Editorials

Editorial

"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.
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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.
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"Proofs of God's care"

Evelyn F. Heywood

The proof of God's care does not lie in the mere possession of human ease, physical health, and prosperity, though mortal mind would fain have us so believe.
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Infinite Capacity

George Shaw Cook

Some synonyms of the word "infinite," given by Webster's dictionary, are "limitless," "boundless," and "immeasurable.
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Prayer for Country and Church

Mary Baker Eddy

Pray for the prosperity of our country, and for her victory under arms; that justice, mercy, and peace continue to characterize her government, and that they shall rule all nations.
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God Our Strength

Alfred Pittman

The words, "God is my strength," uttered in substance by many Scriptural characters, are a statement of actual fact for every one of God's creatures, Christian Science shows.