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Awake, O Dreamer!
"I sleep , but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me." These lovely words from the Song of Solomon may be taken as pointing to the awakening that Christ, Truth, brings to the dreamer in corporeal sense. As thought is startled from lethargy through the enlightment of Truth, one realizes the false and fleeting nature of the Adam-dream of life in matter, and makes a determined effort to awake from the dream. He may thus say with the poet, "I sleep; but my heart waketh."
Concerning the nightmare of war, hate, greed, chaos, and disaster which the world seems to be passing through today, one often hears the remark, "It all seems like a bad dream." The student of Christian Science agrees with this statement, but goes farther. He declares that the "bad dream" is unreal and untrue, because God never made it. From the standpoint of God's allness and matter's nothingness, the Christian Scientist proceeds to demonstrate the truth by "signs following." Perceiving humanity's need for an awakening from the dream of life in matter, Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 95): "Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. Material sense does not unfold the facts of existence; but spiritual sense lifts human consciousness into eternal Truth."
March 16, 1940 issue
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The Balance of Power
BLANCHE HERSEY HOGUE
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"A new commandment"
LINDEN E. JONES
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Right Determination
ELOISE PATTILLO HENDRICK
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Awake, O Dreamer!
RUTH EVELYN GROFFMAN
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Salvation
JANE GARAGHTY JENKINS
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Spiritual Habitation
JEANNETTE DURKEE KNIGHT
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"Playing the game"
EARL ALBERT RUSSELL
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A Christian Science period in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation "Devotional Program"...
"Devotional Period" talk over Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Network by Russell K. Odell,
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"He careth for you"
Duncan Sinclair
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"There is no disease"
George Shaw Cook
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The Lectures
with contributions from Clark C. Stockford, John R. C. Wright, Edith Coonley Howes
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Tenderness drew me to Christian Science twenty-six...
Margaret West Hill
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I have countless reasons for being grateful for Christian Science
Frank M. Milburn
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In Science and Health our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy...
Aleph E. Cartwright
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Great gratitude is mine for the opportunity of giving the...
Daisy E. Canute
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It is with deepest gratitude for Christian Science and...
Bessie Hartman
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Some twelve years ago I was despondent, weak, and ill
Clarice W. Wyett
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It is with a heart filled with gratitude that I give this...
Irene E. Sterling
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About three years ago I had an illness, which grew...
Elsie McCarthy
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In Article VIII, Section 24, of the Manual of The Mother Church...
Rowena E. Ausfahl
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I should like to relate an incident which happened some...
Duane Sewell Somervell
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Home at Last
RUBIE FORSYTH
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Jesse Randolph Kellems, Walter Lippmann, Edgar Lee Hewett, Stephen C. Clark, Jr., C. E. Macartney