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"REFUSE THE EVIL, AND CHOOSE THE GOOD"
The first chapter of the book of Genesis concludes with the immortal words (1:31), "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." The Bible contains many comforting promises that good will take the place of evil in one's consciousness and experience if he will acknowledge God to be the source of all that is good and real.
A student of Christian Science had a most convincing proof of this. She had been suffering for some time from a persistent sense of disease. Christian Science treatment was applied, but there appeared to be no tangible result. She prayed diligently. She affirmed the great spiritual truths that God is All and God is good and denied the error. But still no healing took place. There came the temptation to be impatient, and self-pity clamored loudly for admission at the door of thought. To some extent these visitors were admitted, and the outlook seemed dark and dreary indeed.
Then one day she looked out of her window upon a beautiful sight. There stood a group of wild lilies in full bloom. Only a short time earlier a neighbor had burned a large pile of weeds at that place, and the student had been tempted to believe that nothing would ever again grow on that spot of fire-baked clay. Then the words of a familiar hymn came back to memory (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 384):
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October 25, 1952 issue
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THE ACTIVITY OF DIVINE PRINCIPLE
ANETTA G. SCHNEIDER
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GOD'S UNVARYING JUSTICE
PAUL R. CARMACK
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THE CUP
Evelyn Blackburn
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THE ALL-INCLUSIVENESS OF GOD
MILDRED BYRNE PETERSEN
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PROGRESS IS INFINITE
BARBARA BLECH DUNBAR
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"REFUSE THE EVIL, AND CHOOSE THE GOOD"
LEWIS PAUL ANDRESEN
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"THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD"
KATHRYN PAULSON
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WINDOWS OF HEAVEN
Pearl Strachan Hurd
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OBEDIENCE
Richard J. Davis
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LOVE'S OBJECT
Helen Wood Bauman
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LETTERS TO THE PRESS FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION
C. Leonard Hudson
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LIGHT
Hazel A. Blackwell
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FROM ANNUAL REPORTS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION
with contributions from Stephen J. Sametz, George H. Kitendaugh, Donald R. Lane, York Sampson
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It is with the deepest sense of...
Mabel Watkins Tenny
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Christian Science is indeed the...
Gertrud Hofstetter-Miescher
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It is now thirty years since I...
Malcolm R. Atkins with contributions from Elizabeth M. Atkins
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I should like to express my gratitude...
Rhoda Breslin
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I wish to express my deep gratitude...
Edith M. Fess
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"The Lord preserveth the simple:...
Winnifred A. Werner with contributions from Henry G. Werner
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I wish to express my deep gratitude...
Bernard Earl Noyes
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About three years ago I experienced...
Mallie McDonald Williams
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Ralph W. Sockman, G. H. Clark, Edward H. Pruden