Editorials

Editorial

Prayer

Margaret Morrison

The enlightenment of the human race may be traced through the quality of its prayers, from the superstition which offered human sacrifice to appease a god of darkness and terror to the scientific exegesis of prayer given by Mary Baker Eddy in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
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Appreciation and Appropriation

Margaret Morrison

An understanding heart is an appreciative heart.
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How Thankful Are We?

John Randall Dunn

At this season of the year, in conformity with an established American custom, the people of the United States are summoned by Presidential proclamation to a day of national thanksgiving.
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Evil Claims to Have; God Has

Paul Stark Seeley

The student of Christian Science will do well to remember that evil, the negative mortal mind, alias the material senses, claims for itself everything that belongs to God, immortal Mind.
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Triumphing over Heredity

John Randall Dunn

A great document and charter of liberty, in fact, one of the first declarations of independence in recorded thought, is to be found in the Bible in the eighteenth chapter of Ezekiel.
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Good Is Never Absent

Margaret Morrison

One of the results of a belief in dualism, positive and negative forces, a divisible God, is the supposition of the absence of God, or good, and the consequent suppositional presence of evil, which presents itself in many and various forms.
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No Substitute for Spiritual Reality

Paul Stark Seeley

In daily experience no one likes to accept a substitute for the original product, yet this is just what mortals have done and are doing in regard to life and manhood.
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Rules of Demonstration

Margaret Morrison

Christian Science is a religion based on divine Principle, with fixed scientific rules for its demonstration.
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Some Thoughts on Election Day

John Randall Dunn

In a democracy, the very name of which indicates the rule of the people, nothing is nearer the heart of the alert citizen than the elective franchise—the right to vote.
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Are We Good Waiters?

John Randall Dunn

Why is it hard for some students of Christian Science to prove themselves good waiters?
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Man Cannot Hate

Paul Stark Seeley

Strong language is used in the Scriptures to condemn hate, and to emphasize its unrelatedness to God or God's man.
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Scientific Idealism

Margaret Morrison

Idealism without faith or foundation in the facts of Spirit limps between two standpoints and eventually leads to what is called disillusionment, heartbreak, or cynicism.