Editorials

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Harvest Lessons

Annie M. Knott

The great Teacher had much to say about sowing and reaping, and it is well for us to cling to the fact that the good seed and its fruitage were given first place in his discourses and their permanence was shown.
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"Out of the depths"

John B. Willis

No one can familiarize himself with the book of Isaiah without being impressed that he has come into touch with a man of remarkable vision, one whose spiritual intuition was no less authoritative than rare.
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"I press toward the mark"

Archibald McLellan

There is a tendency at times, with some Christian Scientists, in their honest desire to make known what great things Truth has done for them, to hark back too persistently to the past, to recall and rehearse with painstaking detail the sufferings endured or the trails undergone, until quite unawares both narrator and listener have etched upon their consciousness as a vivid reality thoughts which are as an open door inviting the return of the illusion of sickness or sin.
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"And greatly to be praised"

John B. Willis

"Wonderful ! How wonderful!" All were looking out of the car windows, feasting upon the beauty that lay like a radiant sunset upon the woods.
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Differing View-points

Annie M. Knott

A Study of the book of Acts and of the various epistles reveals the fact that considerable time and growth in grace were needed in order to reconcile the differing views of those who were at that day accepting Christianity.
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Freedom in the Truth

Archibald McLellan

To the Christian Scientist all right thinking, all real progress, and all that makes for the good of humanity is the manifestation of infinite Mind, God.
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"Christ in you"

Annie M. Knott

It doubtless called for great daring on the part of St.
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The Heart of Things

John B. Willis

No one can think of the unprofitableness of most of the things which consume humanity's attention, and at the same time have some sense of the seriousness of the problems which we are called upon to solve in this life, without feeling that waste of time and opportunity assumes, with the many, the semblance of a crime.
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Medical Encroachment

Archibald McLellan

Within the past few years propaganda in behalf of enforced medical inspection and medical control of the people has assumed such proportions and developed such arrogant disregard of personal rights, as to call forth protest from even those who believe in medical practice.
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"As thyself"

John B. Willis

Despite all the confusions of Christian belief, the timidities and manifest uncertainties of the many who are sincerely seeking to be guided of God, it still remains true that the divine address to human sense is so specific as to render the misapprehension of essential duties quite impossible.
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"The Lamb of God"

Annie M. Knott

The spiritual signification of Scripture, rising above the material, is illustrated in the first chapter of the fourth gospel, where we find John's characterization of Jesus in these words : "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
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The Healing Word

Archibald McLellan

It is a stock criticism of Christian Science that too much attention is given by the adherents of this religion to the exploitation of the healing of the sick.