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LIKE THE CAMOMILE
Christ Jesus' expression of gentleness was as characteristic of him as his power. Indeed, it might be said that it was his unsurpassed gentleness which made him great. Yet the world's concept of greatness is generally quite unlike the sweet humility and forgiveness expressed by the master Christian when he was unjustly maligned and slandered.
In our day Mary Baker Eddy, whose sole purpose was to help and benefit mankind, was also sometimes reviled and slandered. But she did not retaliate, hold resentment, or entertain hurt feelings. She did, however, say of slanderers (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 227), "Would that my pen or pity could raise these weak, pitifully poor objects from their choice of self-degradation to the nobler purposes and wider aims of a life made honest: a life in which the fresh flowers of feeling blossom, and, like the camomile, the more trampled upon, the sweeter the odor they send forth to benefit mankind."
Upon looking up the word camomile in a dictionary, the writer found that it was derived from a word meaning "earth apple" and that after its derivation was the notation. "See humble." Jesus said (Matt. 5:5), "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." The secret of his meekness was his understanding of his unity. or oneness, with God and his freedom from human will.
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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