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[Rev. William A. Elliott in The Biblical World]
No one will question that good has come from those early "battles of the creeds," but every student of church history can only lament that so much of the thought and time and energy of Christianity should have been expended in the warfare of words while the great world program of Jesus was lost sight of. It is my profound conviction that the policy of controversy has not carried us so far along in the work of kingdom extension as conquest would have done. We are better grounded in the faith, perhaps, but our going has been pitifully slow and pathetically indifferent. We are more orthodox but less invincible. We are sectarian in spirit and split in hopeless confusion, while otherwise we might have been united. The early churches had the faith and the religious experience and the passion for conquest and were divinely commissioned, and thus panoplied they went forth with mighty power and success; but they stopped to define, and their ecclesiastical definitions brought divisions. It is ever thus. We divide when we stop to define. Definition is important. Let us not decray it. But theological definition serves as a check to spiritual conquest.
[Rev. Joseph Fort Newton, D.Litt., in The Christian Commonwealth]
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May 19, 1917 issue
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Organization
JUDGE SEPTIMUS J. HANNA
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Fulfilment
MYRA EMMONS
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"All that I have is thine"
JOHN MURRAY BURRISS
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Gratitude
ANNA M. GRAFELMAN
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Greater Blessings
HORACE W. HEBBARD
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Obeying and Giving
SAMUEL JOHNSTONE MACDONALD
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Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth...
Henry Van Arsdale
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Our critic contends that because Christian Scientists have...
F. Elmo Robinson
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A communication from a critic states that from his point...
William G. Westle
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A local preacher asks in effect how Christian Scientists...
Robert S. Ross
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The account of creation depicted in the second and third...
W. D. Kilpatrick
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Christian Scientists are always pleased when the need of a...
W. Stuart Booth
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Good Omnipotent and Eternal
Archibald McLellan
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Filibustering
William D. McCrackan
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"An holy priesthood"
Annie M. Knott
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The Lectures
with contributions from Augusta M. Cole, E. G. Lorenzen, Elmer O. Fippin, Arthur F. Thomas, Walter C. Lanyon, Charles Horncastle, E. A. Patrick
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That "man's extremity is God's opportunity" was proven...
Lillian H. Tutt
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On both sides of my family tubercular disease was said to...
Carrie Lee Poole with contributions from Thomas B. Poole
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It is a pleasure to tell of the blessings which have come to...
Gertrude Owen with contributions from Mary J. Pegorek
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It was in August, 1909, that I first heard of Christian Science
Elizabeth Kate Baker with contributions from Elizabeth Baker
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This testimony is given with the hope that it will brighten...
Josef Le Maire with contributions from Frida Le Maire
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It is because I have many times been benefited physically...
Kate B. Hanlin
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Christian Science was brought to my notice when I was...
Annie M. Holloway
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About five years ago I suffered severely for over seven...
Adolph E. Asher
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with contributions from William A. Elliott, Joseph Fort Newton, Herbert E. Benton, Emile S. Harper, E. Shillito