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The Healing Leaves

Alfred Farlow

I have been requested to reconcile the non-use of medicine with the Scriptural statement, "And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

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Strength

A. J. F.

This text made such a deep impression that I often thought upon it and read the chapters relating to Samson again and again, but could not at once see the lesson which I wished to gain.

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Hearing that a church member has said recently, "Our church does not yet see the necessity for giving a lecture," I would like to tell of the experience of a small church which made this demonstration in the face of many seeming difficulties, and which is now rejoicing in the blessings which follow from obedience to this wise and loving provision of our Leader, as set forth in the Church Manual.

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An Allegory

KATHERINE M. YATES.

A man once lay immured within a prison cell.

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The Value of a Good Name

RICHARD P. VERRALL.

The success of a business enterprise often depends entirely upon the fact that well-known names are connected with its promotion.

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Mental Corrections

M. G. KAINS.

To the Christian Scientist who has been a student of natural science, it is a matter of surpassing interest to note the statements of other physicists, as Truth compels them to discard theories formerly cherished, and accept more advanced views.

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From Our Exchanges

with contributions from W. B. Flanders

If every public officer were really a Christian, if every employer and every laborer were really a Christian, if every merchant, every householder, every man, woman, and child were really a Christian, of course the kingdom of heaven would not be far away.

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The New By-laws for the Sunday School

Editor with contributions from Calvin C. Hill, Mary Baker Eddy.

The following letters show true appreciation of the new By-laws relating to the Sunday School, and our Leader's deep interest in the spiritual welfare of the children as well as her estimate of faithfulness in the Sunday School workers.

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One cannot help conceding that to attain its growth there...

Albert E. Miller.

One cannot help conceding that to attain its growth there must be in the teaching of Christian Science something very satisfactory and wholesome.

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The courts have held that "if there are distinct and different...

with contributions from Frank W. Gale.

The courts have held that "if there are distinct and different schools of practice, as allopathic or old school, homoeopathic, Thompsonian, hydropathic or water cure, and a physician of one of those schools is called in, his treatment is to be tested by the general doctrines of his school, and not by those of other schools.