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What about Our Groundwork?
To be well grounded in any subject is an assurance of efficiency. Right foundations must be regarded not only as important, but as indispensable. Unsuccessful work, of whatever nature, is generally the result of poor preparation. The groundwork has not been satisfactory. The flier knows that not only his achievement, but actually his safety and that of his aircraft, depends as much upon the conscientious, meticulous work of his ground crew as upon his skill as a pilot.
A superstructure may be attractive and temporarily successful, but if its foundations are faulty it will not endure. This applies no less to character than it does to human workmanship. Paul, with his unequivocableness, and above all his inner experience, put it bluntly when he wrote to the Corinthians, "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." This being so, it is well to study what is this foundation of which Paul spoke. Foremost we see that it is oneness with divine Principle. From thence there proceeds, with unerring consistency, complete reliance upon and obedience to the divine will. This, translated into human terms, is expressed in qualities of steadfastness, integrity, and allegiance to all that is true. The foundation that is spiritual alone endures; it does the will of God; but it is made manifest also in the humanity which heals and redeems, which brings comfort and peace to mankind.
The workman who makes Christianity his foundation will find that his superstructure corresponds thereto. And this is done even as Christ Jesus did it— through prayer. Every fresh work we undertake, every forward move in the unfolding order of God's purpose in us, must have but one foundation, if it is to endure, and that is revealed to us as the result of prayer or spiritual communion.
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April 29, 1944 issue
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The Cause and the Sunday School
FAY C. MOSES
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Rejoicing Always
JOHN H. HOAGLAND
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Living in Heaven Now
ELSIE J. PERRY
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Good Business
MARY RETTA TITUS
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Far Horizons
ETHEL WASGATT DENNIS
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God's Method of Reward
ROBERT D. WELLS
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A Lesson in Humility
LOIS GARLAND DAVIES
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Mary Magdalene
HELEN ROBERTSON WHITEHEAD
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Binding the Strong Man
Paul Stark Seeley
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What about Our Groundwork?
Evelyn F. Heywood
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Letters to the Press from Christian Science Committees on Publication
with contributions from Robert E. Key, William H. Owen
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Christian Science Committee on Publication for Kansas Reports
with contributions from Alfred Noyes
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I should like to say to those who...
Florence G. Stevenson
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Out of deep gratitude to God...
Daniel Claughan with contributions from Elizabeth Claughan
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Deep gratitude to God prompts...
Gertrude Leedy
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I wish to avail myself of the...
Marion S. McDowell with contributions from Lillian M. Stewart
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A deep sense of love and gratitude...
Mabelle G. Stephenson
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For a long time I have wanted...
Cathryne G. Moses
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"Blessed be God, even the...
Anna May Grayson
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To my wife's testimony of healing...
Harry P. Grayson
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As Far as You Can See
MILDRED NICKERSON HALL
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Grace Holbrook Blood, Archer Wallace, Paul E. Bishop