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Walking in High Places
The traveler today on an old Roman road, whether in Syria or in Britain, finds himself led along the upper levels. The highway winds about in this direction and in that, in order to maintain its original elevation. It refuses to descend into the swamps and ravines. Thus is good drainage ensured. Thereby is the stress of hill-climbing avoided, because to go down at any point makes toiling upward at another point necessary. The surrounding landscape lies open to view, with few hiding places for lurking foes more common in ancient times than now.
So with the sagacious individual on an excursion in thought. He starts out in high or spiritual altitudes, and remains there. He permits ideas of good report—healthful, normal, righteous knowing and thinking—to pour into his consciousness. In the light of such meditation, he begins to find that he is a man of strength, of courage, of resourcefulness, of character. He begins to see that truly there is no other self than spiritual man; and that the imitative mortal, his so-called baser self, is nonexistent.
But were he to gravitate, habitually, toward idle, worried, or unseemly thinking, he might be inveigled to the lower levels of belief in sickness, despair, or uselessness. Such conditions are in belief or in ignorance, not in actuality, and by intelligent insistence upon the fact of perfect God and perfect man, they are dissipated and the supposed sufferer is set free.
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December 14, 1940 issue
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Walking in High Places
PETER V. ROSS
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Scientific Prayer
MARGARET WILLIAMS
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Proving Our Inseparability from Good
MILTON SIMON
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Are We Watching?
CAROLINE FOSS GYGER
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Receiving and Utilizing Divine Ideas
FRANK HEDGES THOMPSON
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Expressing True Graciousness
JEANE L. BLILER
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On Choosing a Career in Christian Science
FLORENCE IRENE GUBBINS
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Reflection
DOROTHEA STURDIVANT FAGAN
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The world today is in travail
Dr. Frank F. Bunker, Committee on Publication for the District of Columbia,
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A Christian Science period in the "Columbia West Coast...
"Columbia West Coast Church of the Air" talk over Columbia Broadcasting System, by Dr. Randall S. Williams,
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"Send out thy light"
MAUDE WELLER SCOTT
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Vigilance
Evelyn F. Heywood
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"Through radical reliance"
Alfred Pittman
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The Lectures
with contributions from Winifred Lowe Minier, Mildred C. Bartling, Arthur Beamish, Helen Irene Harms, May A. M. Koch
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Almost thirty years ago Christian Science was presented...
Carrie J. Jackson
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Many times I have been comforted and strengthened by...
Frances Blakely
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I should like to express my gratitude for Christian Science....
Jeremiah R. Knight
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Before coming into Christian Science I often helped my...
Eugenie Weber with contributions from Eugene B. Weber
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I shall ever be grateful to God and to Mrs. Eddy for....
Karl R. Peters
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I feel it my duty to write a testimony to show my...
Laura A. Shook
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"I am the way"
SYDNEY KING RUSSELL
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from A Correspondent, Walter H. Gray, Gladys Rowley, Donald H. V. Hallock, James Reid