Editorials

Mrs. Eddy's Request Granted

Irving C. Tomlinson

[The following letter to Mrs.

It has been claimed that Christian Science practitioners are unfitted to heal the sick in view of their asserted inability to diagnose disease, not having made a study of symptomatology, and to this charge practitioners have made the best possible answer by continuing to do the thing of which they are said to be incapable.

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"The everlasting gospel"

Annie M. Knott

It is agreed by many religious writers that those who are striving for more spirituality find greater help in the study of Gospels than in any other part of the Bible.

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Medical Legislation

Archibald McLellan

We are advised by our brethren in Louisiana that the recent attempt of the physicians in that State to secure legislation adverse to the practice of Christian Science has been defeated, the proposed bill having been withdrawn by its author in order to give it, as he said, "a decent burial.

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Faith in Good

Annie M. Knott

ONE of the most remarkable lessons given by the great Teacher was that in which he told his disciples that they should be ready to forgive a brother even though he repeated the trespass seven times in a day, the only condition imposed being repentance on the part of the offender.

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"Healed by reading Science and Health"

Archibald McLellan

IN preparing the contents of this issue of the Sentinel we have been especially impressed by the testimony of several persons who were healed solely through the study of our text-book, and while many such testimonies have been published heretofore, we recall none that has impressed us more profoundly than that of Edith Lamar Burch, which will be found on page 766.

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The Living Bread

Annie M. Knott

We can estimate the relative value which the great Teacher placed upon the spiritual and material, when we consider his words, "Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life;" to which he added, "He that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

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A Belated Throe of Prejudice

John B. Willis

Every manifestation of prejudice is obtrusive and out of place, but its utter unfitness is never quite so apparent as when it displays itself in the columns of a religious journal.

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Our Campaign of Education

Archibald McLellan

During the six years that the Publication Committee has been at work, the results accruing from its labors have amply justified the wisdom of our Leader in establishing it as an agency for the correction of misstatements regarding Christian Science and its followers, but this Committee still has a great deal of work before it, and it needs the earnest and loyal support of every member of our Church in order that it may accomplish the good it should do.

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Scientific Discernment

John B. Willis

The practical aspect of the Christ-teaching is nowhere more marked than in the parable of the wheat and the tares.

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Prevention Better than Cure

Annie M. Knott

The familiar axiom, "The proper study of mankind is man," expresses a sentiment with which Christian Scientists are heartily in accord.

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A Changed Thought

Archibald McLellan

A NOTICEABLE change has come over the religious press in general in its attitude toward Christian Science, and this change may briefly be described as a transition from unqualified condemnation to timid and partial commendation, from an attitude which regarded Christian Science as beyond the limit of Christian toleration to one which sees in it an available something, an influence for good, which the churches have neglected to their own detriment.