Editorials

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THE DILEMMA OF MORTAL MIND

John B. Willis

The significance of the stand which Christian Science has taken for a demonstrable knowledge of spiritual truth is more clearly seen when we note the multiplicity and the strength of those currents of thought which have originated in mental revolt against the inconsistency and unsatisfactoriness of theologies that have been dogmatic but not demonstrable, creedal but not convincing.
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CHRISTIAN HEALING

Archibald McLellan

A recent critic of Christian Science, who asserted that he had no other object to accomplish than to refute erroneous doctrines that had been widely circulated, is quoted by the Baltimore Sun as saying that our Master's injunctions to his disciples to heal the sick were directed only to the twelve apostles, and that there is no Biblical authority for concluding that they are applicable to all mankind.
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REGARDING THE LESSON-SERMONS

Editor

In the 1907 second revised edition of our text-book, Science and Health, some changes have been made in the line numbers since the Quarterly for January, February, March was prepared.
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GENUINE GOOD CHEER

John B. Willis

It is no less pleasant to give than to receive the cheery greeting, "A Happy New Year!" The habit contributes to that commerce of kindness in which all may have part, and from which all may receive an appreciable profit over and above the satisfaction of smiling upon others.
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"THE SCIENCE OF BEING"

Annie M. Knott

A student of Christian Science remarked recently that too many beginners overlook the important fact that Christian Science is primarily and essentially the Science of Being, and strive to make it instead the Science of getting.
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MRS. EDDY AND CHARITY

Archibald Mclellan

The announcement made in last week's issue of the Sentinel that Mrs.
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"THE HIGH GOAL."

Annie M. Knott

It is very questionable whether the votaries of pleasure or those who devote themselves to the task of acquiring material possessions have in reality any well-defined goal toward which they press.
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THE PRESENT PAST

John B. Willis

Religious history has a value as a repository of the archives of human experience.
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TO FOUND AN INSTITUTION

Mary Baker Eddy

Pleasant View, Concord, N.
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THE HIGHER CRITICISM

Mary Baker G. Eddy

An earnest student writes to me: "Would it be asking too much of you to explain more fully why you call Christian Science the higher criticism?
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LAW

Annie M. Knott

During the last forty years thinkers have been coming to see and to admit that a regular sequence of events is not necessarily a proof of law at work, and in this respect they approach the teaching of Christian Science, that law in the true sense is that only which expresses an all wise and all loving God.
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THE "HAND IN HAND" IDEA

John B. Willis

In expressing his conviction that drug medication and spiritual healing should go "hand in hand," a prominent minister has recently fathered a suggestion which may commend itself to some, and especially to those who from the asserted "common sense" point of view would say.