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Signs of the Times
"Love is of God"
The Rev. Professor Harold Roberts The Expository Times Edinburgh, Scotland
The ideal of love is binding on all Christians. There are no circumstances in which its authority is to be questioned or set aside.... Love ... is the deliberate resolve to seek God's purpose for our fellows in every situation. What that purpose is we know. It is that they and we should grow in the image of Christ.... Love bids us forgive not seven times, but seventy times seven. At no stage can we sit back and reflect that we have done all that love requires. Its demands increase according to the measure of our obedience. And it refuses to select its object on the basis of worthiness or mutual attraction. It makes the sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the just and the unjust....
But why should we love one another? What is the ground of our obligation? The answer is plain: Love is of God. It is the stuff of which life is made. It is God's own nature....
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December 14, 1946 issue
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What Heals
MORTON BRAINARD KEEGAN
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"If thou wilt be perfect"
DOROTHY EILEEN HEYWOOD-DOVE
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The Seal of Apostleship
J. HAMILTON LEWIS
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All Can Know the Truth
KATE D. GRANT POHL
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"Speak out, O soul!"
DAISY CYNTHIA WOOD
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The Eye of the Beholder
MARY PRIDE MC LAREN
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Friendship
WILLIAM MATTHEW COTTERILL
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Be Still
RUTH E. PUFFER
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Are We Companioning with Angels?
John Randall Dunn
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Good Is Never Less than All
Margaret Morrison
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Letters to the Press from Christian Science Committees on Publication
with contributions from J. Lingen Wood, Colin R. Eddison, George H. Tangeman
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Man's Income
ESTHER CHURCH
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With gratitude to God for His...
Alton N. Sweet
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I took up Christian Science because...
Hallie L. Evans
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It is over thirty years since I...
Clara A. Davis
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The testimonies appearing in...
Elsie Irene Cox
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I wish to express my sincere...
Virginia Morrill DeCamp
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I wish to express my gratitude...
Henry N. Roberts
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In grateful appreciation for the...
Alice Parham
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Christian Science came into my...
Joyce Burley Baxter
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I Know
MAYME DAHLEM
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Harold Roberts, James McGiffin, R. J. Renison, E. V. Best, Paul A. Adams