Editorials

Editorial

Faith, Understanding, Achievement

George Shaw Cook

The prophet Isaiah wrote, "Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord!" In the one hundred and forty-sixth Psalm we read, "Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help;" and, "Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God.
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The Unmistakable Proofs of Christian Science

Alfred Pittman

To a large and growing number of people in many countries, healing through Christian Science is now a very familiar phenomenon.
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Personal Goodness

George Shaw Cook

Objection is made to the statement, "The effect of Principle is always good; that of personal sense is never so," but if one accepts the first part of this statement as being true, he will have to agree with the second part, if he would be logical and scientific.
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"The spiritual ultimate"

Evelyn F. Heywood

Not in what they say, not even in what they know of Truth can the value of men's lives be assessed, but in what they spiritually put into practice, alertly and consistently.
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"And set me in a large place"

Alfred Pittman

That there is not enough room for everyone, that one cannot enlarge his own experience without restricting other people's and cannot in any way enlarge it sufficiently, that there is not enough power or enough of something else for what needs to be done—all such appearances and conclusions are found in Christian Science to be mere mistakes of the human mind.
Editorial

Benediction

Evelyn F. Heywood

In the trials and temptations which lay ahead, the words of benediction, "This is my beloved Son," which had rested upon Jesus after his baptism by John, must have remained to comfort and sustain him in his darkest hours.
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One Attraction

George Shaw Cook

Dictionary definitions of the words "polarity" and "polarization" indicate that they refer to a kind of magnetic influence materially manifested in the attraction of the needle to the pole.
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Unity Indispensable—and Natural

Alfred Pittman

How spiritual power comes to light in human experience, doing its mighty healing works, and what it is that obscures this power to mankind, are clearly indicated in a single paragraph in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
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No Continuity to Evil

George Shaw Cook

The human mind, believing as it does in the reality of evil, quite easily acquires the habit of expecting and prophesying the continuity of evil conditions such as disease, famine, war, pestilence, and so forth.
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Progress for All

Alfred Pittman

It has often been observed that human happiness arises not so much from any given human state of things as from progress.
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Reliability

Evelyn F. Heywood

He who relies upon God in confidence that divine Love will preserve him, and that divine intelligence will direct him, ceases to fear or question the unreliability of others or of the world in which he lives.
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A Significant Prophecy

Editor

[The following editorial was published originally in The Christian Science Journal for December, 1898, in a period when Mrs.