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OUR HEAVENLY FATHER
Understanding man's son-ship with God is of primary importance if we are to demonstrate spirituality. It was evident by their petition to Christ Jesus (Luke 11:1), "Lord, teach us to pray," that the disciples felt the need for a better concept of man's relationship to God. In response to this humble request, the Way-shower gave them, and the world, what has become known as the Lord's Prayer. Jesus was the most loving man ever to walk the earth. Therefore it is reasonable to assume that this prayer was one he had proved for himself, implying or showing the manner in which he invoked divine aid in healing the sick and the sinning and in raising the dead. This prayer is indeed the correct way to appeal to God.
Let us consider only the first line of this healing supplication: "Our Father which art in heaven." What a magnanimous, all-encompassing sense of divine Love to direct all mankind to pray by acknowledging that man has a heavenly Father! Thereby the foundation is laid in human thought for the destruction of all limitation, evil sense, and the carnal mind. By implication these words reject and remove the belief in an earthly origin and rend asunder the so-called legitimate reasons for the existence of a self-created mortal mind.
The belief that the parent of man is a mortal is the source of inharmony. Job said (14:1), "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble;" while Jesus' teachings on this fundamental point are clear and definite (Matt. 23:9), "Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." Man is the blessed child of our heavenly Father.
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March 24, 1956 issue
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TAKE COURAGE!
MARIAN PITCHER CLARK
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WE CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST
MILDRED E. KENDALL
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OUR HEAVENLY FATHER
CHARLES BING MAYS
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DEMANDING A CHANGE OF EVIDENCE
ALICE DENTON
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"NOW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME"
Margery Todahl Blokhine
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DOING AWAY WITH WORRY
GEORGE RAYMOND GREGG
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MEEKNESS ENTHRONED
LUCILE NEWHOUSE
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THE ARCHITECT
Mary Lucretia Barker Franklin
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LEWIS AND THE "LIONS"
LULU M. STALKER
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TRUSTING GOD
Helen Wood Bauman
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WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?
Harold Molter
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RADIO PROGRAM No. 131 - Turning Defeat into Victory
Bessie Lee Miller
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Christian Science is indeed the...
Ann Louisa Jones
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For many years Christian Science...
Hal Newport
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Many times I have been encouraged...
Mabel Yorston
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I have been interested in Christian Science...
Doris May Gay
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I am grateful for the privilege of...
Janice K. Burton
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In appreciation of the good I...
Alta Thrailkill
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I first heard of Christian Science...
Dorothy Lilian Muir
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I feel that I should tell of the...
Leonard M. Riggs
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"Bring ye all the tithes into the...
Agnes M. Burress
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It gives me pleasure to express...
Jessie Doubleday Whitmire
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I am so grateful I found Christian Science
Laura Strunks
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Henry Geerlings, James A. Pike, Donald McMillan