Editorials

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Concentration

Annie M. Knott

In Science and Health we are told that as the sun is the center of our planetary system, so God is "the central Life and intelligence around which circle harmoniously all things in the systems of Mind".
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"Be strong and of a good courage"

Archibald McLellan

On page 147 of this issue we quote from The Christian Science Monitor a report of an important step by which the trust created by Mrs.
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"Many mansions"

Annie M. Knott

It was the Master, who never disdained to appeal to the human sense by means of some familiar figure, who spoke to his disciples of the "many mansions" of the Father's house.
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"No man can serve two"

John B. Willis

"When I am sick, I take the best remedy I know of, and then get down on my knees and pray God to bless it to my relief; and as I see it, this is the sensible thing to do.
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Demonstrable Knowledge

Archibald McLellan

A subject which has been much discussed for years, not only in the secular press but in the religious press as well, is the alleged failure of the Christian church of today to accomplish that for which it stands and for which its various denominations were organized by those whose yearnings Godward made them dissatisfied, or rather unsatisfied, with the practical results already achieved by organized religious effort.
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Human Tendency Redeemed

John B. Willis

Students of human nature speedily discover that the conduct of most people is far more frequently determined by a habit or tendency than by a sense of duty or of right.
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Faith and Intelligence

Annie M. Knott

Strangely enough, apart from the teachings of Christian Science, faith and intelligence are not supposed to have any direct relation to each other, and this explains to large extent the antagonism to Christian Science expressed by many who suppose that the faith which it inculcates is divorced from intelligence.
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"Wise as serpents"

Archibald McLellan

It would almost seem that Christian Scientists have need to ponder daily the Master's warning to the little band of disciples whom he sent out "to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick," Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves;" for if one may judge by the letters and circulars received by practitioners whose cards appear in the Journal, there is an impression abroad that Christian Scientists are liberally supplied with money.
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Apparel

Annie M. Knott

The subject of apparel is often presented in the Scriptures, showing that from the earliest times mankind have considered clothing to be as necessary as food, a fact which Jesus commented upon in his Sermon on the Mount, when he bade his followers to take no thought for either, but to seek "first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness" and that then all these things would be "added.
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From the Passing to the Permanent

John B. Willis

No thoughtful observer of the marvelously varied tints with which the hedges and hillsides are reporting autumn's advance, these days, can fail to understand the saying of one that he could never look upon the fading of nature's beauty, whether in the heart of a flower or in the face of a child, without a sense of sadness.
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A Dual Mission

Archibald McLellan

By far the greater part of the unnecessary opposition which attends the demonstration of the healing truth discovered by Mrs.
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The Vision of Man

John B. Willis

more surely determines what we are than an impelling sense of what we may become.