Beardshaw
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At the time Christian Science Hall was opened in...
Maud Messer Alvord
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Over forty-five years ago I heard of Christian Science,...
Minnie A. Whitman
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In October, 1934, a friend invited my husband and me...
Lula Kenner with contributions from William Kenner
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I wish to express my gratitude to God for Christian Science
William A. Blanch
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My gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for...
Agnes G. Loeschner
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There have been many proofs of God's loving guidance...
Margaret C. Rawlings
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Climbing
JEAN E. CARTH
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from W. R. Matthews, William T. Ellis, Muriel Lester, B. E. Watson