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Step by Step
Rarely do we scale the heights with one leap. Reaching a high goal is usually a step-by-step climb requiring intelligence, patience, courage, and inspiration.
The ascent, viewed from beneath, may seem awesome, but really all we need to do is take it one step at a time. This attitude is particularly helpful to the advancing student of Christian Science. To him the ultimate, the most worthwhile, objective is spiritual perfection and the freedom it brings. But this may seem very far away. Even the nearer and more directly attainable goals of improved health, happiness, and supply sometimes appear illusive or out of reach.
But the student can begin, and his first and vital step in the right direction is to learn the nature of the good he is seeking and how to attain it. Christian Science teaches him that good is the primal quality of God, who is infinite spiritual substance and intelligence, never separate from man and the universe. Then, every time the Scientist gratefully realizes his present unity with divine good, and puts it into practice, he is advancing toward a higher spiritual consciousness. He is getting closer to meeting his immediate need of a healthy, harmonious humanhood. And he is also a step nearer the ultimate heights of perfect being.
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January 22, 1972 issue
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Healing the Heart
ARTHUR O. PAULSON
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Overcoming or Tolerating Difficulties
PAULINE B. RADER
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Relieving the Pressure of Time
ETHEL M. BARTON
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The Answer to Pornography
GRANT C. BUTLER
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Keeping Calm
GEORGIANA LIEDER LAHR
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SOUND SHELTER
Neil Millar
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Let's Not Brace Against Change
MARY RETTA TITUS
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Which College for You?
KENNETH CROOKS DAVIS
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TAKEOFF
Robert Howard Zeller
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Step by Step
Alan A. Aylwin
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Healing Through Spiritual Love
Naomi Price
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The revelation to Mary Baker Eddy of the Christ Science, which...
Jane Huelster Hanson with contributions from Walter A. Hanson, Fay D. Huelster
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This testimony is long overdue
Virginia Muir with contributions from E. G. Muir
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"And a little child shall lead them" is a statement from the Bible...
Joyce H. Bock with contributions from Richard R. Bock
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Unzip the Rabbit!
by Rosemary Cobham