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"Happiness is spiritual"
"Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love," writes Mary Baker Eddy in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 57). Truth and Love are ever present and all-powerful; therefore, that which is "born of Truth and Love" must be ever present and reflect the all-power of its creator. And since "happiness is spiritual" and ever present, where are misery, sorrow, and depression? If we are logical, we must admit that there is no room for such false states of consciousness in Truth and Love. They are erroneous beliefs of mortal mind, delusions that would ensnare us into accepting them as facts.
Personal sense is a will-o'-the-wisp; it beckons us on with alluring promises like these: "Just around the corner are joy and plenty. Come with me—a change of place and people will bring you peace of mind;" or, "If only somebody would leave you a fortune, what a good time you would have!" Or sometimes, "If you could just get over this sickness, or this problem in the home, how happy you would be!" Always the promise of happiness is for the future. False teaching goes so far as to make us believe that we have to wait for death to usher us into the harmony of heaven! Instead of listening to the seductive voice of mortal mind and following its misleadings, we should plant our feet on the firm ground of Truth and refuse to be beguiled!

December 31, 1938 issue
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True Progress
ETHEL M. MC CANDLESS
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Answered Prayer
STANLEY C. MORGAN
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"Give ye them to eat"
GERTRUDE SEELEY
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Beginning with Perfection
ORIEL R. BURNEY
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"Happiness is spiritual"
DOROTHY MOSELEY BARSON
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How Rich Am I?
IDELLE G. BERKSON
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Travel of Mind
ETHEL DANIELS HUBBARD
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Love Never Faileth
ANNA STANTON LAY
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On the front page of your paper recently there appear...
John M. Dean, Committee on Publication for the State of Tennessee,
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Although most wonderful cases of healing are continually...
Stanley Sheen, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,
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The Wilderness
ANNE H. BROGAN
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The Reward of Overcoming
Duncan Sinclair
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Resolutions
George Shaw Cook
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The Lectures
with contributions from William F. Shriver, Otto Bertschi, Daisie Gibbs Koss, John Lawrence Sinton, Hilda K. Lind
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I came to Christian Science not for the healing of physical...
Ethel Shaw Pratt
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With deepest gratitude to God I am impelled to give...
Emmy Schwarz-Sennhauser
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It has been said that Christian Science is a religion of...
Nancy E. Plaskett
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In 1910 Christian Science was brought into our home
Harriet Marjorie Hedrick with contributions from Everette J. Hedrick
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"God is Love."
Mary Dean
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If there ever was a man "born again" I am such a one
Kendall D. Stuart
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Twenty years ago I became interested in Christian Science...
Everett Kourian
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THE SUNSET HOUR
ELLA A. STONE
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from William Stanford, Orien W. Fifer, Canon Wilkinson