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Externals and Internals
There are certain areas of experience where changes have been so rapid that the members of different generations have lost contact with each other. To speak of the steam engine in the space age could make one appear to be out of touch with the younger generation, who have an altogether different frame of reference from their seniors and hence sometimes have a problem of communicating with them. But I would submit that such points of difference apply mainly to what might be called externals, not to other all-important phases of experience which for the sake of comparison we might call internals.
The internal phases, that is, the search for meaning, identity, purpose, the area of personal relations, these are not essentially different from what they have always been. External changes may have accentuated inner challenges, but the necessity for self-identification, self-respect, discipline, service, and fulfillment is timeless. One can readily imagine various Biblical characters as members of today's society in many of these internal areas of experience. The Sermon on the Mount can never be out of date.

February 3, 1968 issue
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Receptivity: The Open Door to Healing
HARRY DE LASAUX
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Responding to Right Ideas
BARBARA-JEAN STINSON
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God's Eternal Goodness
SHARON KATHLEEN REHMEYER
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Does God Really Exist?
JAMES C. THOMPSON
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IDENTITY
Carol Earle Chapin
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Looking in the Right Mirror
CHRISTINE McMICKING
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The Search for Happiness
MARGARITA B. HESMONDHALGH
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THE WRONG AND THE RIGHT
Max Dunaway
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Externals and Internals
William Milford Correll
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You Too Can Heal the Sick!
Alan A. Aylwin
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When I was introduced to Christian Science, I was suffering...
Anna C. Bourbon
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Christian Science was presented to my mother when I was just a...
Russell B. Westcott
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This testimony is written with the desire that it will help others...
Winifred G. Adams
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Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 199), "The devotion...
Diana Morlock Virgil
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Many years ago when I was a new student of Christian Science,...
Minnie C. Balgemann with contributions from Ewald A. Balgemann, Marian G. Lady
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from The Bishop of Woolwich, Theodore R. Van Dellen