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Understanding
If they would live and go in and possess the land, Moses told the Israelites, then they must obey the commandments which he had given them. "Keep therefore and do them," he said, "for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people."
In commenting on this call not to obedience for its own sake, but because of its results in prosperity and in its example upon others, the well-known Biblical commentator and historian, Sir George Adam Smith, points out that this promise was actually fulfilled in the experience of the Israelites. They became famous among other nations because they were "a wise and understanding people." "The cause of a fame," he writes, "was not of course the wise details of the Law, nor even that the nation possessed and lived by it, in a way unparalleled by any other nation in Western Asia . . . but religious spirit of the Law, its unique monotheism." Thus the righteousness of the law, combined with their spiritual apprehension of it, made them to be recognized as a great people.

July 19, 1941 issue
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How Do We Love Enemies?
Nellie B. Mace
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Faith, Understanding, Love
Lyman S. Abbott
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The Dawn of a New World
VERONICA J. COSTACOPOL
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Not the Human, but the Divine Will
ORIEL R. BURNEY
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"Daily Prayer"
HELEN HIXON
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"As thou hast believed"
CARL L. NEWELL
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As God Sees Us
RUTH R. WESLER
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Listening
E. OLIVIA STACK
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In answer to a columnist in a recent issue of your paper,...
Frank C. Ayres, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,
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In a recent issue an article appeared under the heading...
Eduard Kreil-Maeder, Committee on Publication for German-speaking Switzerland,
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My letter in reply to "Liberal Christian's" criticism...
Lt.-Col. Robert E. Key, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
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An understanding of Spirit is the goal of every Christian,...
Floyd C. Shank, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
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Love in Action
George Shaw Cook
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Understanding
Evelyn F. Heywood
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The Lectures
with contributions from Eva M. West, Sophie Rothfeld, Kate Ellis, John C. Barnes, Harold Edward Millard, Frederic John Butcher, Addison K. Waters
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About two years ago I found myself standing in "the...
Walter R. Bullock
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With a heart full of gratitude to God and to Mary Baker Eddy...
Mamie L. Swonger
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We have received so much good since taking up the study...
Statira E. Crompton
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After twelve years of receiving the good which Christian Science...
Walter Taylor with contributions from Mary Elizabeth Taylor
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During a recent trying time, I felt that a higher sense of...
Muriel Francis with contributions from Harry W. Francis, Sidney R. Francis
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In deep gratitude I should like to tell of some of the...
Clara Seyffert Fryhofer
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Christian Science has been our only physician and help...
Doris L. Geary
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Prophecy
Ethel Wasgatt Dennis
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Albert L. Neibacher, Frances McKinnon Morton, J. L. Newland, M. Ray McKay, Henry Geerlings