December 8, 1956
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Christ Jesus
, through his obedience to the law of perfect Mind, expressed boundless intelligence.
In
human affairs men and women of good will think of purity as an essential quality of their lives; whilst those responsible for national and municipal government make sanative laws and regulations with the object of purifying and preventing the adulteration or pollution of food, air, and water.
When
Christ Jesus was asked to name the "great commandment in the law," he answered.
At
the happy season of giving, of expressing "good will toward men," it is perhaps easier than usual to be consistently joyous.
As I begin to see in Science perfectBeing, one All, encompassing each placeAnd filling space: the overbrooding Spirit,Impetus of earth and universeAnd man; and as I glimpse the mighty spanOf Mind's omnipotent unfolding, thenI pause, and trembling, wonder, "What am I?
In
Paul's first epistle to the Thessalonians, he pointed out to them those things which could truly be called "good.
How
grateful Christian Scientists should be for the Wednesday testimony meetings! The Lesson-Sermons found in the Christian Science Quarterly, which are the substance of the Sunday services in Churches of Christ, Scientist, fill our thoughts with truth and show us the divine pattern we must follow.
What
a depth of meaning lay in the words "loyal Christian Scientists" whenever they were used by Mary Baker Eddy in addressing her followers! Christian Scientists today appreciate the loyalty of the early students who labored assiduously that the seed of Truth might be sown in human consciousness.
For
as long as Douglas and his brother could remember, they had been taught that if they were thinking the right thoughts and doing the right thing at the right time, they would be safe.
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"Dear reader, right thinking, right feeling, and right acting—honesty, purity, unselfishness—in youth tend to success, intellectuality, and happiness in manhood," writes Mary Baker Eddy.
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Speaker: Have you ever wondered how to pray effectively?
When I was a little child, Christian Science healed my father, who was about to pass on with blood poisoning after leading physicians had abandoned all hope of his recovery.
I welcome the opportunity to give this written expression of gratitude for the many healings and other evidences of good my family and I have received through the study of Christian Science.
For the blessings which have come to me and to members of my family over a period of years through the study and application of the practical truths of Christian Science, I wish to express my sincere gratitude to God, the Giver of all good.
I am grateful for having learned through the study of Christian Science that all one's problems can be met within one's own thinking and that the solution to these problems can be found in the study of our textbooks, the Bible and Science and Health by Mrs.
With sincere gratitude for Christian Science I desire to add my testimony to the many which tell of the healing power of this religion.
My first knowledge of Christian Science came when my brother was fifteen years old.
I should like to tell of a healing for which I am most deeply grateful because it liberated me from the fear of a hereditary condition which had haunted me for many years.
I am grateful to my mother for having introduced our family to Christian Science before the turn of the century.
At Wednesday testimony meetings in Churches of Christ, Scientist, I have many times expressed my gratitude for a lifetime of benefits from the study and application of Christian Science.
"I feel
assured I should write from the mere yearning and fondness I have for the Beautiful even if my night's labours should be burnt every morning, and no eye ever shine upon them.
