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SINGLENESS OF PURPOSE
Wise indeed is he who has come to have singleness of purpose, a purpose God-directed and God-sustained. Mary Baker Eddy indicates a high and holy purpose when she declares in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 45), "The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good." It follows that in carrying out a spiritual purpose, one can suffer no harm, either physically or morally.
Christ Jesus expressed the idea of singleness of purpose in these words (Matt. 6:22, 24): "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. ... No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other." It is good sense when we undertake a task, to do it with the whole heart. It is particularly necessary, since we have "enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death," to have no other prompting, no other expectation of reward, no other allegiance than that derived from or due to divine Mind, God.
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...
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from David Lawrence, Don Jarman, Jo-ann Price, Eugene Carr, Alan Walker