Editorials

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"One grand brotherhood"

Archibald McLellan

Reading the very many expressions of gratitude that have come from those whose necessities have been met in a measure through the war relief fund subscribed by Christian Scientists in the United States, one can but look upon this endeavor as an exemplification of the teaching found on page 518 of Science and Health: "The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good.
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Identity in Christ

John B. Willis

The Messianic psalms of David, and the wondrous prophecies of Isaiah and other Old Testament worthies, focused the spiritual aspiration and communal hope of the Hebrews upon a messenger of God who was to be both their leader and savior.
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Our "high goal"

Annie M. Knott

We can never afford to lose sight of the goal, which is spiritual perfection, and which we can never reach until we are willing to take all the steps demanded by wisdom and Love, though these call for constant self-denial, as our Master taught.
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Fulfilling the Law

Archibald McLellan

On page 38 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs.
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"Look unto me"

Annie M. Knott

In the olden time, when the children of Israel were on the way to the land which to them was a type of man's divine inheritance, they were warned by Moses never to stray from the straight and narrow path of Truth.
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Knowledge and Expression

John B. Willis

The teaching of Christian Science vigorously demands that union of spiritual knowledge and its ideal expression which is portrayed in the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians.
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Mental Trespass

Archibald McLellan

It is surely commendable, and wise withal, that the Christian Science practitioner should endeavor in his treatment of the sick to be governed by the rules of practice laid down by Mrs.
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"Be not faithless"

John B. Willis

In reading the story of Thomas' unbelief one is impressed with the wilfulness of his doubt, with the wretchedness of the dejection and discouragement into which it must have plunged him, and with the gentleness and pertinence of the Master's rebuke, "Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
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Truth's Power

Annie M. Knott

There is perhaps no passage of Scripture which is so much loved and so often quoted by Christian Scientists as the Master's words, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
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"The Christian's vital breath"

Archibald McLellan

Nowhere is there to be found a stronger refutation of the claim that is even now occasionally put forward, namely, that Christian Scientists do not pray, than is given on page 133 of "Miscellaneous Writings," where Mrs.
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Immortal Qualities

Annie M. Knott

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE enables its student to distinguish clearly between that which really express Life and that which does not; in other words, between the true and the seeming.
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Gladness and Gain

John B. Willis

Among Old Testament worthies there is no more interesting figure than that of David, the story of whose youth is a romance, of his manhood a tragedy, of his old age an epic.