Editorials

Editorial

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.
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Who Shall Stand?

Annie M. Knott

It is said that the twenty-fourth psalm was written to celebrate the triumphal entry of David and his followers into Jerusalem, the last stronghold of the Jebusites to be given up.
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"Radical reliance on Truth"

Archibald McLellan

Christian Scientists rightfully complain of those critics of Mrs.
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Mastery

Annie M. Knott

Most Christian people are familiar with Paul's statement, "Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things;" to which he adds that those to whom he chiefly referred, the Roman soldiers with whom he had been so closely associated during his two years' imprisonment in the fortress at Caesarea, did this "to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
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Our Larger Privilege

John B. Willis

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