Editorials

Humanity

Annie M. Knott

Christian Science does not, as some mistakenly suppose, deny to humanity the rights and privileges of God's children, but establishes these upon a sure foundation in getting rid of all erroneous concepts of man's being and of his relation to God.

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Good the Only Power

Archibald McLellan

In something like a half score instances in Science and Health, Mrs.

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Truth and Truthfulness

Annie M. Knott

There are perhaps very few who realize the actual value of truth in every phase of human experience, and fewer still who would admit that mortals cannot in the strictest sense speak the truth, for the simple reason that spiritual sense is needed in order to know the truth about anything.

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Unfailing Joy

John B. Willis

In the presence of an international conflict which threatens to engulf the Christian world with a tidal wave of suffering and unhappiness, many may be led to doubt the possibility of being obedient to St.

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"Omnipotent and omniscient Mind"

Archibald McLellan

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Our Leader's Hymns

Editor

Occasionally the question is asked from various parts of the field, as to how frequently our Leader's hymns should be sung in the church services.

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An Opened Door

John B. Willis

How pleasant it is, these summer days, to think of the many long-confined workers who in their turn are reveling in the freedom of the woods and fields and sky! The plea for escape from drudgery, the privilege of action that is impelled by natural impulse and not by grim necessity,—how instinctive and normal it is! More than this, how universal and appealing its protest against the saddening fact that there are so many faithful and worthy toilers to whom a vacation is quite unknown! Surely nothing can add a sweeter note to the Christian Scientist's outing program than the consciousness that with his own hands, in kindly, generous ways, he has provided some "shut-in," for a little time at least, with the sweet sunlight and fragrant air of a larger life.

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Chastisement

Annie M. Knott

Chastisement is a term little understood, even by Christian people who are familiar with the Scriptural references to it.

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"Not the author of sickness"

Archibald McLellan

An article which recently appeared in The Churchman, gives such evidence of a change in the beliefs of Christians about the responsibility of God for the sicknesses and distresses of mankind, that we are impelled to quote from it as follows:—

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Words of Counsel

Mary Baker G. Eddy

The following heretofore unpublished letter from our revered Leader to the Christian Science Board of Directors, is herewith shared with the whole field because of its wise counsel to all Christian Scientists.

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"Awake thou"

John B. Willis

The primary and most pressing need of the average man is this: that he resist the temptation to mental torpidity; and this is the appeal of Christian Science.

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"Invisible things"

Annie M. Knott

In Paul's epistles there are several references to "invisible things.