Editorials

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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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.

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The Way

ANITA G. LITTLE

There's only one way to heaven;Tis by knowing man is already there,Abiding in God's love, unfailing,And yielding our lives to His care.

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Separation

Frederick Dixon

SPEAKING absolutely, there is no such thing as separation.

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The Qualities that Serve God

Gustavus S. Paine

Infinite Mind with its infinite manifestation is the present reality instead of any human counterfeit that may seem either pleasant or disagreeable, praiseworthy or reprehensible.

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Covetousness

Frederick Dixon

That famous writer of mimes, Publilius Syrus, has summed up his conception of the greed of covetousness in a famous apothegm, "Effugere cupiditatem regnum est vincere," to escape covetousness is to conquer a kingdom.

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The Victory of Experience

Gustavus S. Paine with contributions from Mary Blomfield

Through the practice of Christian Science one proves that, on the one hand, the real man has never fallen from perfection, and that, on the other hand, his true existence as spiritual idea has never developed by evolutionary stages or in any other way from protoplasmic matter.

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Personality

Frederick Dixon

The original nature worshiper worshiped pure nature, the winds, and the moon, and then in turn the sun.

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Self-Examination

Gustavus S. Paine

The self examination that is valuable is the examination of the true self and not merely an introspective process of mortal mind to determine one's supposed faults.