Editorials

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The Fifth Commandment

Archibald McLellan

It may be only a characteristic consequent of a rapidly growing and prosperous people, or it may be the swing of the pendulum from one extreme to the other, but it seems to be quite generally conceded that the tendency of the present generation to look upon the fifth commandment as obsolete or out of date is one that may easily have serious consequences.
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"Knowing the time"

Annie M. Knott

The wise man declares that there is "a time to every purpose under the heaven.
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"I was afraid"

John B. Willis

The paralyzing and stultifying effects of fear are perhaps nowhere more plainly set forth than in the case of the third servant referred to in the parable of the talents.
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Judged by Their Works

Archibald McLellan

It is not strange, perhaps, that in the forty years the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
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"That they might have life"

John B. Willis

We of the northlands are again surrounded by reminders of that miracle of renaissance, that tidal reappearing of the infinitely varied manifestations of life, which may be so interpreted as to bring stimulus and spiritual uplift to thought as well as delight to the eye.
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"Risen with Christ"

Annie M. Knott

Christian Scientists are sometimes asked why their church does not observe "times and seasons" in the way that a good many other churches do, as, for instance, the Sunday called Easter.
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"Now is Christ risen"

Archibald McLellan

Every now and then this question is put to the earnest seeker after Truth: Why, if Christian Science teaches that there is no death, do its followers pass through this experience?
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Endurance

Annie M. Knott

The word endurance does not convey the same meaning to all classes of people.
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Rebuilding the Temple

John B. Willis

Standing in the presence of the pathetic ruins of the Parthenon, one is impressed with the splendor of its ideal, with the greatness of the people who conceived it and gave it such superb expression, and with the loss to all the world which was inflicted by a grossly stupid vandalism.
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A Wall of Defense

Archibald McLellan

It is gratifying to note, as the years go by, how one by one the great scientific discoveries promulgated by Mrs.
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"Be not dismayed"

John B. Willis

Whatever its seeming hindrances and defeats, human history has proved beyond peradventure that truth demonstrated always survives and in the long run overcomes every resistance to its advance.
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Earth's Atmosphere

Annie M. Knott

As the seasons follow each other with extremes of cold and heat, according to material evidence, a great many people still attribute these conditions to the inscrutable decrees of Providence, while others seek to account for them, though not very satisfactorily it must be confessed, from the standpoint of belief in material law.