Editorials

Editorial

Disillusionment

Gustavus S. Paine

A man cannot hate another man whom he really knows, for though he may pity the mortal weakness that he observes, he must comprehend that the suggestions to which the weak one has succumbed are only such as mortal mind would offer in diverse forms to all.
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Hungering after Righteousness

Frederick Dixon

Righteousness is law, and law is that alone which is true.
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An Age of Chemistry

Gustavus S. Paine

Chemistry , as it is ordinarily thought of, deals with the transformation of matter, and whatever is material is, of course, the very opposite of the truth as revealed in Christian Science; but as Mrs.
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Purity

Frederick Dixon

Any person who has ever thought deeply over the meaning of Christian Science must have seen how fundamentally the question of purity enters into it.
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Building

Gustavus S. Paine

From the tower of Babel and the temples of Egypt to the mansions and skyscrapers of to-day material building has seemed difficult, because it represents a human concept of permanence that is impossible.
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On the Damascus Road

Frederick Dixon

Law is irreversible.
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"Spiritual tangibility"

Gustavus S. Paine

Whoever thinks of Christian Science as presenting to the world intangible ideals does not understand what tangibility consists of, for to think in terms of material things is not to know reality.
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Murder

Frederick Dixon

Every people, in every age, have done their utmost to protect themselves against murder.
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The Interpretation of Scripture

Gustavus S. Paine

The study of the Bible in the light of Christian Science is an awakening to the spiritual meaning of the creation which the divine Mind knows.
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On the Washing of Hands

Frederick Dixon

There is a common belief that the mentality of Pilate may be summed up in his famous question, What is truth?
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Moments of Healing

Gustavus S. Paine

In the practice of Christian Science one often finds that those seeking help will report, before the complete healing comes about, that they have had certain periods of relief, lulls in the seeming tempest of trouble, which have been welcome foretastes of what whole freedom is.
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The Father-Mother God

Frederick Dixon

The Fifth Commandment, though it may seem almost the easiest to understand of the ten words of the Decalogue, is, in some ways, perhaps the most difficult.