Editorials

Not Death, but Life

Archibald McLellan

Quite recently the attention of passers-by was attracted by the announcement, on a bulletin board at a church door, of a sermon about to be preached, under this title, "Death, God's Gift to Man.

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There are very few Christian people who have a clear sense of the relation between the letter and the spirit of Christianity, and many are apt to speak of the former in a rather derogatory way as if it were something to be avoided.

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Prejudice

John B. Willis

All who betake themselves to meditation upon human affairs will find occasion to note how much of crude misjudgement is born of the careless assumption which presumptuously leaps to conclusions that, perchance, result in a cruel injury.

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Progression

Archibald McLellan

When Some seven years ago the Sentinel enlarged its borders, four pages of reading matter being added and a new cover design adopted, it seemed as if the acme of excellence in service to the field had been reached, but it will be noticed that with this first issue of its sixteenth year our weekly paper has taken on a typographical appearance somewhat changed for the better we believe, and one which it is hoped will be even more satisfactory to its steadily enlarging circle of readers, as we have adopted the same face of type for this paper as that used in the Journal, beginning with the April, 1912, number.

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"THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY."

Annie M. Knott

In the nineteenth chapter of Revelation we read that an angel said to John, "The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

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"MY STRENGTH."

John B. Willis

The dominant sense of mortal experience is that of inadequacy, weakness.

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THE CALL OF TRUTH

Archibald McLellan

Our Master, when questioned as to which was the greatest or most important of the commandments, declared that "all the law and the prophets" were included in the commandment to love God supremely and one's neighbor as himself.

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THE CHRIST-COMING

John B. Willis

Mortal sense is gregarious; it loves to live in the mass as well as to think in platitudes.

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MODERATION

Annie M. Knott

The dictionaries describe a moderate man as one who is "not extreme, excessive;" as one who is "temperate, calm, reasonable, gentle;" and St.

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"BE THOU CLEAN"

Archibald McLellan

It sometimes happens that persons who have tried in vain to be healed through medical treatment, perhaps at much expense and with much suffering because of the means employed, and who have as a last resort turned to Christian Science, cherish a strong sense of resentment not only toward the system which had failed to relieve them from their ills, but also toward those through whom it had been employed.

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SCIENTIFIC RULES

Annie M. Knott

Throughout Mrs.

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THE WAYSHOWER

John B. Willis

Nothing is more clearly taught by Christ Jesus than that a knowledge of God embraces and sums up one's promise and possession of eternal life: that the true consciousness is a God-consciousness; and this fact gives the greatest possible weight to the question whether our acquaintance with Him whom the Master taught us to think of as "the Father" is steadily increasing.