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DIVINE RECOGNITION
In the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. vii), "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings." A possible correlative to this statement is to be found in Proverbs (3:5, 6): "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."
To lean on "the sustaining infinite" is to incline our thought toward the realities of Spirit, to turn as naturally to God as a flower turns to the light. It means to rely not upon material evidence, but upon the presence, power, and evidence of Soul. It means the awareness of heaven, or harmony, as expressed in our everyday affairs.
Our present recognition of pure, friendly humanhood is a foretaste of heaven. Mrs. Eddy says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 100), "Pure humanity, friendship, home, the interchange of love, bring to earth a foretaste of heaven." Surely this foretaste of heaven is not too transcendental. We are not required to throw off the good we know humanly in order to attain a heaven aloof and mystical. We begin to enter heaven here and now, just where we are.
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June 11, 1949 issue
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GOD LOVES YOU
WALTER BRENZIKOFER
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LOVE EXPRESSED
Althea Brooks Hollenbeck
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IF YOU WOULD HEAR, LISTEN
JOYCE CHANDLER PARKS
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"ACT IN THE LIVING PRESENT"
MARY RETTA TITUS
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THE KINGDOM WITHIN
MICHAEL ST. JOHN O'CARROLL
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"THE SUNLIGHT OF TRUTH"
ELEANOR LAMBERT SEE
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LETTING THE FATHER LEAD US
ZULA HALL
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DOUBT DISSOLVED
Pearl Strachan Hurd
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RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT
Helen Wood Bauman
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DIVINE RECOGNITION
Robert Ellis Key
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THE COMFORTER
Harriette Meldrim Lake
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Medical nurse witnesses healing and accepts Science
Lena Graves Southern
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Attracted to Science through reading the Monitor
Vera D. Botting
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Carbuncle removed by mental surgery. Infection healed
Grace M. Betrix
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As understanding grows, impeding growths vanish
William H. Meldrum with contributions from Jeanette Meldrum
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Living quarters found, and suitable employment
Constance McKerrow with contributions from Alan H. McKerrow
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Grateful for tumor removed and more for hatred healed
(Mrs.) Molly Resner
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Cured of bronchitis, nervous indigestion. Grateful for protection
Edna Marie Stewart
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HEALING AT A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE
Bertha E. Decker
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Brewster Adams, Robert E. Speer, A. W. Fortune, William J. Groah, Robert A. Dickson