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Align Yourself with God's Power
The Niagara River flows with tremendous force just before it goes over the Falls. Its rapids swirl between banks whose bushes are coated with ice in winter and beneath rainbows that form in its mist all summer. As children, my brothers and I often played along the banks, stepping right to the edge of the rapids or standing on the ledges directly beneath the Falls. Always the sense of overwhelming power affected me. It intrigued me that men had harnessed this power to supply light and energy to factories and homes hundreds of miles away. Sometimes when I plugged in a lamp at home, I would think, "I'm using the power of Niagara Falls!"
To me, the Falls has always stood as a symbol of the omnipotent power of Spirit. This power is infinite and unceasingly available. The Christ, or Truth, the divine, healing message to mankind, brings this power into human experience. Because the Christ is ever present, ever speaking to the human consciousness, what we need is to understand and utilize the Christ-power, to open our thinking to it. This is how Christ Jesus healed. He was so conscious of his spiritual identity as the reflection of God that he utilized the power of divine Principle in dispelling sickness and sin.
To bring into our experience the same healing power that Jesus used, we must spiritualize our thought—must experience spiritual rebirth. Mrs. Eddy says, "This spiritual birth opens to the enraptured understanding a much higher and holier conception of the supremacy of Spirit, and of man as His likeness, whereby man reflects the divine power to heal the sick." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 17;
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June 6, 1970 issue
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The Christ Controls Our Experience
MARVIN J. CHARWAT
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Align Yourself with God's Power
CORNELIA JOYCE HALEY
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You Are Married Now!
KAREN CORNELL WILSON
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Quality of Thought Is the Key
LARNED L. TUTTLE
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Uninterrupted Unfoldment of ideas
CAROL EARLE CHAPIN
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Recovery Is Spiritual Awakening
MARY BARNES
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Why Bother? It's Only a Ring!
CLARA HAGENLOCHER
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INFINITE LOVE
Margery Todahl Blokhine
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The Future of Science
Helen Wood Bauman
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Appreciation versus Depreciation
William Milford Correll
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At the time our oldest son reached school age we had to acknowledge...
Donna L. Lundman with contributions from Donald G. Lundman, Sr.
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I am deeply grateful to God for the revelation of Christian Science. . .
Edith Agnes Anderson
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I have been a student of Christian Science for over fifty years,...
Robert Jacob Adler
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Speaking of the gospel of Christ, the Apostle Paul writes in...
Evelyn T. Watson with contributions from Kenneth T. Watson
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RADIO PROGRAM NO. 426 - What You Can Do About Exploitation
with contributions from H. Dickinson Rathbun, Marni Politte
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Thomas J. Walker