Editorials

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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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.

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Material Beliefs Destroyed

William D. McCrackan

Popular opinion finds it difficult to admit that what are generally called material facts are nothing more substantial than material beliefs.

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Transformation

Annie M. Knott

A MOST insistent demand of the Christian religion reads, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

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"Pleasures and palaces"

William P. McKenzie

Perhaps the author of Home, Sweet Home" may not himself have roamed among palaces; but he did try out material pleasures, only to find with the Preacher that "all is vanity,"—that after all his searching abroad for pleasure, it was to be found in the simple joys of home.

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"History repeats itself"

MARY BAKER EDDY

"Conflict and persecution are the truest signs that can be given of the greatness of a cause or of an individual, provided this warfare is honest and a world-imposed struggle.

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Pleasure and Pain

Annie M. Knott

The psalmist gives us this assurance respecting our heavenly Father, "At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

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Habits

William D. McCrackan

Humanity prides itself on its good habits,—but is there reason to set so high a value upon mere habits, even if they are accounted good?

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The Trumpet Call

William P. McKenzie

"If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

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The Near Future

The Christian Science Board of Directors

These are days when the world is mobilizing its resources to the last available unit; but, because "all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation".