Editorials

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The Publication Committee

M.

That the most popular misconceptions of Christian Science, its teachings and practice, have given place to more general understanding and greater sympathy, must be apparent to even casual readers of the daily press, and it is no less true that, as a whole, public misrepresentation of our Cause and its Leader has steadily decreased within the past few years.
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Significant Questions

MARY BAKER G. EDDY.

Who shall be greatest?
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The Lord knoweth whether I shall ever see your faces...

Editor

The Lord knoweth whether I shall ever see your faces more; but whether the Lord hath appointed that or not, I charge you before God and His holy angels to follow me no further than I have followed Christ.
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The many commendatory and appreciative letters received...

Editor

The many commendatory and appreciative letters received since the first number of Der Christian Science Herold was issued prove that this addition to our literature was well timed to meet the needs of our Cause, and that our estimate of the desire for an official publication in the German language was correct.
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Christian Science in Mexico

W.

The first lecture delivered in Mexico, on Christian Science, a report of which appeared in the Sentinel of April 11, dated an important era, we are sure, in the spiritual life of that country.
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Open the Door

S.

All are familiar with Holman Hunt's great picture lesson, "The Light of the World.
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The Lectures

M.

The very large attendance at the semi-annual lecture of the Mother Church given in Symphony Hall, Boston, when several hundred persons, probably a thousand, were turned away for lack of room, indicates that suffering and disheartened humanity is still seeking a practical means of escape from pain, sin, sickness, and sorrow, and that the means heretofore employed for relief from these relentless task-masters, have been largely unavailing.
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The Right to Act

Editor

LEGISLATORS with misguided zeal have introduced in various state legislatures bills prohibiting the practice of healing by Christian Science.
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We are glad for the following sound and sensible comments...

Ed

We are glad for the following sound and sensible comments respecting paternalistic legislation, from a cotemporary editor, even though he takes occasion to close with a rather uncomplimentary crack of his whip.
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A religious life must always precede religious statement...

W.

A Religious life must always precede religious statement and phenomena, and this important point was cleverly stated by the unknown writer who has said that "Somebody must be religious before anybody can be a theologian.
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The Day Breaks

S.

It is morning, the shades of the night vanish before the herald of the day.
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The Easter Light

W.

Luke's references to the diversity of nationalities and tongues which was found in Jerusalem "when the day of Pentecost was fully come".