Editorials

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"Doers of the word"

Archibald McLellan

"Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only," was the counsel of the apostle James to the early Christian church, counsel that is equally applicable to professed Christians in all ages and which if heeded would have revolutionized the world long since.
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"Our refuge and strength"

John B. Willis

On page 366 of Science and Health Mrs.
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Wherewithal Shall We Be Fed?

Annie M. Knott

Many of those who seek relief from suffering through Christian Science find that the understanding of Truth transforms human experience, makes all things new.
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"In sacred confidence"

Archibald McLellan

It is well understood by most persons that there is a confidential relationship established between lawyer and client, physician and patient, clergyman and parishioner, which precludes the lawyer, physician, or clergyman from disclosing to other persons the information communicated to him in the course of this relationship.
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Transformation

Annie M. Knott

That a great change is needed in human character, individual and collective, few would deny, even if the demand were pressed home in each case; but there would doubtless be great diversity of opinion as to how this needed improvement can be effected, and few would be willing to meet unshrinkingly the divine requirement, which never stops short of perfection.
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Habitual Meditation

John B. Willis

He who enters the hospitable courts of Richmond Hill, the center of Wesleyan mission work at Point de Galle, Ceylon, will come upon many interesting things in addition to one of the finest views in all "The Pearl of India.
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"An opening wedge"

Archibald McLellan

A great deal has been alleged and a great deal denied as to what the attitude of the so-called allopathic physicians would be toward all other practitioners of healing whom they might consider competitors, in case they should succeed in obtaining the legislation which ostensibly as public benefactors they have so ardently and strenuously advocated.
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Consenting unto Death

John B. Willis

In his splendidly daring self-defense before Festus, Felix, and Agrippa, St.
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Faith Not Credulity

Annie M. Knott

There are perhaps not many who take the trouble to discriminate between faith and mere credulity, which is defined as "a disposition to believe on slight evidence.
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Educating the Public

Archibald McLellan

Efforts of the doctors to bring about compulsory medical examination of school children and others are not on the wane, and it is quite evident from newspaper reports that where they have succeeded in having this work done, little if any regard has been paid to the wishes and protests of parents, or even to the simple dictates of modesty.
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Trust and Foresight

Annie M.Knott

Many good people are apt to think of trust in God, which is urged upon us in the Scriptures, as a somewhat negative mental quality, a condition of thought which relieves one of all responsibility either at the present time or in the future.
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Evil Has No Cycle

John B. Willis

Good endureth from generation to generation, and its modus alone can have permanence, prove an unbroken chain, and establish that legitimate law of heredity under which like produces like.