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OUR OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE
In grateful praise for the courageous workers in the early church in Rome, Paul wrote (Rom. 16:24), "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all." Paul lists the names of faithful servants of the church, many of them women: Phebe, Priscilla, Tryphena, Tryphosa, Persis, and others. He salutes Epaenetus, the first convert in Asia, as well as Greeks and Romans. He mentions Andronicus, Amplias, Urbane, Apelles, Herodion, Rufus, and others.
These Christians were of different nations and backgrounds. Some were apparently men of wealth and influence; some were slaves. Yet all were in the service of the church. They worked together in gratitude for the healing presence of the Christ.
Today equally dedicated workers in Christian Science have the same opportunity to serve primitive Christianity. They are doing the same kind of healing work as those early Christians. They take a stand against the powers of worldly evil by the same steadfast reliance on God as that which marked the work of early Christians. With the same selfless courage and trust in the one Mind, omnipotent Love, they turn Truth's penetrating light into the dark recesses of ignorance and evil and see them disappear.
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June 14, 1958 issue
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"THIS IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE"
PAT PHILIP ADKINS
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APPRECIATION DESTROYS JEALOUSY
HAZEL HARPER BRANDNER
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OUR OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE
H. PHELPS GATES
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THE UNFOLDMENT OF GOOD
F. MILDRED RICKMAN
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THE SPIRITUAL SENSE OF LIFE
Godfrey D. C. John
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LISTENING TO GOD, OUR FATHER
VIOLETTE M. LEE
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"YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN"
Sarah Margaret Glasspoole
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LOVE SATISFIES
BETTY G. MELICHAR
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ON BEING COMFORTED
LEO JEAN GOLDSMITH
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THE TESTIMONY OF SPIRIT
Harold Molter
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MIND, THE SOURCE OF THOUGHTS
Helen Wood Bauman
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The testimonies of healing in our...
James Laurence Mahoney
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Life, Truth, and Love are the...
Elizabeth Dawson
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Each successive stage of experience...
Mary Taylor Wyeth
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I will praise thee, O Lord,...
Hilda Norris
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Christian Science has helped me...
Walter S. Greene
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I am very grateful for the ways...
Gladys M. Kuehl
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In Colossians we read (3:2),...
Hazel M. Groat
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It is with much gratitude and...
Cammie Morgan Dunning
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When I was eight years of age,...
Virginia Hebert Steiner
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Theodore Gaillard Lilley, C. Wendell Tolle