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Salvation at Midnight
The victorious Christ is always present, and its redemptive power is forever available to men. We can be faced with no insoluble human problem, because the light of the Christ is eternally revealing to us God's supremacy. As we turn to this light, accept it, and utilize it, we behold the spiritual fact that good is real and evil unreal; that health, purity, justice, and joy are as continuous as the constancy of the divine Love which gives us these good gifts.
Glorious experiences of liberation through spiritual enlightenment are recorded in the Bible, many of which came at the darkest hours, when evil appeared most active and powerful and the supremacy of good was being aggressively challenged by material sense testimony. One of Jesus' parables (Matt. 25:1–12) likens the kingdom of heaven to ten virgins who "took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bride-groom," the five wise virgins taking "oil in their vessels with their lamps." While awaiting his coming, the virgins all slept, and the lamps of the five unwise virgins went out.
Mary Baker Eddy defines "oil" in the Glossary in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 592), as "consecration; charity; gentleness; prayer; heavenly inspiration." As we reflect these God-given qualities, we gain the spiritual light which enables us to recognize the presence of God, Love, of fulfillment and fruition, and the midnight darkness begins to disappear in the glory of this light.
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May 17, 1947 issue
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I Can Give a Testimony
WILLIAM H. OTT
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Power of Right Thinking
JEANNE ROE PRICE
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Through Length of Days
MARY STONE WALLACE
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The Sure Reward of Persistence
PATRICK J. HAMBROOK
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Salvation at Midnight
LELA MAY AULTMAN
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Maintain Your Spiritual Consciousness
DOUGLAS ROBERTS
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Scientific Forgiveness
MARY H. OLIVER
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Spirit Satisfies; Liquor Does Not
GLADYS ELLA GIBBS
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To Obey Is to Honor
MARIAN HEYD HOLBROOK
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Liberation
JAMES MONTEITH ERSKINE
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The Scientific Fact
Margaret Morrison
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Discovery Through Devotion
Paul Stark Seeley
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It is with a heart deeply aware...
Clarice Garrett
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"No good thing will he [God]...
Wesley R. Mason, Jr.
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A copy of the Christian Science Sentinel...
Rida Marshall Reager
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The statement, "Man's extremity...
Myrtle M. Hammond
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Christian Science is the greatest...
John Douglas Greig
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For some time I have been wanting...
Bessie W. Clear
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It is now nineteen years since I...
Maria J. Floris
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from C. W. Nimitz, L. S. Shutter, Eleanor B. Allen, Robert B. Day, J. Edgar Hoover, George S. Benson