Editorials

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The Missionary Idea

John B. Willis

Love for our fellow-men being the truest evidence of our love for God, it follows that the missionary spirit is vital to the Christian life.
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The Efficacy of Christian Science

Archibald McLellan

It has often been alleged by persons opposed to Christian Science, that if this system possesses any healing efficacy at all, it extends only to nervous and imaginary diseases, and is not to be relied upon in serious cases or in those believed to require surgery; but however plausible this statement may seem on its face, it is not borne out by the facts of actual experience.
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"What is man?"

Annie M. Knott

The question, What is man?
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"It doth not yet appear"

John B. Willis

In the celebrated third chapter of his first epistle, St.
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The Mind which was in Christ Jesus

Archibald McLellan

That the views of physicians are changing, and that they are getting away from the old idea of almost unlimited drugging, is significantly set forth in a few words in an article by Dr.
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Man's Native Element

Annie M. knott

Among the many testimonies to the healing power of Truth which are given in our periodicals, or at the Wednesday meetings, the greater number contain expressions of thankfulness for the illumination of the Scriptures which comes with the study of Science and Health.
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"A Religion of Deeds."

Archibald McLellan

The following appreciative word from the Pendleton, Ore.
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Longing for Truth

John B. Willis

Beneath the superficiality and sham, the pride and prejudice of mortal sense, there is an inherent love for the genuine, the beautiful and the good, which witnesses ever and again for the image of God; and false fetters of educated belief and conventional habit are cast aside as the husks that they are, —the higher consciousness, the true man, claiming his own.
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Reward

Annie M. Knott

THE story of Abraham, as given in Genesis, is of profound interest, showing, as it does, what is possible to one of large and noble character in the most trying circumstances and with no guidance save that of the divine Mind.
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"Moral Remedies"

ARCHIBALD McLELLAN

Modern Medicine, in its review of the recommendation recently made by Sir Lauder Brunton, an eminent English physician and surgeon, that certain drugs be administered for the purpose of counteracting the effects of irritating occurrences and depressing news, advances the opinion that in certain cases of bad temper "moral remedies are necessary as well as physical," but it does not advise how nor by whom these moral remedies shall be administered.
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"As a little child."

JOHN B. WILLIS

IN moments of doubt and despondency, men often express the wish that they might again possess the simple faith of their childhood, and the general thought of the impossibility of its fulfilment renders this longing deeply pathetic.
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Progressiveness

Annie M. Knott

BETWEEN thirty and forty years ago, advanced thinkers began to urge the necessity for progressiveness in religion as well as in all else, and some preachers courageously echoed this sentiment, even at the risk of being accounted heretics for so doing.