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An Afterthought

Sitting by the yet glowing embers of our Thanksgiving fire, we are led to muse upon the real significance of the day, and to wonder what lasting appeal it may have left with us.

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It is very surprising that there are so few who fully recognize the power which attaches to belief in law, whether this belief be based upon truth or upon error, and it is no less surprising that many things which have no foundation in the facts of existence are thoughtlessly taken for granted.

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The Lectures

The large number of newspaper reports received at this office indicate that much more attention is being paid to the work of the Board of Lectureship, and that a greater number of lectures have been delivered during the present lecture year than ever before, but the article which we publish in this issue of the Sentinel, upon the request of the Board, shows that still greater care and forethought are required if the best results are to be obtained.

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Counterfeit Letters

CALVIN A. FRYE

I LEARN that letters have been received by persons, purporting to bear my signature, making complaint against them; one of those declares I had consulted a lawyer for Mrs.

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Mrs. Eddy's Christmas Hymn

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We have further reason for gratitude to our Leader, Rev.

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Mind, not Matter

Among the many helpful sayings of our Leader which are not found in our text-book, is this, "Not matter, but Mind satisfieth," and it touches the heights and depths of experience.

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A Profound and Delicate Question

The question of the extent and constitutional limits of the judicial authority has received an unusual amount of attention in late years, and in a recent editorial a leading American journal has referred to some aspects of the subject which are of especial interest to Christian Scientists.

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"A Broad-minded Man."

Recently The Pittsburg Dispatch devoted considerable space to a discussion, pro and con, of the merits of Christian Science, and while the discussion was interesting as revealing the various opinions of the clergymen, physicians, and lawyers who were interviewed by the reporters, it failed to present anything new in the way of argument against the practice of Christian Science in the healing of sickness and sin.

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Recommended by our Leader

MARY BAKER G. EDDY

November 17, 1903.

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The Greater Blessedness

All who come into Christian Science must learn sooner or later that spiritual understanding reverses human beliefs and opinions, a statement which is warranted both by the teaching and the practice of the Master, else would it not have been said of him, "Never man spake like this man.

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A Worthier Gratitude

One of the most regrettable aspects of much of our thanksgiving is its attachment to a material sense and estimate of good.

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Thanksgiving

Until recent years the custom of annually setting apart a day of public and national Thanksgiving, established by the sturdy New England pioneers, was confined to the United States, and it is not many decades since it was looked upon as a purely New England institution; but the devout and reverential observance of this custom has steadily increased throughout the world, and its influence must now be counted an important factor in the world's progress.