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It is important to be sensitive to good alone. A pupil learns this as harmony displaces discord at school
ENTERTAINING ANGELS
Hospitality has an ancient and honorable tradition. It has been practiced since primitive man shared his first shelter with another. In Hebrews we read (13:1, 2): "Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."
Today's hostess looks forward to the entertainment of cherished guests as one of the joys of home making, and she willingly expends much time and thought in preparation for her invited guests. Now, although we may not all be in the position of inviting guests into a well-furnished home, every one of us constantly entertains transient or habitual thought guests. It is our privilege, we are taught in Christian Science, to welcome and entertain ideas which make us happier, holier, and more useful members of the human family.
To entertain, according to a dictionary, signifies "to keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; ... to harbor; cherish." It is in this sense that we seek to entertain angels, or as Mary Baker Eddy defines them in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 581), "God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality."
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March 19, 1949 issue
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TENDERNESS
BESSIE MAY TEOREY
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LOVE'S OWN NOW
Iris V. Zea
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RIGHT REASONING AND SPIRITUAL EXISTENCE
ALEXANDER N. REISSNER
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"THE BOW OF PROMISE"
MINNIE SUCKOW
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ENTERTAINING ANGELS
FAITH HOLMES HYERS
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"WHOM SHOULD I SERVE?"
CECIL HAYES
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE REVEALS MAN'S REAL IDENTITY
MEREDITH RUSSELL
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LEARNING HOW TO GET RID OF ERROR
JEANETTE F. SUTTON
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INDIVIDUALITY
Dorothy M. Kiddoo
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"SUPERNAL FRESHNESS"
Helen Wood Bauman
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OUR IMPERSONAL PASTOR AND THE LESSON-SERMON
Robert Ellis Key
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Heart trouble yields rapidly to the truth
Robert Davies
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Harmonious childbirth under difficult conditions
Mary Isabel Talbot
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Instantaneous healing through reading textbook
Harriet E. Kincaid
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Living quarters found during peak of shortage
Jacqueline May Sjoquist
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Car sickness, considered hereditary, healed by reading
Grace M. Sturhahn with contributions from George A. H. Sturhahn
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Protection received during service in two wars
Robert H. Place
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Sprained ankle yields instantaneously to Truth
Carrie W. Southworth Cronkhite
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Deep despondency lifts on first visit to church
Ethel Reed Menns
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Severe backache leaves; hay fever destroyed
Ada Coleman
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from J. McCleery, Lloyd C. Nichols, Gustaf Ankar, The Bishop of Southwell