Editorials

Fulness of Life

John B. Willis

Every one wants to be happy, and though the many have not thought the matter out, there is an indefinite yearning for that fulness, that completion of life which will insure the coveted satisfaction.

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As human thought peers into futurity with a vague, undefined longing to know what it holds for us individually, those who have followed closely the teachings of Christ Jesus ponder his words, "In my Father's house are many mansions," and the related promise, "I go to prepare a place for you.

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Unfounded Criticism

Archibald McLellan

Many of those who array themselves against Christian Science assume to justify their antagonism toward this religion by reason of its teaching that evil is unreal.

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"We would see Jesus"

Annie M. Knott

The twelfth chapter of John's gospel is of the most intense interest to students of Christian Science.

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Patching versus Purification

John B. Willis

Strange as it may appear, the method or modus of spiritual healing seems altogether puzzling to many Christian people.

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"Chance and change"

Archibald McLellan

"Chance and change are busy ever," an old hymn tells us, and the constantly changing beliefs about diseases and their origin which are features of so-called preventive medicine, are well illustrated in a recent editorial in the New York Herald under the title "The Vanishing of the 'Heredity' Specter.

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"Whom Satan hath bound"

John B. Willis

Every question of correction or improvement is, or ought to be, a question of cause and effect.

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Sacraments

Annie M. Knott

Those who attend the Christian Science services will note that the sacrament is observed without the material elements of bread and wine which are used in most of the other Christian churches.

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"In perfect peace"

Archibald McLellan

Recently we called attention to an editorial criticism by the New York World of an address delivered by a physician before a section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in which the speaker was quoted as saying that "when a man of active affairs feels an exuberance of health, and is able to accomplish a greatly increased amount of work without sense of fatigue, he is in danger and should consult a physician.

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Mystery Ended

Annie M. Knott

The human mind has always regarded spiritual things as mysterious, and this fact receives due consideration from prophets, apostles, and Christ Jesus himself.

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"No other gods"

John B. Willis

Nothing could be more definite or more inclusive than the requirement of the first commandment of the decalogue, and nothing more manifest or more lamentable than the universality of mankind's disobedience thereto.

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Overcoming Fear

Archibald McLellan

There is a natural desire on the part of the majority of the beneficiaries of Christian Science to understand why and how it is that they have been healed, even after materia medica has pronounced them hopeless or incurable.