Editorials

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The Effectiveness of "the Religious Idea."

W.

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?

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

M.

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...

Editor

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

S.

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

W.

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

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.
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What Shall I Do?

S.

We are prone to plume ourselves upon what we are accomplishing or have accomplished without duly considering the more vital question of how are we doing our work.
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The Beauty of Right Expression

W.

In the unfoldment of Truth the ideal is ever seeking for its true expression, and if its fair proportions do not appeal to us it evidences the fixity and irresponsiveness of our human sense.
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About Suspending Rules

M.

There seems to come a time in the history of every organization or society, when its members desire to act at once concerning some matter, and in order to expedite action it is proposed to "suspend the rules.
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The rule by which, in Christian Science, the words ...

Editor

The  rule by which, in Christian Science, the words Principle, Mind, Spirit, Soul, Life, Truth, Love, are used, as names of God, and as synonymous with the name God, is clearly defined in our text-book, Science and Health.