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True Compulsion
One definition of "compulsion" is "an irresistible impulse to perform an irrational act." Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary; Immoral and criminal acts can probably be more frequently classified under this definition than as deliberate, premeditated control. One hears a great deal at present about emotional conflicts, especially in the minds of young people who are confused about values in today's world and who become victims of irrational, compulsive action.
Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth of the Harvard University Health Services, an expert on the subject, speaks of a "lack of impulse control" in many young people today, and he says, "More youngsters are giving vent to their feelings without thought of the consequence." He continues, "It's act now and think later."
Everyone acts under some kind of impulse control. Every thought, every act, begins somewhere. Does impulse start in the fragile brain of a mortal or in a higher Being, a governing Principle greater than the self? Christian Science insists and proves that there is but one real center of control, and it isn't a brain. It is God, divine Mind. And Mind is both intelligence and wisdom. No sultry mood, no malicious instinct, comes from the one real center of right control. When Mind's control is demonstrated—and any fact can be demonstrated—human action is independent of the wild, compulsive action of the carnal, or mortal, mind that seeks to control mankind.
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July 1, 1967 issue
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Humility—A Key to Independence
GRACE CHANNELL WASSON
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The Spiritual Touch
WILLIAM C. BREEN
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IN HIS PRESENCE
Beatrice Mary Billing
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The Way to Freedom
NATALIE G. FORCE
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Disease Is Absence, Not Presence
EDWARD LEWIS
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What of Family Relations?
ALICE E. BURHANS
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Teaching Children to Heal
ANNE STEARNS CONDON
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Debbie Proves God's Power
ELIZABETH GROB
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True Compulsion
Helen Wood Bauman
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Understanding Soul
William Milford Correll
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When Christian Science was first presented to me some forty years...
H. Merne Wilson with contributions from Richard Connell
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It is well over a quarter of a century since a testimony of mine...
Susan McCort Emery with contributions from Frieda Rudiger
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In 1962, I had a severe testing time
Metta May Asper
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One afternoon when our daughter was seven years old, a neighbor...
Florence E. Berg
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from John Bruere