Editorials

Editorial

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.
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False Witness

Frederick Dixon

In all ages the crime of false witness has been regarded with peculiar detestation.
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Stillness

Gustavus S. Paine

Amid the noise and hurry of the city one may long for the quiet of the mountains or the forest, but in the physical solitude far from railroads and people one may yearn for the life of the city.
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Idle Words

Frederick Dixon

There was no point which Christ Jesus was more determined upon insisting than the metaphysical one that cause always approximates effect, and that the one must be judged by the other.
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Music and Musicians

Gustavus S. Paine

Music , humanly interpreted, is one of the most emotional concepts of mortal mind.
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Stealing

Frederick Dixon

The authors of the church catechism had a broader sense than is usual of the Eighth Commandment, when they instructed their readers to keep their hands from picking and stealing, and their tongues from evil speaking, lying, and slandering.
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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.