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Signs of the Times
[Edward S. Martin in Editor's Easy Chair, Harper's Magazine]
What the colleges need is what all the world needs, and that is religion. And what is religion? It is that which connects the visible with the invisible life. The colleges need it not merely in chapel and morning prayers, not merely in the Y. M. C. A. and the pious societies; they need it as the world does, in everything that goes on.... Thrift is good, foresight is good, even quantity production is good and very necessary in this over-populated world. Money is good, and wealth is good, but they are all goods of a secondary quality. The world may have all of them and go distraught. Germany did have all of them, but it lost religion. Its idea of life was incomplete.
... It [life] will be free. It will progress, and true religion is an immensely progressive factor. It breaks laws of men when they need breaking; it demolishes tradition when tradition is outworn, and always it searches for knowledge—for more knowledge of the purpose of the invisible God in this visible earth, and of the laws to which human life is geared, and what that life is all about, and what comes next.... They [the colleges] are criticized for being utilitarian.... They teach what they know and are willing to teach something better if somebody will tell them what it is. But what they teach for the most part is all right—the fault about it is that it looks like the whole of knowledge when it
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April 22, 1922 issue
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The Test
GEORGE H. MOORE
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Unfoldment
JULIA WARNER MICHAEL JOHNSTON
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Peace and the Blessedness of Peacemaking
JOSEPH G. MANN
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True Service
KATHERINE E. VARGA
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The Perfect Gift
JESSIE G. CALDWELL
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Ascension
BEATRICE CLAYTON
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In reference to the interesting article in a recent issue of...
Sigge Cronstedt
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The terms used by Mrs. Eddy to define God are synonymous
W. K. Primrose
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The writer of this report misrepresented Christian Science...
Richard E. Prince
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Association Meetings
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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The Disloyalty of Doubt
Albert F. Gilmore
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"The simplicity that is in Christ"
Ella W. Hoag
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Education
Duncan Sinclair
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Christian Science came to me thirty years ago
Jessie A. Moran
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Some years ago, after relying from my earliest recollection...
Florence Gilman Hart
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I wish to express my deep gratitude for Christian Science...
A. Jacqueline Shaw
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Over fourteen years ago I attended for the first time a...
Inez Dayton Blond
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As a little child I was compelled by doctors and specialists...
Mary Harriet Kettering
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About fourteen years ago I went to live with a man and...
Augustin Beaudry
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I owe so much to Christian Science that it is difficult to...
Mary E. Holloway
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It is nine years since I caught my first glimpse of the...
Stella Mae Biddle
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It is attributable entirely to Christian Science and its...
John Young Robertson with contributions from Augusta Weil Robertson
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I gratefully testify to the healing power of Christian Science
Minnie Schellenberger
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Edward S. Martin, E. A. DeVore, Harold Anson
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Notices
with contributions from Clerk of The Mother Church