Editorials

Unto Whomsoever Much is Given

It is said of a late Englishman, that while a man of unusual breadth of learning, even among England's legions of the erudite, he was strikingly unlike most scholarly men in what may be termed the wasteful hoarding of his knowledge, a lifelong habit of reserve in expression having made him a somewhat remarkable example of the "reticence of learning.

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The Right Way

The announcement that the anthracite coal strike has practically been settled is cause for general thanksgiving, and the fact that it will be settled without final resort to brute force or starvation is something upon which the operators and miners on one hand, and the general public on the other are to be congratulated.

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Thanksgiving Day Service

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A special Lesson Sermon for the Thanksgiving Day service to be held in the Mother Church and the Branch Churches is being prepared, and will be published in due time.

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Timely Caution

From time to time, there have been exploited by various papers and magazines, voting contests for the most popular, the wittiest, and so on; the person receiving the greatest number of votes to be awarded a prize.

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The Effectiveness of "the Religious Idea."

It is a somewhat unusual thing for a commission of inquiry into economic conditions to commend the practical application of religious teaching as the only remedy for prevailing disorders, and Mr.

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Which is It?

Human sympathy with its open-handed charity, its word of commiseration, its tearful pity, and its tender counselings of resignation, comes to the sufferer in such a guise as not to be easily recognized as the subtlest of enemies.

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Pain not Providential

A contribution recently received for publication contained the following statement, "I thank thee, Lord, for hours of pain.

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Human sense is much more successful in self-analysis...

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Human sense is much more successful in self-analysis than in self-correction, and a careful and correct diagnosis of disease is often made when there is a most pitiful and discouraging absence of any suggestion respecting an adequate and available remedy.

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The New Old Bible

The Bible student to whom the Scriptures have been opened by its Key, Science and Health, finds sacred history to be not a collection of biographical abstractions, not a compilation of mere personal experience.

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Premonitions of Progress

There is much being said, pro and con, respecting the alleged decline of institutional religion, and it is certainly true that there are many features of present-day thought which must inevitably beget solicitude upon the part of those who, in any sence, identify Christianity with institutionalism.

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No Compromise

One of the most subtle temptations, to which we are subjected, is that of trying to make Christian Science easy for our friends, so that it will not grate harshly upon their preconceived notions of God and the universe, nor upon their views regarding socia, economic, and religious problems that have taxed the world for ages.

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Capitalization

MARY BAKER G. EDDY.

A correct use of capital letters in composition caps the climax of the old "new tongue.