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Joy and Gratitude
Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 265 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Who that has felt the loss of human peace has not gained stronger desires for spiritual joy? The aspiration after heavenly good comes even before we discover what belongs to wisdom and Love. The loss of earthly hopes and pleasures brightens the ascending path of many a heart. The pains of sense quickly inform us that the pleasures of sense are mortal and that joy is spiritual."
Joy and gratitude are spiritual qualities essential to growth in Christian Science. One cannot experience true joy without being grateful for the blessings bestowed upon man by his heavenly Father, and sincere gratitude finds expression in an abundance of joy. Joy and gratitude open the door of human consciousness to let in the sunlight of God's presence, which dispels the shadows of doubt, fear, and discord. Joy and gratitude appear as thought becomes receptive to the Christ, Truth, through which one apprehends his divine heritage of peace, perfection, confidence, and dominion.
In the parable of the talents we are told that the servants who utilized their talents not only increased them but gained dominion over "many things." They also experienced the joy which comes from right activity. From this parable we learn that faithful use of God's good and perfect gifts is equally required of all.
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February 20, 1943 issue
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How Are Soldiers and Their Parents Helped?
NELLIE B. MACE
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Practice Illustrates the Atonement
JOHN M. TUTT
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Individual Demonstration and Salvation
ALICE VANDER HIDEN DAMON
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Joy and Gratitude
GEORGE C. EWING
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God Helps in Examinations
NINA R. WHITNEY
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Protection
HAZEL HARPER BRANDNER
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An Introduction to Christian Science Practice
Peter V. Ross
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Why Do Protective Work?
Paul Stark Seeley
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Introductions to Lectures
with contributions from LeRoy William Kranert , Helena Clarke
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Radio Program
Manton Monroe Marble
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Each Dawn and Dusk
ADA NIELSEN FARRIS
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This testimony is given with my...
Frederick Lionel Lee
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Christian Science was introduced...
Bernice Canterbury
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Christian Science has given me...
Lillian E. Fritts
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When Christian Science was...
Grace Hope
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Through Christian Science, "the...
Stella Doyle Hailey
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When I was ten years old, my...
Sue Hailey Ruppert with contributions from M. O. Ruppert
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Christian Science has brought...
Myrtle D. Morrison
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I should like to give grateful...
Max Dunaway
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Be Still and Know
LINA PLUMER CLINGEN
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Daniel A. Poling, Helen Keller, John Baillie, John J. Bennett, Chester Rowell