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CONSTRUCTIVE COMBAT
Can active combat be constructive? The answer to this question is undoubtedly, "Yes!" The usual type of combat is against persons and consequently destructive. In Christian Science our active combat impersonalizes evil and deals with evil for what it is, namely, a negation. Christian Science divests evil of power, prestige, and presence, and demonstrates the allness, wholeness, and oneness of God, good. In "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy says (pp. 284, 285), "I am opposed to all personal attacks, and in favor of combating evil only, rather than person." This constructive form of combat, namely, the impersonalization of evil, is brought out many times in the Scriptures; for instance, in the experience of David as recorded in the Old Testament.
David was a man of war. Old Testament history indicates that he was a king who delivered Israel from some of its enemies. His mission was to be the forerunner of an era of great prosperity and peace, an era which occurred in the reign of his son and successor, Solomon.
Peace can only be established on a foundation of peaceful thinking. To engraft peace upon warlike thoughts is to increase the liability of war. If warlike elements are not eradicated, the reign of peace must be regarded as a distant event. How then could David, a man of war, be the precursor of peace?
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February 12, 1949 issue
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"NIGHTLESS RADIANCE"
BURNETTA D. CARROLL
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"THE IMPORTANT QUESTION"
WALTER BRENZIKOFER
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FREEDOM
Kathrine H. Williams
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FORGIVENESS OF ONESELF AND OTHERS
HARRIET PATCHIN BOTHAM
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PRINCIPLE AND DEMONSTRATION
HAROLD EDWARDS SUTTON
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"THE MICROSCOPE OF SPIRIT"
MARJORIE MAE CASWELL
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LET US BE ALERT PROSPECTORS
HENRY J. F. COE
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MAN AS HIS MAKER KNOWS HIM
MARY ELIZABETH DAVIS
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BUILDING ANEW
Lillian M. Carter
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GUIDANCE
George Channing
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CONSTRUCTIVE COMBAT
Robert Ellis Key
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Gratitude expressed for mental peace
Arthur L. Worthen
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Healing of asthma brings new understanding
Violet O. K. Roberts
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Severe burns disappear through radical reliance on Christian Science
Monrovia Motheral with contributions from Haskell Motheral
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Heart condition healed and grief overcome
Julia M. Carns
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Foot infection yields when truth is applied
Nelle D. Stanley with contributions from Blan Stanley, Dorothy Idalia Wright
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High fever destroyed when appeal is made to God for help
Joséphine Guégan
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Living quarters found; employment problem solved
Shirley Grapek Haight
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from T. T. Shields, E. F. K., George E. Berry