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A Friend Is Not a Leaning Post
A friend is not a leaning post. Real friendships exist in an atmosphere imbued with unselfishness. In this atmosphere there is no possessiveness, no burdening. There is only a desire to support and bless others. Such unselfish friendships are consecrated to good and are the happy by-product of a desire to meet one's obligations to God.
Mrs. Eddy says: "Consecration to good does not lessen man's dependence on God, but heightens it. Neither does consecration diminish man's obligations to God, but shows the paramount necessity of meeting them." Science and Health, p. 262; In all things Christ Jesus met his obligations to God by placing the spiritual before the material. Consequently, for him the natural sequence in friendship included placing the divine before the human.

September 7, 1968 issue
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Applying Intelligence to Strife
PAULINE B. RADER
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Are We Reachable?
ALBERT HARRY BUEHMAN
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First Things First
JULIA ANN WALKER
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Humility Lets Us Listen
ELIZABETH B. EVERETT
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"THERE MET HIM TEN"
Margaret E. Singleton
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A Friend Is Not a Leaning Post
JEANNE COLETTE COLLESTER
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Breaking the Barriers of Old Age
KATHLEEN DUNN
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Lovely Thoughts
ROSEMARY COBHAM
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All-embracing Christianity
Helen Wood Bauman
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Living in the Allness of Love
Alan A. Aylwin
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My gratitude for Christian Science is very great...
Olof Carlsson with contributions from Gunborg Carlsson
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About 1906 my grandmother became interested in Christian Science...
D. Arnold Phillips with contributions from Sarah F. Phillips
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I owe my life and my well-being to Christian Science, for which...
Henrietta Perruchon
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Signs of the Times
Harold K. Johnson