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GOOD CAUSE FOR CHEERFULNESS
"Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause." Thus does Mary Baker Eddy describe the Master in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 313). The spiritual cause is the cause of good only, not the cause of evil. Jesus understood the allness of God, good, and it was upon this basis that he did his work.
Contrary to popular belief. Jesus manifested great joy. Several times it is recorded that he told people to "be of good cheer," or, in our modern speech, to take courage. Jesus must have found the spiritual cause for cheerfulness, since it was no mere shallow optimism which he preached and practiced. His pronouncements were based in the solid depths of reality. He taught and proved by demonstration that man is the beloved offspring of the heavenly Father, infinite good, whose beneficence was showered upon all alike, even as the sunshine and the rain bless all impartially. He went about doing good and preaching the good news of the allness of God and the at-one-ment of God and man. His healing work, which was the outcome of his spiritual understanding of the true state of affairs, or the kingdom of heaven, was characterized by its peace-giving, enlivening, and encouraging effects.

January 12, 1952 issue
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THE FLORAL APOSTLES
LESLIE C. BELL
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GOOD CAUSE FOR CHEERFULNESS
SARAH SAVAGE
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TRUE PEACE
ARTHUR SELBY CLIPPINGER
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LIKE THE CAMOMILE
MYRTLE B. MC COSKER
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CONSCIOUSNESS OF PERFECTION
GODFREY SPERLING, JR.
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FIVE THOUSAND
Virginia Allan Grilley
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THE INFINITE DISTANCE
JOAN T. FOLLETT
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"STUDY TO SHEW THYSELF APPROVED"
MARGARET A. LARSON
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"HONESTY IS SPIRITUAL POWER"
ETHEL WILSON GREGG
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UNDERSTANDING LOVE
Mildred S. Ainsworth
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THE VALUE OF THE CHILD THOUGHT
Helen Wood Bauman
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DAILY COMMUNION
Robert Ellis Key
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FLIGHT
Henry Theodore Rowe
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MAINTENANCE
Edna Wise West
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For many years my life has been...
Ethel S. Mulholland
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Over twenty-seven years ago a...
Beatrice Oakley
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When my daughter was a junior...
Gwendolyn Jerrems with contributions from Jeanne Jerrems
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For many years Christian Science...
Eva I. Moorhouse
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"To those leaning on the sustaining...
Lucille W. Thompson
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Christian Science was first...
Alice Milligan
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I began attending a Christian Science...
Edmund C. Horman with contributions from Elizabeth Horman
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Inscribed upon the wall of the...
Geneva B. C. Kramb with contributions from Maxine K. Hubert
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For the daily unfoldment of good...
Bertha E. Clark
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The first line in the Christian Science...
Margaret Lucille Mueller with contributions from Michael John Mueller
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Ashley Booth, Truman, G. E. Whitten