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THE RACE AND THE PRIZE
Everyone throughout the civilized world is familiar with the Olympic games, which are open to all nations. The modern revival of the ancient Olympic games, instituted in 1896 in Athens, Greece, has continued with few exceptions at regular four-year intervals in various leading cities of the world. The games, consisting of many different types of athletic contests, include foot races ranging in distance from the one-hundred-meter dash to the forty-kilometer marathon. In the original games it was the custom to crown the winner of each race with a wreath of wild olive, symbol of victory.
Undoubtedly, the keen-minded Apostle Paul knew of the Olympic games and of the custom of crowning each victor with an olive wreath. In his first epistle to the church at Corinth, a city not far from Athens, he declared in words which are as forceful and meaningful today as when he wrote them (9:24-27): "Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by am means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway."

July 9, 1955 issue
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REWARDS FOR OVERCOMING
GRACE MC KEE BRIGGS
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THE RACE AND THE PRIZE
DELOS EDWARD JOHNSON
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"THY KINGDOM COME"
Ruby Nilson
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"THE MEDITATION OF MY HEART"
BESSIE SELLERS
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THE WAY
FREDERIC E. EARLE
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"BROOD O'ER US WITH THY SHELT'RING WING"
JOYCE H. SMITH
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THE HIGH GOAL
SCOTT D. SLOAN
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND THE COLLEGE STUDENT
LORETTA GOLDEN
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PRAYER FOR UNFOLDMENT
Ruth B. Scudder
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LIFE HAS A SACRED SIGNIFICANCE
Robert Ellis Key
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"NOT GUILTY"
Helen Wood Bauman
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RADIO PROGRAM No. 94 - A Healing of Excess Weight
with contributions from Grace Holt Mayo
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Delbert F. Mosher
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Ruby Robson
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Ida R. Oates
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Ruth Koebel
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William Catron Jones
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Helen J. Tripp
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Alberta Cundal
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I have received many blessings...
Grace H. Muse
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Frank S. Morley