Editorials

Count the Blessings

The subject of our experience meetings is of so much interest to the Field that a few additional thoughts respecting them cannot be amiss.

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If we base our judgment upon the history of the church militant, we can but conclude that one of the last things which the followers of Christ Jesus are willing to learn is that the weapons of their warfare are not carnal.

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Changing Opinions

The following article is copied from the Boston Transcript :—

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The Mother Church Building Fund

George H. Kinter

[We are very glad to give a prominent place to the following letter.

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The Extinction of Evil

Believers in Christian Science are frequently asked to explain their continued adherence to its teaching after they have been healed by it.

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Our Thought of Man

Many of those who are led to speak discouragingly of the apparent inadequacy of Christian endeavor to stem the tides of sin, find the explanation of present conditions in the fact that the terrors of the law are no longer preached, — that the doctrine of human depravity and fitness for hell which incited the earnestness and eloquence of an Edwards and a Finney is practically ignored by Christian leaders.

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Another Favorable Decision

The case of Speed versus Tomlinson, which has been pending for some time in the courts of New Hampshire, has just been decided by the Supreme Court, — the court of last resort, — in favor of the defendant, Rev.

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Environment

When failure overtakes mortals, as it often does, they are apt to lay the blame for their misfortunes upon their environment, and they may fail to see that in so doing they are conceding the domination of matter, and practically admitting that mental capacity is the vassal of chance and change.

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A Better Way

The editor of a prominent daily voices a very general protest when he says that if things continue at their present pace, every man who hopes to retain a vestige of his strength and comfort will have to keep a scientific valet about him all the time to sterilize his toothpicks before he uses them, and perform a thousand other kindred services, in keeping with the petty requirements of modern medical dictation.

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A Notable Book

M. with contributions from James S. McCartney, Mary Baker Eddy

The following telegrams prefaced the delivery to Rev.

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The Equipment of Experience

The web of human life is of so involved a pattern, and the countless threads which enter into its composition are thrown by so many hands, that much of it may remain a meaningless and unintelligible tangle for most of us until that hour of spiritual awakening which illumines not only the path of the future but the experiences of the past.

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"Testimonies of Healing"

We are in receipt of a letter from a friend, a Christian Scientist, who calls attention to the unsatisfactory nature of the subject-matter and character of some of the testimonies given at our Wednesday evening meetings; "Testimonies" which do not conform in any manner to the rules of evidence, and which fail to carry conviction to the sincere seeker for truth who, for the first time, upon the solicitation of some friend, has attended one of these meetings.