Editorials

Editorial

"Effectual, fervent prayer"

Annie M. Knott

As shown in all human experience, there is an element of consciousness which, in time of stress, turns away from the things of sense to the spiritual and eternal; intermittently it may be, yet from necessity it refuses to be stilled until satisfied, if only for the hour.
Editorial

Our Easter

John B. Willis

On that first Easter Day, Truth gave adequate and eternal answer to every falsity of belief, every assertion of error.
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The Lectures

Archibald McLellan

Of the several plans formulated by our Leader for the correct presentation of Christian Science to the public, one of the most efficient in operation is the giving of lectures by the members of an official board.
Editorial

Dedication at Pittsburg

Editor with contributions from A. E. Pierpont, Mary Baker Eddy

The following correspondence between our Leader and the church at Pittsburg upon the occasion of the dedication of the new church edifice in that city, will be read with interest.
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Religious Freedom

Annie M. Knott

What depths of meaning lie in the words, "Freedom to worship God," and well may we ask whether this freedom has ever been realized on earth.
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The Pall of Ineffectiveness

John B. Willis

Nothing is more depleting to one's energy, more dampening to enthusiasm, or more discouraging to hope, than an abiding sense of spiritual inadequacy.
Editorial

God Does not Create Evil

Archibald McLellan

The following reference to a disaster in which more than fifty persons lost their lives occurs in a newspaper report of a sermon recently preached in Boston : —
Editorial

An Impossible Blend

John B. Willis

There is nothing so definite and incisive as truth.
Editorial

"Songs of deliverance"

Annie M. Knott

Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.
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Legislation

with contributions from John H. Mickey, Archibald McLellan

Less than the usual number of bills having for their object the suppression of Christian Science practice, have been introduced in the State legislatures this year, and of this number only the one introduced in Nebraska has been passed, but even in that State the measure has failed to become a law, because of the governor's veto.
Editorial

"God is the giver."

Archibald McLellan with contributions from E. Howard Gilkey, Mary Baker G. Eddy

Columbus, O.
Editorial

A Passing Anomaly

John B. Willis

It is doubtful if the present age presents a more surprising and incongruous spectacle than that of the pronounced opposition of many Christian ministers to the asserted possibility and experience of spiritual healing, The great body of evangelical clergymen accept the New Testament narrative of this healing as historically true, and, if questioned, they would probably say that all things are possible to him that believeth; nevertheless, both in their manifest removal from any thought of trying to profit by the privilege themselves, as well as in their ofttimes outspoken condemnation of those who are conscientiously endeavoring to fulfil our Lord's commands to heal the sick, they give unmistakable evidence of the entire absence, not only of faith, but of inquiring interest in the subject.