Editorials

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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.
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Thinking Rightly

Archibald McLellan

It is gratifying to note, as a sign of the times, that many people are recognizing not only the futility but also the harmfulness and bad taste of indulging one of the stock subjects of general conversation, namely, descriptions of the ills "that flesh is heir to.
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Healing of Dishonesty

John B. Willis

Speaking of the more immediate effects of Christian Science, Mrs.
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Law a Power

Annie M. Knott

Few people would be willing to deny the power of law, however understood, but there would doubtless be great diversity of opinion as to how this power could be proved.
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"Honor to whom honor is due"

Archibald McLellan

On page 148 of "Miscellaneous Writings" there appears an extract from a letter by Mrs.