Editorials

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Tests and Trials

George Shaw Cook

If we are to progress in the understanding and demonstration of Christian Science, we must be willing to undergo tests of our faith, by means of which we prove our knowledge of Truth to be demonstrable, and adequate to meet our needs.
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Prayer for Victory and Peace

ALFRED PITTMAN

THE only genuine peace, Christian Science shows, is inseparable from victory—victory for righteousness.
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"Never record ages"

GEORGE SHAW COOK

There appear to be instances where, in order to comply with legal requirements and other man-made rules and regulations, it seems necessary to record ages.
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Requirement

Evelyn F. Heywood

How earnestly does each individual need to ask himself, and refuse to be satisfied until he has found the answer: What is it that life requires of me?
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"Unto the perfect day"

Alfred Pittman

To those who have learned something of it, Christian Science presents an incomparable challenge—the challenge to annul mortality and prove the perfection of Life.
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Man Inexhaustible

EVELYN F. HEYWOOD

NEVER was the certainly of the inexhaustible nature of God's care and protection for His own more dramatically expressed than in the words of Jesus, uttered at the moment of what appeared to be his gravest peril, "Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
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"The idols of civilization"

GEORGE SHAW COOK

THE Hebrew people were prone to turn away from the worship of God to various forms of idol worship, and the Hebrew prophets were constantly admonishing them to turn from their idolatry to serve the one living and true God.
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Mind's Infinite Resources

ALFRED PITTMAN

WHAT appears in the human view as inadequacy of resources, whether for individuals or nations, is found in Christian Science to be an illusion, an erroneous sense of things, which may be healed as disease is healed.
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Overconfidence and Apathy

GEORGE SHAW COOK

On pages 280 and 281 of her "Miscellaneous Writings," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says, "The doors of animal magnetism open wide for the entrance of error, sometimes just at the moment when you are ready to enter on the fruition of your labors, and with laudable ambition are about to chant hymns of victory for triumphs.
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"For they shall be filled"

Alfred Pittman

"Is it possible for me to improve substantially on my experience?
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Indestructibility

Evelyn F. Heywood

THE purpose of salvation is to prove that Life, with all its inherent values, its precious attributes, its boundless opportunities, is indestructible, and that man, God's expression, consciously recognizes this fact.
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"The highway to heaven"

Evelyn F. Heywood

Christ Jesus did not come telling the people of a God who demanded sacrifice for its own sake.