Editorials

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True Prayer and Vain Repetitions

William P. McKenzie

Jesus had very little patience with the formalities of religion.
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Food Conservation

Editor with contributions from Herbert Hoover, The Christian Science Board of Directors

By invitation of Mr.
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Adaptation

Annie M. Knott

A prominent educator once said that a very important element of progress is adaptation, or the faculty to adjust one's self to changed conditions.
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Christian Science not Debatable

William D. McCrackan

The association of the word Science with Christianity produces surprise when first heard.
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Economy

William P. McKenzie

In theology the word economy is used to mean a dispensation or distinct era under divine government.
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Treason

William D. McCrackan

The betrayal of friendship is generally accounted a particularly odious offense.
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Warfare, True and False

Annie M. Knott

Readers of the Bible are apt to overlook the fact that although the idea of peace figures largely therein, a great deal is also said about warfare.
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Government not Politics

William P. McKenzie

The problem usually set for a country or a community is to bring out a social order wherein there will be justice primarily.
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Distribution of Literature

The Christian Science Board of Directors

For a number of years the free distribution of Christian Science literature has been assuming increasingly larger proportions in the activity of the entire field.
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Prophecy

Annie M. Knott

There was perhaps never a time when prophecy was more eagerly looked into than at the present, and this is surely well, for we find in the first epistle to the Thessalonians this admonition: "Despise not prophesyings.
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Things that Seem

William D. McCrackan

Surface indications catch the eye of material beliefs and pretend to be solid facts.
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Principle Our Omnipresent Guide

William P. McKenzie

To Christian Scientists the word Principle expresses the truth that "God is infinite person," unlimited in knowledge and goodness, as the textbook states.