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UPSIDE DOWN OR RIGHT SIDE UP?
A Number of years ago on some European fairgrounds you could have heard a crier, or barker, invite you to come into a room and take a ride upside down. The vehicle was a big, long, swinging seat which hung on a brass bar. The customers were strapped to this seat, which appeared to swing forth and back, gaining momentum until the occupants believed they were in an upside-down position. Shrieks and yells would emanate from the room. The truth, however, was that neither the swing nor its occupants had moved, even an inch. The walls had turned, giving the would-be riders the impression that they had been turned upside down.
In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, makes this statement (p. 301): "Delusion, sin, disease, and death arise from the false testimony of material sense, which, from a supposed standpoint outside the focal distance of infinite Spirit, presents an inverted image of Mind and substance with everything turned upside down."
In Genesis we read (1:31), "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." For centuries mankind has believed that everything was not good. The world has gone round and round from one misconception, from one upside-down illusion, to another. The experience of the people in the swing proved conclusively how absolutely misleading material sensation can be. Had they known the facts, they would have reversed the sensation of the senses, unstrapped themselves, and walked away.
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May 5, 1951 issue
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"THOSE DAYS SHALL BE SHORTENED"
PETER B. BIGGINS
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"THE JOY OF PATHS UNTROD"
MARGARET LEE RUNBECK
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UPSIDE DOWN OR RIGHT SIDE UP?
JENS OSVALD LAURITZEN
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TRUE FOLLOWING
LUIE HOPKINS BALL
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SECURITY
Hazel Harper Brandner
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INNER PEACE AS THE WORLD PROGRESSES
ROBERT DOLLING WELLS
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GOD'S WILL IS THE LAW OF LIFE
MYRTLE A. CASH
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SHEPHERDING OUR PROGRESS
WILLIAM GILBERT
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CLIMB!
William Aubert Luce
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CONCERNING THE CHRIST
Robert Ellis Key
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WHO SHALL BE GREATEST?
Helen Wood Bauman
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I am increasingly grateful to God...
Joan Marie Madsen
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One summer recently I caught...
Cecil Digby Burnham
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I have much to be grateful for...
Jeanette Wieand Grub
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My first contact with this liberating...
Elsie Holmes
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I did not take up the study of...
Cara Jane Miller
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At the height of a so-called critical...
Dorris K. Weyreter
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I have depended entirely on...
Helenruth D. Courtney with contributions from Barbara Courtney Driver
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I am grateful to have had a loving...
James C. Watson
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As a child I attended an orthodox...
Arma L. Cardey with contributions from Vernon Cardey
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About thirty-five years ago, as a...
Sara E. Allen
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from W. A. Cameron, G. M. Ottsen