Editorials

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"The prayer of faith"

Archibald McLellan

Many of the criticisms of Christian Science have been based upon the supposition that the healing work which characterized the ministry of Christ Jesus and the early Christians was simply a special gift for a limited time and a limited purpose.
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Faith versus Fear

Annie M. Knott

Many good Christian people have called attention to the numerous occasions where the command "Fear not" is found in the Bible, especially in connection with the teachings of Christ Jesus.
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Truth's Sufficiency

John B. Willis

To those who in fancied security looked down from the walls of Jericho, the strange doings of the undrilled, unmunitioned host of Israel must have seemed the folly of fools.
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Impersonal Correction

Archibald McLellan

Frequently the editors of the Sentinel and Journal are asked to answer questions in regard to the teachings of Christian Science as applied to given phases of human experience.
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True Brotherliness

John B. Willis

The Scripture saying, "None of us liveth to himself," has always been seen to be ethically true, and today it is becoming manifest that it is also economically true; that is to say, the Christian call to fraternalism is being enforced by the requirements of self-protection.
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"Pay thy debt"

Annie M. Knott

In the fourth chapter of II Kings we find the beautiful story of the widow who in her deep trouble went, not to a money-lender, but to Elisha the prophet, of whose spiritual power she was not ignorant; for even at that early day it was recognized that knowledge is power.
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Practical Preaching

Archibald McLellan

The fact that church attendance has so largely fallen off in late years has greatly disturbed church people, and many have been the expedients tried for the purpose of reversing this condition, the latest being the "Go-to-church Sunday" movement which is now holding the attention and the hopes of so many religious people.
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Perfection

Annie M. Knott

It is simply astonishing how the demand for perfection is resisted by mortals.
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Why Trouble Ye Me?

John B. Willis

"Oh , well, what's the use! What difference does it make whether you call something matter or the projection of a false belief?
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Not Words, but Deeds

Archibald McLellan

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"Think on these things"

John B. Willis

The vigor and commercial progressiveness of the western world, the abandon with which great business enterprises are entered into, and the ever-increasing habits of luxurious living with their multiplying demands for sense excitation,—all these certainly tend to relegate the cultivation of the meditative mood to the background.
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Redemption

Annie M. Knott

The word redemption, as understood in Christian Science, gains new significance and value as the spiritual process indicated by It becomes better understood.