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Unfailing vitality
We make a mistake when we believe we live in a material structure called a mortal body and that we are subject to its variation and deterioration. This theory is contrary to God's law as lived and taught by Christ Jesus. His mighty acts were always accomplished by his unequivocal dependence on God's invariable and eternal law. He told those who denied his authority, "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." John 5:30; Our reliance upon God is first and always the absolute necessity, an indispensable requirement in mastering debility, sin, illness.
Feelings of old age and weakness may dispute the fact that life is everlasting. Yet more than once Christ Jesus insisted that eternality is the reality of man's being. Mortal life with its vulnerability can seem confusing. We must be on guard against the false suggestions of evil. Paul warns, "Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." Eph. 6:11; Anyone who hopes to master the claims of the material senses must be firm in depending on God, not matter, for life and health. Mortal mind's vagaries might make us believe that the body governs us, but the body as matter has no intelligence or power to do anything.

July 14, 1980 issue
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Drought is not beyond our control
CAROLYN B. SWAN
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The nature of spiritual healing
MARK SWINNEY
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Dealing with premonitions through intuition
LORIS KINGCOTT
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Love dissolves hate
MARY LLOYD MILLS
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Soul-shine
JEAN M. LANGERMAN
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Did someone mention God?
DEBORAH ROSE
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Announcement
THOMAS O. POYSER
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Unfailing vitality
EARL E. HARRIS
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The nothingness of "bothness"
RICHARD L. GERSON
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More Spirit, less matter
GEOFFREY J. BARRATT
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Spiritual ideas heal
BEULAH M. ROEGGE
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Spiritual medicine: we don't drink it, we think it
Mary McWilliams Johnson
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In Christian Science, health and harmony are...
FRIEDRICH ROSELIUS
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With pride and care my husband and I planned and built a...
CATHERINE HOLT JOHNSON
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My first testimony appeared in the April 1962 issue of The Christian Science Journal
FLORENCE U. REYNOLDS
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About three o'clock one morning my mother phoned me in a...
GRACE MURIEL BROUGHTON