Editorials

Usefulness

Evelyn F. Heywood

The measure of the individual's usefulness depends upon whether he sees himself as servant or as Son.

When the Apostle Paul wrote the Ephesians that there is "one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all," he must have discerned that God, infinite good, is omnipresent and universal.

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"For a victory over evil"

Alfred Pittman

"The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible," Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures".

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Promptness versus Procrastination

George Shaw Cook

Many are familiar with the saying, "Procrastination is the thief of time," and it might be said with equal truth that procrastination is a waster of time.

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Mesmerism Destroying Itself

Alfred Pittman

Recent years have undoubtedly seen the boldest and largest-scale use of intentional mesmerism, or hypnotism, that the world has known; and this coming from under cover of a method which has nothing to commend it, plainly foreshadows its extinction.

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Continuity

Evelyn F. Heywood

The fact that man has dwelt forever an idea in Mind, expressing the irrevocable nature of permanence and continuity, is the teaching of Christian Science.

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Influence

Evelyn F. Heywood

On pages 82 and 83 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes, "In a world of sin and sensuality hastening to a greater development of power, it is wise earnestly to consider whether it is the human mind or the divine Mind which is influencing one.

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No Shortages in Divine Mind

George Shaw Cook

In the situation that exists at present, one seeking to meet even the simplest needs is confronted by the belief that there is a shortage of the article or commodity desired.

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"Thy kingdom come"

Alfred Pittman

Among mankind in general, Christian Science is still known chiefly, no doubt, for its healing of the sick; and its achievements in that field are more and more widely acknowledged.

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Wisdom and Love

George Shaw Cook

"Wisdom ," so the proverb reads, "is the principal thing," and this statement would seem to be confirmed by the experience of those who have undertaken to live and to demonstrate Christian Science.

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"Unprecarious joy"

Evelyn F. Heywood

Christ Jesus told his disciples how joy was to be obtained and how preserved.

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Man's Unity with God

Alfred Pittman

In the ordinary human view, an individual may seem to be more or less isolated, shut off from the persons or things or the intelligence he needs, and therefore to be unequal to the tasks before him.