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A Standard Bearer
[Written Especially for Young People]
A Young Christian Scientist happened to be sitting alone one day in a recreation room in her college. She, Jane, was unseen by a group of girls entering the room, and was surprised to hear that they were speaking of her. Before Jane could make known her presence to them, she heard one of the group say: "She's a Christian Scientist, you know, and I remember when we were children, in grammar school, that she fell one day and hurt her knee quite badly, but she jumped right up and said, 'It doesn't hurt me!' I wonder if it didn't?"
At this point the group went on into another room, and the Christian Scientist sat alone, greatly amazed at what she had heard. She was astonished to think that her classmate had remembered so small an incident for several years, when she who had had the experience had forgotten it.
Jane thought to herself, If the world is watching Christian Scientists half as closely as that child watched me, it behooves me to be very, very careful in my actions. She could think of many times when she had not made use of the truths that she had learned in Sunday school as she should have done. And she felt a little chagrined to think of the times when she had been far from a model Christian Scientist. Somehow, she had never realized so clearly before that she, as a Christian Scientist, had a very sacred trust. She was a standard bearer of good thoughts; of good words and good works. It was for her, for every Scientist, to show the world what it means to be one. She thought of the verse in James (2:18) which reads, "Shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works."
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November 5, 1938 issue
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The True Substance of Happiness
ANNA E. HERZOG
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Instantaneous Healing
WILLIAM SAFFELLE RAWLINGS
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Absolute Good
KATE W. BUCK
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Choosing a Practitioner
RUTH C. EISEMAN
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True Law and Government
CECIL F. HERINGTON
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Dispelling Illusions
GWEN M. CASTLE
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Spiritual Unfoldment
ELSE W. SWINSON
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A Standard Bearer
MARY FRANCES MYERS
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Morning
ISLA PASCHAL RICHARDSON
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My attention has been drawn to the article on "Health...
Paymaster Capt. William H. Coomber, Committee on Publication for Bedfordshire, England,
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In the Erin Advocate of the 16th there appeared from...
James W. Fulton, Committee on Publication for Ontario, Canada,
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The author of your "More or Less Personal" column,...
Joseph G. Alden, former Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,
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Now!
WALTER BERRY
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"Science and peace"
Violet Ker Seymer
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"The counter fact"
George Shaw Cook
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The Lectures
with contributions from Corinne Davis Dunmore
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When I was about thirty years of age, the doctors said...
John Goss with contributions from Emily Smith
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Before knowing anything of Christian Science, I was...
Lillian F. Angerman
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It is with deep gratitude that I give my testimony of...
Esther Toscoz
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There are so many good things which God has done for...
Sara S. Lazenby
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I have great cause to praise and thank God for the many...
Fred Hershelman
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I am most grateful for the loving help and healing which...
May E. Morrish
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My gratitude for Christian Science increases as my study...
Marie E. Burgess with contributions from Luella Stultz
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Healing
MARION WELLS DAVIS
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from C. P. Roberts, H. T. Ewald, James Reid, Herbert H. Lehman, Basil Miller