Editorials

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Unity

Evelyn F. Heywood

The great Daniel Webster wrote, "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

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Continual Preservation

George Shaw Cook

The fortieth Psalm contains the prayer, "Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

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In the testimonies given in our churches and periodicals, there are frequent expressions of gratitude for membership in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and its branches; and a great number of people throughout the world know how sincere such expressions can be—how inadequate indeed they often seem to those who offer them.

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Be Alert!

George Shaw Cook

Alertness is a quality which is very much needed in these times, but to be alert does not necessarily mean to be apprehensive.

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For Complete and Conclusive Victory

Alfred Pittman

"The divine demand, 'Be ye therefore perfect,' is scientific, and the human footsteps leading to perfection are indispensable," Mary Baker Eddy, the beloved Leader of Christian Scientists, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures".

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Prophecy

Evelyn F. Heywood

WHETHER he is aware of it or not, every individual has within himself, as God's representative, the spirit of prophecy—the ability to express the allness and present availability of divine Love.

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Tangibility

Evelyn F. Heywood

The writer of Ecclesiastes beheld the vanity and inevitable conclusion of all materiality.

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"If thine eye be single"

George Shaw Cook

As recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus once said, "The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

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Proving the Allness of God, Good

Alfred Pittman

Christian Scientists recognize that true worship is allied with true effectiveness in the overcoming of sin, disease, and death, and that the basis of both is recognition of the allness of God, good, and the consequent nothingness of evil.

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Animal Magnetism Not Power

George Shaw Cook

It is said that the phase of animal magnetism which has come to be known as mesmerism was first brought into notice by a German, named Mesmer.

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Sensibility

Evelyn F. Heywood

On page 204 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy, describing the effect of the baptism of the Holy Ghost upon human consciousness, has written, "It develops individual capacity, increases the intellectual activities, and so quickens moral sensibility that the great demands of spiritual sense are recognized, and they rebuke the material senses, holding sway over human consciousness.

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The Real Source of Help in Healing

Alfred Pittman

Christian Scientists welcome the manifestly increasing recognition among physicians of the importance of thought in relation to disease.