Editorials

Editorial

"Perfect models"

Annie M. Knott

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Truth, Selective and Saving

John B. Willis

To see a great magnet gather the nails and other bits of metal out of the rubbish of a steel mill, is to witness a wonderful question-awakening phenomenon, and find an illuminating illustration of the selective drawing-power of the spiritually-minded, the men and women who, securely linked to God, are expressing that discriminating activity of divine Love which is no less considerate and judician than it is outreaching and irresistible.
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Why Not Evangelical?

Archibald McLellan

About every so often, we hear of an incident through which the pronouncement goes forth from some one in a representative capacity for some denomination, that the Christian Science church is not evangelical.
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Winsomeness

John B. Willis

The burden of St.
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Leaders and Followers

Annie M. Knott

In ancient times, as we read in the Scriptures, spiritual leaders were chosen from among the people to make known to them the divine purpose and power, and to inspire them with a desire to obey the divine will.
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"Yea, yea" and "Nay, nay"

Archibald Mclellan

In the Foreword to "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," written in 1906, there are a number of significant declarations in regard to the establishment by Mrs.
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Watchfulness

Annie M. Knott

All through the Scriptures are admonitions to watchfulness, and nowhere do we find greater emphasis placed upon it than in the Master's own teachings, the nature of his warnings being twofold.
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Progress and the New Year

John B. Willis

Some one has well said that "the new year should be a spiritual renaissance.
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World Righteousness and Peace

Archibald McLellan

The individuality and universality of righteousness which is to usher in a world peace, the time when "every knee shall bow.
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Atonement

John B. Willis

The greatest possible contribution to the settlement of theological problems is found in the teaching of Christian Science that the rational and demonstrably true interpretation of the Scripture must in every instance begin with God, and that it must consent to no concepts which are out of harmony with His ideal and infinite nature.
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Christmas Lessons

Annie M. Knott

With most of us, especially those who are no longer children, Christmas is a retrospective season, and we are apt to compare the past with the present, possibly to indulge in vain regrets for the days that are gone, when perchance the good we then had was little appreciated.
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"Yesterday, and today, and forever"

Archibald McLellan

Without any disparagement of the good things directly within their own sphere of action, and the multitudinous efforts for social betterment which the churches find themselves called upon to advocate from their pulpits, we quote as follows from an editorial which appeared recently in the Kennebec Journal of Augusta, Maine:—