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IMMUNITY FROM HARM
How can one make certain of the powerlessness of evil to harm him? The answer is, By keeping evil out of his own thought. While this answer needs to be understood scientifically and spiritually, it is at once unequivocal and deeply inspiring. It is unequivocal because it allows for no possibility of failure on the part of one who applies the rule. And it is inspiring because it makes clear the fact that no one is at the mercy anything outside himself, that is, of anything over which he cannot exercise control.
Authority for the method whereby one can prove himself immune to evil is amply supplied by Mary Baker Eddy, whose discovery of Christian Science constituted fulfillment of Christ Jesus' prophecy that the Comforter would come to men. For instance, in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," she assures her followers (p. 210), "Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of ever sort."
What are good thoughts? The word good, as Mrs. Eddy uses it, always has reference to that other form of the same word denoting the infinite divine source of all that is substantial, real, healthful, and immortal, that is, to God. God is the Mind which is perfect, aware of good, and completely devoid of awareness of anything that is not good. Hence the conceptions, or creations, of that Mind are perfect, or, to use another word, good. Being perfect, the Mind which is God is one and only, for perfection can have no real, that is, effective, opposition and remain perfection. This Mind being one and only there is no other Mind wherefrom man derives selfhood, or individualized consciousness. Hence man is constituted of good thoughts naturally normally, inevitably.
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March 25, 1950 issue
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GLORIFY GOD ON THE EARTH
BERTHA BROWN
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"WHERE SHALL THE GAZE REST . . .?"
WILLIS R. SMITH
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"LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED"
MEG ZAHND
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PROGRESS THROUGH THE MANUAL
NOËL I. MARPLES
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BEHOLD GOD'S GOOD CREATION
CONSTANCE S. SAMMIS
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I CONFER NOT WITH THE FLESH
OLIVE PEARL KILGOUR
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USHERING—A BLESSED PRIVILEGE
RALPH C. LEE
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BETTY MAKES A DISCOVERY
PERLE MARY HOPSON
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FATHER OF LIGHT
Jennie Band Schooley
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IMMUNITY FROM HARM
George Channing
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TRUE DISCRIMINATION
Helen Wood Bauman
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PRAYERFUL LISTENING
Amy G. Viau
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"Bless the Lord, O my soul: and...
Henning Pretorius Krogh
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For several years I suffered from...
Fannie Patton
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Alone at home, I awakened one...
Esther Perry Hornbaker
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When Christian Science was introduced...
Edith Alice Wilson
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I was an active member of an...
Clara L. Eacon
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Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, says in...
Margery G. Howe with contributions from Cyrii. S. Howe, Nanette G. Howe
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With this testimony I wish to express...
Bertha Below
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It is with a great deal of gratitude...
William H. Lewis
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This is a testimony to express my...
Mary K. Barker with contributions from Dorothy C. J. Rogers
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It is with a heart filled with...
Harriet Spencer Rochester
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from W.M. Askwith, Earl L. Douglass, Thomas M Wilson