Editorials

Shifting Sands

Archibald McLellan

Only a few years ago, people were taught to believe that sewer-gas was a dangerous and dreaded foe to the health of mankind.

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Thought and Thinking

Annie M. Knott

Students of Christian Science soon become familiar with the fact that thought represents the activity of mind, and that as a man thinketh, "so is he.

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In his teaching that God is Love, the Master spoke not only for the essential nature of Deity, but, since love is revealed and discerned only in loving deeds, he spoke for the fact that this nature is disclosed in its activities.

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"Until the harvest"

Archibald McLellan

When the Master explained the parable of the wheat and the tares to his disciples, they must have been greatly impressed with his wisdom.

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"Search the scriptures"

Annie M. Knott

In the fifth chapter of John's gospel we read, "Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life".

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Patriotism

John B. Willis

Thoughtful people cannot fail to be impressed with the exhibition of so-called patriotism upon every occurrence of actual or even prospective war.

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So-called Preventive Medicine

Archibald McLellan

The aggressiveness of the demand on the part of the advocates of so-called preventive medicine, that all mankind must, willy-nilly, be brought under their control and subjected to examination, was recently rebuked by The Evening Post of New York as follows:—

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"The measure of a man"

Annie M. Knott

In the twenty-first chapter of Revelation, where we find a description of the ideal city, we read of "the measure of a man.

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Come Ye Apart

John B. Willis

Christian Scientists who have awakened to the disabling effects of the mesmerism of massed personality, can understand why Christ Jesus should have said to his disciples, "Come ye yourselves apart," and why the good and great have ever been impelled to withdraw from the world at frequent intervals, and find in meditative solitude the poise, inspiration, and strength they may need.

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"Seeking his own in another's good"

Archibald McLellan

Even in the early days of Christian Science, Mrs.

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Giving No Offense

John B. Willis

No habit is more easily acquired than that of speaking without knowledge respecting the character and purpose of others, and yet those who thus thoughtlessly contribute to the circulation of unloving and unfair if not slanderous comment, are guilty of an offense which receives quite as much attention at the hands of the Mosaic decalogue as does the crime of homicide.

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New Blessings

Annie M. Knott

Christian Science brings to mankind a demand for unceasing progress, and this is a surprise to some, who think that because God's work is perfect and complete, there is no need for us to press forward.