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Signs of the Times
TOPIC: STRESSING SPIRITUAL VALUES
[From Life and Work, Edinburgh, Scotland]
When Zinzendorf (the leader of the Moravian Brotherhood in the eighteenth century) was still a schoolboy, he conceived the idea of founding a new religious order, to be called the Order of the Mustard Seed. Its members were not to retire to a monastery, but were to endeavor to live the Christian life among men in such a way as to extend Christ's kingdom by the quiet, continuous method of the mustard seed. The badge of the order was to be a gold ring, on the inner side of which were engraved St. Paul's words, "None of us liveth to himself." If the idea sounds priggish, we can save it from priggery by remembering that not any one group, but the whole Christian church (which means ourselves), ought to be the Order of the Mustard Seed.
In these days we are constantly being warned to beware of careless talk about the war, because we never know who may be listening. But Christians have a yet further responsibility: to beware of unchristian talk. It is so easy, under the fearful stress of war, to become unchristian in thought and feeling, and to begin to talk foolishly, bitterly, ungenerously; grumbling unnecessarily. . . .
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January 11, 1941 issue
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"Stop! Look! Listen!"
LEONARD TILLOTSON CARNEY
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Man Is the Image of Love
D. MURIEL SAVARY
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The Continuity of Good
E. HOWARD HOOPER
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"God's servants are minute men and women"
FLORENCE L. ANSTEY
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True Self-Government
JEAN ELIZABETH THOMPSON
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"In the name of the Lord"
RACHEL M. PRATT
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The Secret Place
ANNE H. BROGAN
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"Miscellaneous Writings" by Mary Baker Eddy Its Background and Purpose
ALBERT F. GILMORE
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Your interesting article on the subject of "Spiritual Healing"...
R. Ashley Vines, Committee on Publication for Victoria, Australia,
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The New York Herald-Tribune carried a dispatch from...
B. Palmer Lewis, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
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"Who is thine enemy?"*
DORIS ANNE PEEL
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Unfailing Resources
George Shaw Cook
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"The rule of Life"
Evelyn F. Heywood
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The Lectures
with contributions from Margaret Morrison, Mabel I. Davis, Christopher F. Emling
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My first healing in Christian Science was instantaneous...
Carrie S. Craig
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In my early years in the study of Christian Science I had...
Hannah M. Ihle
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Christian Science has done so much for my family and...
Elsie Helene Christensen
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I have had many proofs of the healing power of Christian Science,...
Josephine Killough Fitzgerald with contributions from Austin N. Fitzgerald
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Words could never express my gratitude for Christian Science
Urban Wilson Gazley
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The depth of love and gratitude felt by one who has...
Margaret Howes
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Often in the Wednesday evening testimony meetings one...
Lilian Lloyd Thayer with contributions from Francis C. Thayer
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Petition
HELEN KNAUS
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from James M. Maxon, Janet Beardsley, Thomas M. Palmer, P. H. B. Lyon, Governor Dickinson