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What We Possess
The desire to possess is inherent in the thought of humanity. The infant reaches out to take possession of anything that attracts it and to it possession means material holding. The adult comes to think of possession in more mental terms, terms of figures, of capital and balance, of power, authority, of prestige. To be effective in the eyes of his fellow men he knows that possession must be supported by material evidence; he must be, in fact, considered as a man of substance— material substance.
The writer of Ecclesiastes had felt all these things were necessary: "I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards," and so on. But this "me" which bought and built, collected and administered, looked for satisfaction, and did not find it. It found, instead, only vanity and vexation.
Centuries later, he who possessed all things, who had power in heaven and earth, was to declare that he had not even that whereon to lay his head. To Jesus, possession was spiritual knowing. He who thus possesses, has left behind forever vanity and vexation; he has entered into the heritage of Soul.
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September 4, 1943 issue
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Awake and Pray!
KIMMIS HARTLEY HENDRICK
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"To thine own self be true"
MARION SUSAN CAMPBELL
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Good Is Native to Man
ALINE POWERS FISHER
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At One with God and Unafraid
RUSSELL D. HUGHES
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Man's Dominion
RUTH EVELYN GROFFMAN
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Out of Darkness
ALAN W. THWAITES
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Do You Want God?
INFZ FIELD DAMON
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A Song
PEARL E. WEST
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Why Should I Not Smoke?
John Randall Dunn
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What We Possess
Evelyn F. Heywood
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Authorized Statement on Christian Science by Committee on Publication
William Reid Johnson
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Wait upon the Lord
HENRIETTA IRWIN HARRISON
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I have no words to express my...
Zona R. Shinkle
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This testimony of my first healing...
Leolynn Billhardt
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"Commit thy way unto the...
Anna Mahler
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When I began the study of...
Walter A. Leary
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It is with joy that I express sincere...
Elizabeth Perkins Boyd
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In "Science and Health with...
Neva P. Arnold
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Several years ago, while our...
Albert A. Fox with contributions from Winton Wiley Fox
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Compensation
AMY G. VIAU
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from William E. Gilroy, Kenneth W. Adams, Walton E. Cole