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"A good assignment"
[Written Especially for Young People]
The work to which a newspaper reporter is detailed is known as an assignment. Should the reporter be pleased with the task, he is prone to call it "a good assignment." He then sets out to gather the news and to turn in a satisfactory and well-written report. If the work which falls to him seems to be dull and uninteresting, he may name it "a poor assignment." He should, however, go about each activity with vitality, zest, and vigor, in order that his work as a reporter may be improved.
How helpful it is to those engaged in any activity, be it in school or in business, to concern themselves with the true nature of their work, that of service to their fellow men! What is the assignment before us? Is the round of daily duties all that we have to consider? Is it merely the physical activity in which we engage? Or is it the joyous realization of spiritual achievement in everything we undertake?
Mary Baker Eddy, in a message to a branch church, gave this benediction (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 197): "God will bless the work of your hearts and hands." Our work, then, is blessed as we spiritualize our concept of activity and rise to higher tasks and holier work. Our real work is to reflect the Father, who bestows only good on His children.
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July 1, 1939 issue
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The Unreality of War
EMMA EASTON NEWMAN
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"A refuge from the storm"
WILLIAM KING RIDDLE
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The Grandeur of Humility
MARTHA C. DOHERTY
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Why Disarm?
RICHARD SCHRATZ
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The Light of Truth
THEODORA R. BENFIELD
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Action
BERTHA ZELL
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"A good assignment"
TERESE ROSE NAGEL
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The various statements and implications in a recent...
Albert E. Lombard, former Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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In Rogaland recently an article appeared containing a...
Nils A. T. Lerche, Committee on Publication for Norway,
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An article which appeared in the Telegraph recently,...
Capt. Theodore John Deans, Committee on Publication for County Antrim, Ireland,
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The Brotherhood of Man
Duncan Sinclair
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Neither "by affinity nor by infirmity"
Evelyn F. Heywood
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The Lectures
with contributions from Cornelia van der Laag, Samuel P. Nold, Mabel B. Hewett, Henry G. Kitts, Glenn H. Holloway, Victoria Clay Roland, Nina A. Clawson
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"Be ready always to give an answer to every man that...
Mabel Taylor Boynton
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In 1918, when I was learning to fly, I had an experience...
Ellwood M. Harris
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I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude for Christian Science...
Andrea Maria Nielsen
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I have received many blessings from the study of Christian Science
Martha Elizabeth Tull
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It has been my desire for some time to add my song of...
Bertha P. Winn
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It is a pleasure to testify to a few of the many healings...
Clifton H. Rudd
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The Place of Safety
BERTHA RIVERS-THOMPSON
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from William B. Bankhead, Herbert Hoover, Orien W. Fifer, David Lawrence, Ernest C. French, R. F. Duckworth, B. G. Jacobson