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The Samaritan Quality
The man who above all others has understood and expressed God as Love could yet be moved to chide error when he saw it manifested in the life about him. Jesus' most withering rebukes were for the Pharisaical thought sometimes latent in human nature, the tendency of which is to pay heed to the letter rather than the spirit of the law, to value good words more than good works, to "strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel."
In our day, as in Jesus' time, this kind of thinking characterizes those individuals who "love the uppermost rooms at feasts," as St. Matthew records it, that is, who jealously strive to maintain or ruthlessly seek to achieve special privilege; those persons who obey the written law but who have omitted the "weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith;" such as "make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess."

September 2, 1944 issue
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Truth's Infinite Theme
HARRY E. DE LASAUX
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Love's Beam
EDNA HENDERSON STRAYER
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Man Is Never a Casualty
EUNICE H. DIZER
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The Samaritan Quality
NEIL MARTIN
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Taking Deeper Roots
MAUDE DAVIS
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The Lamb "without blemish"
MARGOT G. LETTS
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Sharing
VIRGINIA WORTHINGTON
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The Mother Church Wartime Fund
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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Our Unlimited Capacities
Paul Stark Seeley
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The Courage of Today
Margaret Morrison
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The press report from Ottawa...
John A. C. Fraser
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To the glory of God, and in...
Lenore M. McCracken
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I wish to convey my deep appreciation...
Blanche Walters with contributions from Tom F. Walters
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With a heart overflowing with...
Evelyn Poore
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With a deep sense of gratitude...
Alfred Raposa
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Little did I realize how great...
Marjorie E. Lanham
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For over twenty-four years I...
Bessie M. Machado
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Thou Nameless One to Jacob Friend
JEAN BROATCH
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Harold L. Lundquist, E. Paul Sylvester, Jim G. Lucas, Blair S. Latshaw, J. D. McCrae, J.Arthur West, Merrill R. Abbey, Dana McLean Greeley