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Love's rule—"I am All"
When the saving grace and love of Christianity was a new message to the world, many of the letters to the young Church emphatically reminded the early Christians of the continuing need of moral and spiritual discipline in thought and action. Today, Christian Science reiterates that Christly healing requires both obedience in Truth and inspired commitment in Love.
Christian disciplining of the human mind implies being and doing good. It means placing limits on error and forcing thought to stretch for higher levels. It involves mental purification such as Christ Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount. The Master's discipline is a striving to gradually exchange human, material concepts for spiritual ideas from God that come through prayer.
The discipline to spiritualize thought is absolutely essential. Consider a baseball game. The slightest infraction of the rules sets up a howl from everyone. The participants and onlookers value those rules greatly, for without them there wouldn't be any game. Similarly, without the rules of life as found in the Bible, there would be little experience of the Life that is God.
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August 27, 1984 issue
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Love's rule—"I am All"
BAYARD C. AUCHINCLOSS
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Parenting, children, and God
WINDING COPLEY IVEY
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Honoring our parents
SARAH V. SILVERNAIL
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Feel the facts! Don't just read about them
THOMAS C. ASHER
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Responsibility—burden or joy?
EDNA MARY WATSON
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The greatness of calm
CAROLYN B. SWAN
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An expectancy of good—its importance in healing
WILLIAM E. MOODY
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You can be your own practitioner
Donna Virgil Holden
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Several years ago I was completing my Federal Aviation Administration...
CONSTANCE DIMOCK SEBALD with contributions from GRACE DIMOCK SMITH
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My husband and I were vacationing in Atlantic Canada last...
JEANNETTE ELOISE WEIR
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I wish to record my gratitude for a very beautiful healing
MARIE MITCHELL CLOHECY