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"THE EL DORADO OF CHRISTIANITY"
IT is safe to say that we all have our El Dorados, goals that we seek from the first moments when in childhood fancy we build castles in the air. Men ceaselessly pursue material power, wealth, and fame only to find that the attainment of such objectives does not bring lasting happiness or true peace of mind. Many have echoed the words of the Preacher (Eccl. 2:11), "Behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit and there was no profit under the sun."
Mary Baker Eddy was a seeker and finder of the true El Dorado. She writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 9): "Dost thou 'love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind'? This command includes much, even the surrender of all merely material sensation, affection, and worship. This is the El Dorado of Christianity." She then adds, "It involves the Science of Life, and recognizes only the divine control of Spirit, in which Soul is our master, and material sense and human will have no place."
In our continual quest for the El Dorado of lasting happiness, unbroken health, permanent peace, success, or abundance, are we really ready to give up "all merely material sensation, affection, and worship"? In order to apprehend God and to find our true selfhood as His immortal likeness, we need to be willing to drop every belief in matter's actuality and to accept the fact, which Christian Science teaches, that only Spirit is real. An understanding of this fact is prerequisite to spiritual growth and true attainment.
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October 10, 1959 issue
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WHAT SHOULD I DO FIRST?
PAUL H. EAMES
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"SERVE THE LORD WITH GLADNESS"
ARLENE SHULL MAHONE
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NOW ARE WE THE SONS OF GOD"
DONALD PEARCE
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OUR TRUE HOME
GLADYS ELLA GIBBS
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"NOT MY WILL, BUT THINE, BE DONE"
RUTH GAZZAM HAIGHT
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"THE EL DORADO OF CHRISTIANITY"
CHARLES GREEN
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GOD LOVES ME
Mary Weston-Webb
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THE STRANGER WITHIN THY GATES
Harold Molter
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EVERYONE IS IMPORTANT
Helen Wood Bauman
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RADIO PROGRAM No. 316 - Spiritual Awakening Brings Freedom
with contributions from Perry Crow
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BRANCH CHURCH PROGRESS
BY George Nay, of Boston, Massachusetts
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Four years ago kind friends made...
Hans Seeger
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My introduction to Christian Science...
Elizabeth Pratt Rice
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Because I was deeply religious...
Beatrice I. Gould
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It is with deep gratitude to God...
Alice Aston
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I shall be ever grateful to God...
Catherine M. Meinhard
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At one time I had an external...
Harold King
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My sister presented Christian Science...
Nellie F. Lehman
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When I was a child, the whole...
May Beck
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Beyond the frail premises of...
Joan Watson De Muth
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Charles L. Allen, James DeForest Murch