Editorials

Editorial

Our Conversation Is in Heaven

Frederick Dixon

The Elizabethan language is not the language of the twentieth century, and so it comes about that the Greek word which the translators of the Authorized Version rendered conversation, in the epistle to the Philippians, means really citizenship.
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Willingness to Investigate

Gustavus S. Paine

Some people have seemed afraid to investigate Christian Science, so sure have they thought themselves that its teachings must be in some way dangerous.
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The Patience of Principle

Frederick Dixon

The appeal to war as an arbitrament of human quarrels is rooted in the fundamental passions of the human mind.
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"The desert a resting-place"

Gustavus S. Paine

The statement that Mind is the only place that really is may seem strange to some who are not familiar with the reasoning of Christian Science; but the fact itself is being recognized by many, including those who have been considering the theory of relativity.
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Sacrifice

Frederick Dixon

There is, probably, no word about which more nonsense is talked, unless it be love, than the word sacrifice.
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The True Armament

Gustavus S. Paine with contributions from Eva Hammond Churchill

Infinite, divine intelligence and its expression do not have to be armed against anything, for there cannot be anything besides the infinity which is all there is.
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Loneliness

Frederick Dixon

The philosopher who directs his attention to the word lone in any of its various phases finds himself faced by a number of glaring yet interesting contradictions.
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Borrowing and Lending

Gustavus S. Paine

Credit and security are two of the commonest words that are used in the world of business; but many people do not comprehend in the least that their real meaning is metaphysical.
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Hatred

Frederick Dixon

Lord Bryce diagnosing, in his recent speech before the Merchants' Association, in New York, the case of present discontents in Europe, ignored the usual category of superficial irritants, and, seeking a cause truly fundamental, declared, "The real disease from which Europe now suffers is hatred, the hatreds of peoples to one another.
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The Writing of Articles

Gustavus S. Paine

An article in the Christian Science periodicals is much more than a sermon, a piece of advice, an essay, or an argument.
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Leadership

Frederick Dixon

Nothing has got the human race into more trouble than its habit of following and being followed.
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Suffering Good to Be So Now

Gustavus S. Paine

THE words of Christ Jesus to John the Baptist, "Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness," have been used by many people as a reason why they may allow themselves to continue indefinitely in all sorts of materiality, whereas Christ Jesus himself was continually proving that man lives in Spirit, not in matter.