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HANDLING THE SERPENT
No word spoken by the Master expresses a more inspiring thought, or embraces a greater prophecy and privilege for men, than his familiar saying, "Ye shall know the truth." It speaks for humanity's highest innate capacity, for divinely provided opportunity, and for that supremest achievement, the gain of spiritual freedom, man's inherited estate and possession, dignity and happiness.
From the metaphsical point of view it is apparent that we can know nothing but the truth, since falsity cannot be a matter of knowledge but only of belief. To the Christian Scientist it has become equally clear that man does not need to know anything save the truth; that the so-called knowledge of evil is not essential to good or to any of its manifestations. The contrary belief in the necessity of evil in the best universe God could create, involves the contradiction that evil is a necessity to good; that error is not only the associate of Truth, but essential to our perception of Truth! Such an assumption brings chaos to Christian thought, not only because it denies the rule of the law that like begets like, but because it is opposed to the most emphatic teaching of Scripture that we are not to know evil, since it is "an abomination unto the Lord."

October 26, 1912 issue
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OVERCOMING
SUE HARPER MIMS.
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"READY TO EVERY GOOD WORK"
W. W. TOTHEROH, LL.D.
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"NOW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME"
M. ETHEL WHITCOMB.
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MENTAL VAGRANCY
LOUIS J. DU BOIS.
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"TEACH US TO PRAY"
KATHARINE T. PORTER.
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Under the heading of "The Medical Schools," in your...
Frederick Dixon
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In a recent issue there was published a communication...
Alfred Farlow
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At the close of his remarks on a recently published pamphlet...
William J. Bonnin in
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In a recent issue I find an anonymous article under the...
John L. Rendall
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Christian Science does not teach that "there is no pain or...
Jno. M. Dean in
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In a letter which appeared in a recent issue, the writer...
E. M. Ramsay in
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ONLY ONE STANDARD
Archibald Mclellan
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HANDLING THE SERPENT
John B. Willis
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"MARTYRS."
Annie M. Knott
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from A. W. Stephens, Henry Deutsch, George Halverson, Robert Coates, J. L. Mothershead, Thos. F. Hoyt
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Not long ago I was involved in a business transaction in...
Oliver A. Phelps
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For many years I was an invalid. My sufferings were...
Mdlle. C. J. Vilbert
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My purpose in sending in my testimony to the Sentinel is...
Minna Porter Roedel
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I have been receiving the blessings of Christian Science...
Amon Dorsey Cain
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CONSCIOUSNESS
GRACE A. BOUGHTON-LEIGH.
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
with contributions from A. R. E. Wyant