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Keeping Our Light Aglow
The light of Spirit is eternally reflected by spiritual man, and this reflection, like its original, is limitless and invariable. But because of the seeming opacity of material sense, the light of our spiritual understanding must be carefully tended. Hence Mrs. Eddy's call to alertness in applying the lesson of the ten virgins in Jesus' parable, regarding which she writes in "Miscellaneous Writings" (pp. 341, 342), "We learn from this parable that neither the cares of this world nor the so-called pleasures or pains of material sense are adequate to plead for the neglect of spiritual light, that must be tended to keep aglow the flame of devotion whereby to enter into the joy of divine Science demonstrated."
How wisely our Leader puts her followers on guard against becoming absorbed in worldly cares, engrossed in the evidence of material sense, deceived by a mistaken sense of values! The fact that man is not material, but spiritual, must be ever before our thought, and our prime and continuous purpose must be to prove this fact in daily experience. Therefore if any problem looms particularly large or some illicit appeal of the senses seems especially difficult to resist, our need is not to slacken, but to redouble our vigilance in filling our consciousness with the oil of consecration to Truth and Love.
Inherent in every normal individual is a certain measure of love of good, a certain ability to respond to the attraction of good. And this love of good, infinitesimal though it may be at the outset of our study of Christian Science, is to be seen as the reflection of divine Love, and therefore subject to everlasting unfoldment. By nurturing this natural love of righteousness we associate ourselves with the demands of divine Principle and free ourselves from the counter demands of mortal mind which would hold its witnesses in the belief of pleasurable and painful material sensation.
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June 18, 1938 issue
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Truth Always the Remedy
ROSE L. KEMPTHORNE
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Honoring Our Creator
LONGLEY TAYLOR
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The Beauty of Quietness
BETTY SCHWARTZ
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"Expecting to receive"
FRANCES R. CORNER
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"The accuser of our brethren"
CONSTANCE A. DYER
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Follow Through!
WILLIAM MILFORD CORRELL
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"From twenty years old and upward"
AUDREY K. GROSER
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The Heavenly Home
ALICE JACQUELINE SHAW
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In the Saturday supplement to Stavanger Aftenblad appeared...
Nils A. T. Lerche, Committee on Publication for Norway,
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After Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Christian Science she...
Mrs. Maude I. Holdengarde, Committee on Publication for Rhodesia, Africa
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An article appearing in the Tribune recently may leave...
Ralph W. Keller, Committee on Publication for the State of North Dakota,
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The writer of a letter in your correspondence column...
S. Lecky, Acting Committee on Publication for Norfolk, England,
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Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication
with contributions from Thomas À Kempis
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Composure
Duncan Sinclair
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Keeping Our Light Aglow
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Lectures
with contributions from Josef Ritter, Mary E. Busch, Frank Walter Gale, Constance Woolard, Albert J. M. Waterfield
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Christian Science has been to me the "pearl of great...
Homer C. Weston
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Many years ago, after years of helpless invalidism, when...
Minnie K. Rogers
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Words can never express my deep feeling of gratitude to...
Signe Marie Engebretsen
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As a member of The Mother Church and a branch church...
Henry Charles Wissman
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Christian Science came to me at a time when I needed to...
Lucy Gwendoline Lamb
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I am very grateful for the Christian Science Hymnal....
Mercer Roche Watson
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With deep gratitude to Christian Science I testify to the...
Marie Thérèse Bernard Houchen with contributions from Bert Houchen
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I am very grateful for Christian Science
Emilie Toepfer
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With a deep sense of gratitude to God, to Christ Jesus,...
Jennie May Waits
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I have received so much good from testimonies since I...
Virginia Bingham Houk
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Humility
JEAN S. FREEDLANDER
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from J. L. Newland, Granville Mercer Williams, Ralph E. Knudsen, Archbishop of Canterbury, A Correspondent