Editorials

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As God's Representative

Alfred Pittman

A Comparatively new student of Christian Science whose work required that he obtain much confidential information from the heads of large industrial concerns, and who was obliged to establish full confidence in himself and his own business house for this purpose, went one day to see the head of an organization with which neither he nor his company had previously dealt.
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The Careless Days Are Gone

Peter V. Ross

The sober days of responsibility have come.
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Do We Ask Enough?

Alfred Pittman

Christian Science has brought to mankind again the priceless gift of directly effective prayer, as practiced by Christ Jesus, and has shown that now as in his time its scope is not limited.
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Divine Impetus

Evelyn F. Heywood

Since God is almighty and man is the idea of God, man is the expression of almightiness.
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Duty

Evelyn F. Heywood

Duty has been thus defined: "Where a man loves what he commands himself to do.
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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.
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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.