Editorials

Who Shall Stand?

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.

"Radical reliance on Truth"

Christian Scientists rightfully complain of those critics of Mrs.

Mastery

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.

Our Larger Privilege

Mrs.

"Deliver us from evil"

Answering the questions, "What is error?

"The sea is his"

Unnumbered people, these home-coming days, are bringing back to the "trivial round, the common task," abiding memories of the vacation's indulgence of what they would call a "passion for the sea," and the weariness and possible pain of the months to come will be lessened as winged remembrance bears them again and again to the sunny sand or the pine-clad promontory where they lounged and looked for many a long hour upon that ever-changing, ever-beautiful expanse,—heaven's floor of answering blue.

Neglect Inadmissible

A great deal is said at the present time respecting the wrongfulness of neglect, especially of one's health.

Not Death, but Life

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.

Letter and Spirit

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.

Prejudice

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.

Progression

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.

"THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY."

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