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"I can"
Many years ago there was a little seven-year-old girl whose daddy told her to do something that she did not want to do. She said, "I can't." Her daddy looked down at her with love in his eyes, but a very sure look in his face, and said, "Your can't means won't, young lady; and we don't say won't to father."
Years later this little girl, grown up and with a little girl of her own, found herself in very deep waters of sickness. Her thought was turned to Christian Science. She was shown that she must recognize herself as God's child, created in His image and likeness. She must "arise and walk." She said, "O God, I can't!" And out of all those years came back to her memory the voice—so loving, yet so sure—saying, "Your can't means won't, young lady; and we don't say won't to father." Suddenly she realized that God was her Father, and that she dared not say "won't" to Him.
To say, instead, "I can," seemed impossible. On calling the practitioner who was helping her she was told to read the verse from Philippians, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." As she read and used these words, she gradually saw that she could have no fear when she knew and acknowledged that it was Christ which strengthened her, and that Christ, Truth, is ever present.
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September 24, 1938 issue
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Fruition
ELOISE L. PATTILLO
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The Christian Science Monitor
ALFRED EDWARDS
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"I shall not want"
MARGARET B. DANIELS
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The Need for Humility
ELISABETH GARTEN
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God's Kingdom of Spiritual Ideas
ALBERT C. MOON
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"I can"
MYRTLE A. WALLING
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Ready to Build
ALICE MARIE TODD
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Freedom to Act Rightly
ROBERT D. WELLS
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True Inheritance
MARGARET WINGFIELD
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A statement made at a meeting of Bromley Women Citizens' Association,...
Lieut.-Col. Robert E. Key,
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In your recent issue a writer makes an erroneous statement...
Major Henry J. F. Coe, Committee on Publication for Tasmania, Australia,
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Although the sermon report with the caption "Faith Healer of Today Criticized,"...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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I was interested in your leader which appeared in Tuesday's Evening Dispatch....
John Lingard, Committee on Publication for Midlothian, Scotland,
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In a Christian Science Reading Room
ALICE LAWRY GOULD
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Keeping Busy
Violet Ker Seymer
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The Awakening
George Shaw Cook
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From the Directors
The Christian Science Board Of Directors
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The Lectures
with contributions from Margaret Stokes Patton, John S. Sammons
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Gratitude for the many benefits received impels me to...
Isabell P. Strachan
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I am so grateful for Christian Science that I want to tell how...
Gertrude L. Harris
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As a grateful student of Christian Science, I wish to give...
Gertrude S. McMillan Burton with contributions from Albert Burton
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Gratitude for the protection afforded me through Christian Science...
Norma Odile Newsom
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In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...
Edward Ernest Kemnitz with contributions from Nina Marie Kemnitz
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Christian Science has so enriched my life that I feel I...
Mary Ellen Thorpe
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After I had groped for years in the darkness of the material...
Anne B. Terrell
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Beatitude
MARY HOYT LOVELAND
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Arthur W. McDavitt, Carl F. Zietlow, L. B. Ashby, Orien W. Fifer