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Ready for School
[Written Especially for Young People]
During the late summer weeks the alert young student of Christian Science is apt to do some good clear thinking with regard to the coming school year. He knows that right thinking will secure big returns; indeed, it may completely revolutionize his school experience. He knows that the thinking done must be correct and scientific. Mere wishful dreaming will not be productive of success. It is not based on Principle, hence can have no real backing, and when confronted with a concrete human challenge, its futility is discovered. One may be wishful of being a good diver, for instance, and in his imaginings may perform all sorts of gracefully executed feats; but when confronted with the actual demand to perform these feats from the diving board, he finds that the attainment of skill depends upon certain mental qualities, such as courage, poise, and perseverance, which must first be put into operation.
If this is true in sport, is it not equally true of school activities and of human relationships, which are so important in school life? If one would achieve success in any given field, certain spiritual qualities must be cultivated. It is of paramount importance that one should develop these qualities now, and not wait until he is confronted by some situation in school when failure to possess them may mean loss of opportunity and position. There are no vacations in the business of developing spiritual qualities. Is there a moment when we would desire to put courage, patience, honesty or love on the shelf?

December 2, 1939 issue
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What Shall We Exclude, What Include?
WILLIAM P. MC KENZIE
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"When Love is at the helm"
SARAH ELEANOR PAINE
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Our Duty to Our Leader
LAURA EDITH SUTHERLAND
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Peacemakers
MARGUERITE VON NEUFVILLE
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Today
D. MURIEL SAVARY
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Ready for School
ROBERT L. FISHER
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Adresseavisen recently contained an article about an...
Nils A. T. Lerche, Committee on Publication for Norway,
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A recent issue of the Leader carried the report of a...
Austin E. Page, Committee on Publication for the State of New Hampshire,
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An evangelist, writing in a recent issue, attempts to...
Lt.-Col. Robert E. Key, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
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True Safety
MAUDE DE VERSE NEWTON
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Protection against Aggressive Mental Suggestion
Duncan Sinclair
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"He maketh wars to cease"
George Shaw Cook
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The Lectures
with contributions from Emmy Walser, Adele Backus Fiske, William G. Bickell, Lydia S. Anderson, Maximino Caranters, Ivor Brewer, W. Bertic M. Ellwood, Grace H. Noble, Mary Golda Canaday
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It hardly seems possible for me to express in words my...
Hans A. E. Eiling
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I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science
Emma Gosmeyer
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In Science and Health (p. 234) Mrs. Eddy gives us these...
Annabel Kelley
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I wish to express my gratitude for the many blessings...
Mary Ann Binzer
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I have received so much help and encouragement from...
Phoebe Alice Hall
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When I turned to Christian Science for help, I "had suffered...
Bertha A. Stevens
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I wish to express my sincere gratitude to God for...
Blossom Dirst Glover
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The reading of the testimonies in our periodicals has...
Lilian May Lambert
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For over fifty years I had been troubled more or less with...
Arthur Grant Homes
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Demonstration
E. JEWEL ROBINSON
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from A. O. Kuck, J. C. DeVries, H. E. Coster, Jane Kerkhof, J. L. Newland, William T. Manning
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
with contributions from Hudson C. Burr