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RETIREMENT
Two people may use the word "retirement" to describe widely differing concepts. Before we accept retirement as a goal, we would do well to scrutinize our understanding of what the word implies. The false sense of retirement presents a withdrawal from activity, a permanent leisure. Idleness is mistakenly pictured as paradise.
Unless the student of Christian Science is alert to the spiritual interpretation of words, he may be taken in and deceived by widespread mistaken concepts of happiness. Because man is the image and likeness of God, he expresses the continuous, joyous activity of divine Mind. God's man is conscious of unfoldment and progress. And progress is a spiritual law, which we cannot ignore. There is no recession for Mind and its ideas. Mary Baker Eddy says of spiritual progress in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 265), "This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man's absorption into Deity and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace."

December 15, 1956 issue
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"WHERE ART THOU?"
GORDON V. COMER
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PERFECT VISION DIVINELY AUTHORIZED
MARION J. KRECIK
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SINGLENESS OF PURPOSE
W. BURTON WEBSTER
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OUR PART
Elizabeth Rogers
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
CLARA L. CARR
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"LIKE SNOWFLAKES"
MARCELLE DELVAUX
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CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS
FLORENCE IRENE GUBBINS
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SYMPHONY
Mae Tucker
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RETIREMENT
FRANCES B. EDMONDSON
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"WHAT THE UNDERSTANDING OF GOD BRINGS TO MAN"
JACK A. KRIEGER
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A SIMPLE TRUTH
Elsie Babcock Pearce
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"NOT ONE FAILETH"
Harold Molter
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DEALING WITH INSUBORDINATION
Helen Wood Bauman
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I am grateful to have the privilege...
Nesta L. Whyte
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It is with the prayer that others...
O. Alvin Hagen
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My first introduction to Christian Science...
Jessie H. Case
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I wish to express my gratitude for...
Caroline Walker
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I shall be ever grateful to God,...
Richard Dart
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Christian Science was introduced...
Gladys L. Spenla
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I have many reasons to be grateful...
Virginia Ernest Whittington
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One of the questions asked in...
Harold D. Shafer
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That an understanding of the...
Joan Franklin Smutny
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from David Lawrence, Don Jarman, Jo-ann Price, Eugene Carr, Alan Walker