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WHAT ARE OUR MOTIVES?
Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, lays great stress on the value of right motives. So vital did she consider this subject that she has given us a By-Law in the Manual of The Mother Church entitled "A Rule for Motives and Acts" (Art. VIII, Sect. 1). A motive determines action. In her writings Mrs. Eddy makes clear how necessary it is to examine our motives and see if they are to prove in our daily experience the ever-presence of God's harmonious government, blessing each and all, or if they are to gain personal aggrandizement and mere human success.
In the well-known story of David and Goliath, which is given in the seventeenth chapter of I Samuel, diametrically opposite motives and their unmistakable results are vividly brought out. Goliath, arrogant and boastful, motivated by pride, personal power, and prestige, defied the armies of Israel and boasted his human ability to overcome anyone who might be sent against him.

August 27, 1949 issue
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WHAT ARE OUR MOTIVES?
MARJORY POULTER
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SEEING THE PERFECT MAN
GEORGE W. LEDBETTER
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THE SEED WITHIN ITSELF
MILDRED E. HYDE
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TRUE CONCEPTS
DENNEY W. BRANKLE
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TESTIMONY, AND A NOTE OF PRAISE
Aimee McKinnon
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WITNESSING TRULY
GLADYS P. DOMERATZKY
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"LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE"
ALFRED MARSHALL VAUGHN
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"I WILL NOT LET THEE GO"
MARY POWELL HOWE
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PROMISES
Louise S. Darcy
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THE WARFARE THAT IS GRAND
George Channing
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FULL COMPENSATION
Helen Wood Bauman
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How often I have wished it were...
Mary Harriet Kettering
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I am most grateful for Christian Science
Isabel Griffith
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Many years ago, when I was...
George White
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In the Christian Science textbook,...
Mary Louise Moffatt
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It is my desire to share with...
Arthur Kozlay with contributions from Grace Smith Kozlay
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When I was studying the Lesson-Sermon...
Emma J. Clark
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It is with great joy that I send...
Jennie Golden
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During the recent war we were...
Antonia J. Van Rijckevorsel with contributions from H. Evert A. van Rijckevorsel
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For all the healings that I have...
Elaine A. Waller
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Earl L. Douglass, Alan Walker, W. Kee Maxwell, H. V. Falor