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Man Inexhaustible
NEVER was the certainly of the inexhaustible nature of God's care and protection for His own more dramatically expressed than in the words of Jesus, uttered at the moment of what appeared to be his gravest peril, "Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?" How could anyone who understands the nature of God, the spiritual efficacy of prayer, think otherwise either for himself or for others? This was the dynamic teaching of the Master, that the power, the inspiration, the love he had to draw upon were not by measure; they were, because of their infinite source, inexhaustible.
The ordeal which Christ Jesus was about to endure, the torture, both physical and mental, to which he was to be subjected, had for his enemies one final purpose, humiliation, defeat for his message, and then the staging of his human destruction. But it could accomplish only one thing, could bear evidence only to one supreme fact, the inexhaustibility of Life and Love. "Goodness and benevolence never tire. They maintain themselves and others and never stop from exhaustion," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 165 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany."
There are times in the experience of men when severe and continuous demands may be made upon them; when the normal human way of living is ruthlessly violated; when, as did Jesus, they find themselves the victims of violence, of savagery, surrounded by those elements which make for disaster and destruction. At such times let them remember those "more than twelve legions of angels," forever at hand in response to earnest spiritual appeal; let them unite themselves even more resolutely than before with the goodness and benevolence which, because of their nature, are inexhaustible.
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November 9, 1940 issue
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Maintaining Superiority to Error
ALBERT M. CHENEY
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Man Has a Divine Origin
ELLEN CHORLTON
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Our Sacred Privilege
EARL E. SIMMS
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The Power of Scientific Speech
MABEL REED HYZER
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Changing the Evidence
AUDREY M. DAVIES
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Man, the Image of Mind
RUTH G. PRELL
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On Seeking Employment
KATHERINE TRIPP JENSEN
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What We Most Need
F. INA BURGESS
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In a recent issue of your paper a correspondent refers...
Miss Constance M. Frost, Committee on Publication for Queensland, Australia,
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A correspondent of your good paper, writing recently...
William Carson Blackburn, Committee on Publication for the State of North Carolina,
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In a recent issue containing a report of a lecture delivered...
W. George C. Blunn, Committee on Publication for the Federated Malay States,
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A Christian Science period in the Columbia "Church of the Air"...
T. Coolidge Fowler
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"The idols of civilization"
GEORGE SHAW COOK
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Man Inexhaustible
EVELYN F. HEYWOOD
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The Lectures
with contributions from Frances J. Fischman, Nannie Inez Brown, Edith P. Howard, Eleanor A. Tolman, Joseph Craigen
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From childhood I was troubled with swelling feet and...
Alice Bailey McClearey
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An interesting experience came to me some years ago, a...
CLARA M. SCHMITT
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Through experiences during the World War I lost all...
NORMAN E. MILLS
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Christian Science was presented to me by a music pupil....
KATHRYN TRAYNOR
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From early youth I was driven by a constant desire to...
EMILY H. SAMSON
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I feel impelled not to delay longer in adding to that of...
JUNE WUNDERLICH PRIEST
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Christian Science was brought to my attention several...
LEILA M. TAYLOR
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I should like to take this opportunity of expressing my...
DELBERT L. JORZ
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Love Pays the Debt
EMILY PATTERSON SPEAR
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Frank M. Selover, Rice, J. C. DeVries, Albert Butzer, J. L. Newland, A. W. Webster