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A Practical Lesson on Love
[From a teacher in a branch church Sunday School]
"What is Love?" This question startled a Sunday School class of ten and eleven-year-old pupils out of their complacency. It was my first Sunday with this class. The superintendent had explained that the pupils were of the opinion that they knew all about the "first lessons,"' which are defined in Article XX, Section 3, of the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy. She asked me to find out whether or not they actually understood and had grasped the simpler meanings of the divine Principle, Love, which they had been taught.
At the beginning of the class period I told the pupils that I had been informed that they thought they knew the "first lessons" thoroughly. I proceeded to conduct an oral examination to find out what they knew. First the question was asked, "What is God?" All of the pupils, one after another, fluently repeated both definitions as found in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, where we read first, on page 465, "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love," and secondly, on page 587, where we find this definition of Deity: "God. The great I am; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence."

October 20, 1956 issue
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SWEET REST
ELLA MAY FRAZER
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BASIC SECURITY
HORACE J. CARVER
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THE ULTIMATE OF SPEED
Elsie Benedict Angwin
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RIGHT REASONING
HELEN DALBY DOOLITTLE
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THE FORMATIONS OF SPIRIT
JEANNE STEELY LAITNER
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"NO RIDERS"
ALBERT F. ENGEL
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FRIENDSHIPS ALLEGIANCE
Edith M. Glastre
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PRACTICING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
IRENE C. BENNETT
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THE SECOND APPEARING
Frances Hamill Seese
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MAKING IMPORTANT DECISIONS
Harold Molter
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GOD THE ONLY SOURCE OF HEALTH
John J. Selover
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RADIO PROGRAM No. 161 - "My help cometh from the Lord"
Worthington Seese
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I have gained so much good...
Beulah R. Emery with contributions from Carleton M. Emery
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With a heart overflowing with...
Titus L. Thelin
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With God all things are possible...
Mamie L. Swonger
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God hath not given us the spirit...
Doris P. Roupell
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It is with a heart filled with gratitude...
Meta Krulish
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With a heart full of gratitude to...
Frank D. Auwarter
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In 1924 I attended my first...
Bertha Bickert
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Mary Baker Eddy, our beloved...
Aydel A. Shafer
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Our family came into Christian Science...
Annette. G. Ford
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Marcus Bach, C. A. Osborne, Robert James McCracken, Eugene Carr