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Preserving innocence in children
A garden filled with blooming bright colorful flowers can only thrive as it is gently nourished and protected. Each plant needs to be cared for and kept free from harmful insects and weeds. Providing such a fertile environment has rewarding results. Each flower blends in a symphony of color and design in its own unique form and wonderful purpose.
Like flowers, children need tender care and protection, too. They extend and enrich our character and sense of compassion. I’ve found that as we cherish their God-given purity and goodness, we maintain in ourselves the same qualities that renew our receptivity and innocence, not only for our own life but for the world as well. They help preserve love and God’s presence of healing power in our lives.
Mary Baker Eddy saw the need of maintaining childlike qualities as related in her book, Science and Health: “Children should be allowed to remain children in knowledge, and should become men and women only through growth in the understanding of man’s higher nature” (p. 62).
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September 19, 2011 issue
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Letters
Alistair Budd, Susan Burrows, Al Gemrich, Heather Frederick Brown, Jill Hood
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Working, healing prayer
Steve Graham, Managing Editor, Sentinel, Journal, and Heralds
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Strong sales for new Common English Bible
Diane Morrow
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Christianly scientific prayer
By Allison Phinney
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How does prayer work?
Kathleen Chicoine
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Prayers of petition and praise
By S. P. James
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Silence
Dardie Dunlap
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Preserving innocence in children
By Marilyn Wickstrom
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Lonely? Play by God’s rules
By Dorian Atkins
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Let Love write our life script
By Diana Davis Butler
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From the office of the Treasurer
Lyon Osborn
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Prayer on the apartment hunt
By Jodie Swales
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A testimony meeting — anywhere, anytime
By Alice Moseley
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Roman holiday
Wil Meacham
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The truth behind today’s news headlines
Tony Lobl
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A journey to the ‘holy city’
By Nancy Fischer
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Knee pain healed
Lauren Nofsinger
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Two significant healings
Susan Ozanne
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Christian Science heals quickly and wholly
Charles T. Maack
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Breaking the pull of contagion
The Editors