Editorials

Editorial

"All that really is"

Gustavus S. Paine

The simple gladness to be alive is fresh and vital because it is the proof of Life itself, untouched by any confused sense of human ways and means nurtured by the supposed mortal mind as it expands its unreal belief.
Editorial

Faith by Works

Frederick Dixon

The apostle James put the practice of Christian Science in one concrete sentence when he wrote, "Shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
Editorial

The Prescribing of Drugs

Gustavus S. Paine

The technique of prescribing drugs, like that of every other phase of medical or surgical practice, has changed immensely, since the discovery of Christian Science, as the doctors themselves have recognized that the effect of a prescription on a patient is mental.
Editorial

The Seventh Day

Frederick Dixon

The world has altered since Moses imposed the ordinances of the law on the people at Sinai.
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The Nail in the Sure Place

Gustavus S. Paine

One phase of the overturning that has been going on throughout the world is a questioning of the Bible by those who consider themselves modernists in philosophy, literature, and general thinking.
Editorial

A Great Leader

Frederick Dixon

True leadership is one of the greatest of qualities.
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Methuselah and Longevity

Gustavus S. Paine

Of Methuselah, the son of Enoch and the grandfather of Noah, the Bible has very little to say.
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Blasphemy

Frederick Dixon

The man in the street probably imagines that taking the name of God in vain is a mere matter of bad language.
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Seven Days

Gustavus S. Paine

In spite of the multiplication of interests and activities in the the modern world, humanity is constantly seeking for novelty, never satisfied with the most exuberant forms of materiality.
Editorial

Matter

Frederick Dixon

For twenty-three centuries the thinkers of the world have disputed as to the substance and origin of matter, From the days of Plato and Aristotle downward two great schools have contended, the one that matter was the subjective condition of mind, expression of force or energy, and the other that it was the only substance existing.
Editorial

Redemption

Gustavus S. Paine

SUPPOSITIONAL mortal consciousness, which psychologists and other people have believed to be mind or a phase of mind, capable of lapses into unconsciousness or semi-consciousness, and divisible into parts, one of which has been called subconsciousness, is not true Mind.
Editorial

Strong Reasons

Frederick Dixon

THE world has not given up idolatry because it has grown too civilized to prostrate itself before graven images.