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Marjorie and the Dream
When I was very young, my mother used to read to me from an eight-volume series called Marjorie and the Dream by Katherine M. Yates.
My favorite in the series was titled On the Way There, recommended by Mary Baker Eddy (see Sentinel, August 27, 1904). It was a story about a somewhat willful little girl named Marjorie, and her contemptuous nightly companion, the Dream, an elf-like figure who sat on the footboard of her bed and taunted her when she was trying to go to sleep. Eventually the Dream agrees to take Marjorie to a nice place, but warns her it isn’t so nice on the way there.
As they begin their journey through the swamps and mud, she notices that there are other children going in the same direction, but they are bogged down by ugly little dwarfs who are clinging to them, biting and pinching them. These are Errors, she is told. And before very long, as she looks jealously at a little girl with long blond hair, Marjorie is bitten by one of the Errors as well—Envy.
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July 23, 2012 &
July 30, 2012
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Letters
Steven Price, Blanche Saul, Candace Gibson
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Rejoicing together
Kim Shippey, Senior Staff Editor
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Borderless community
Walter Rodgers
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How big is good?
Nancy Mullen
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A rising tide lifts all boats
Jeff Ward-Bailey
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My first interfaith experience
Bonnie Mitchinson
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Embracing communities worldwide
Kim Shippey, Senior Staff Editor
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Climate change: What I could do
Elizabeth Graser-Lindsey
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Delight in international giving
Peter Dry
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Praying for a school community
Suzanne Smedley
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The grizzly bear delusion
Glenn Williams
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Salvation
Brian Kissock
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Unlimited resources
Heather Howland Kany
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Planted in a new path
Dorothy H. Thomson
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Love's leading
Tad Blake-Weber
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Seeking the way
Linda Gridley Lane
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The answer
Barbara Whitewater
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Solutions
Charlotte Bushnell
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Marjorie and the Dream
Phyllis W. Zeno
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Focused thought
Richard Albins
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God made you perfect
Megan Meehan
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What are you going to be when you grow up?
Leide Lessa
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Sign me up!
Bob Minnocci
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I shared with my professor
Bruce Matouka
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Your questions about church
Answers offered by Tim Myers and Michelle Nanouche
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'A spiritual model of life'
William Otieno
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The 'more excellent way'
Christa Kreutz
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Finding our God-given freedom
Ann Edwards
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A healing standard
Mark Sappenfield
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A summer of 'radical acts'
Jeff Ward-Bailey
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Lots of Laughs
Madora Kibbe
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Protected during a fall
Norma P. Cooper with contributions from Elizabeth Gibbons
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Chest pains overcome
B. James Jokerst
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Spinal meningitis healed
Charles O'Gorman
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Spine fracture healed
Brooks Rakos
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What makes you who you are?
The Editors