Editorials

"God loveth a cheerful giver"

Editor with contributions from F. A. Piper, J. A. Moore, Anna Meehan, Mary Baker Eddy

Concord, N.

In a recent issue of the Optimist, a paper published in the State prison at Jackson, Michigan, it is said that a prisoner, while attempting to escape, fell from the sixth story to the ground, striking projections several times in his descent.

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"Ye shall be clean."

John B. Willis

One of the distinctive features of the Temple service as ordained by Moses, was its requirements with respect to personal and ceremonial cleanliness, and the more one meditates upon the symbolic and suggestive meanings of these requirements the more significant they are seen to be.

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Moral Instruction

Archibald McLellan

Those who believe that crime is on the increase offer in support of their argument the news columns of the daily press.

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No Large Gathering in Boston This Year

Ira O. Knapp, Joseph Armstrong, William B. Johnson, Stephen A. Chase, Archibald McLellan

In view of the fact that a general attendance of the members of The Mother Church at the Communion and Annual Meeting in Boston entails the expenditure of a large amount of money, and the further fact that it is important that the Building Fund of The Mother Church should be completed as early as possible, it has been decided to omit this year the usual large gathering in Boston, and to ask the members to contribute to the Building Fund the amount which they would have expended in such an event.

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The Appeal of Nature

John B. Willis with contributions from Marcus Aurelius

The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are.

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E. Noyes Whitcomb

Archibald McLellan

We are called upon to record, with tenderest love and sympathy, the sudden passing from our sight of our beloved brother, E.

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Law gives Freedom

Annie M. Knott

Students of Christian Science are often asked if they believe that law can be set aside, as, for instance, in the healing of those diseases which, in medical opinion, are invariably fatal, according to ordinary human experience.

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Preparation

Archibald McLellan

We are frequently asked to write something in the nature of advice regarding the selection of Readers in the branch churches, but we do not feel that it is within our province to do this, and if it were, we should be more than doubtful of our ability to decide questions which seem to tax the best thought of those to whom this problem is of immediate concern in connection with their individual work.

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The May Class in the College

Editor with contributions from Mary L. Hooper, Jessie B. Cooper, Louise D. Radzinski, Priestly Hall, William L. Post, John H. Williams, Charles Varey, Mary Baker Eddy

Boston.

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Correspondence between our Leader and Third Church of Christ, Scientist, London, England

Arthur Firth, Mary Baker Eddy

London, April 10, 1905.

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Apropos of Easter

John B. Willis

In contrast with much religious thought of the past, which, through false veneration, has come under the bondage of superstition, mortal sense is now swinging to the opposite extreme of irreverent questioning, and to-day there are those who in all soberness deny the possibility of phenomena of our Saviour's life in which the faith of Christianity has always been centered.