Editorials

Editorial

Practical Christianity

Archibald McLellan

For centuries humanity has more or less uncomplainingly submitted to the yoke of bondage imposed by its beliefs that evil is practically unescapable in human experience, and that sickness and death are as much a part of this human experience as are the hours of the day and the days of the year.
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A Talking Serpent

Annie M. Knott

The third chapter of Genesis is of profound interest to the student of Christian Science, who gathers from it wonderful lessons by the aid of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
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Refuge in God

John B. Willis

In an important sense, the entire philosophy and teaching of Christian Science is summed up and expressed in the deeper meaning of that single declaration of the psalmist, "God is our refuge and strength.
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Not an Exclusive Privilege

Archibald McLellan

One of the almost threadbare criticisms of Christian Science which is brought forward more or less regularly, is that which assumes the followers of this religion are guilty of impiety and almost blasphemy, because they believe that sickness not only may be, but is, healed today through the practice of Christianity, just as "all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people" was healed by Christ Jesus nineteen hundred years ago.
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Health Contagious

Annie M. Knott

The belief that evil is contagious is firmly rooted in the thought of most people, whether it relates to moral or physical conditions.
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Truth the Foundation

John B. Willis

The well known adage "Physician, heal thyself," expresses a thought of peculiar pertinence to all professing Christian Scientists.
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Love's Guiding Hand

Archibald McLellan

Although the Church Manual is addressed primarily to members of The Mother Church, and is of course mandatory only on those who are within its jurisdiction, it will be well for all who aspire to be Christian Scientists to give earnest heed to its prohibitions and to be guided by its loving counsels.
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The Peace of Good

John B. Willis

That there can be any least disharmony in the realm of Truth is simply unthinkable to those who believe in the God and Father revealed in Jesus Christ.
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"A living sacrifice"

Annie M. Knott

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Abundance of Good

Archibald McLellan

As this number of the Sentinel goes to press, the annual meeting of The Mother Church is being held, and Christian Scientists throughout the world will read with rejoicing the report of this meeting, which will appear in our next issue, because more than ever before they have reason to thank God for His abounding goodness.
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Saving Goodness

John B. Willis

No forest monarch figures more prominently, perhaps, in Scripture than the fir-tree, and all wood-lovers will recognize how fittingly it stands for true greatness, for the union of strength and sweetness.
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Troubled Waters

Archibald McLellan

It is well sometimes, when to human sense a storm of discord is raging and the troubled waters threaten to engulf everything in one tremendous tidal wave, to give ourselves pause long enough to remember that God still commands the winds and the waves, and that the "Peace, be still," of the Master was meant for the comfort and solace of anxious hearts in all times and places.