Editorials

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BOARD OF LECTURESHIP

Mary Baker Eddy

Beloved Students:—I am more than satisfied with your work: its grandeur almost surprises me.

SONSHIP

Annie M. Knott

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE has for nearly half a century been revealing to humanity in a new and most vital way the privilege of sonship to God, and it has had to do this in the face of a false sense of man's relation to his heavenly Father.

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DRUGS OR DIVINITY?

John B. Willis

There are not a few beginners in Christian Science who are puzzled when called on to explain how cures are effected by the use of drugs, and one such has recently asked, "If the worth of things is to be determined by their fruits, and some material remedies have brought health as certainly as has Christian Science, according to the testimony of those benefited, why should not the good of both be recognized and accepted?

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ONE GOD, ONE POWER

Archibald McLellan

In the chapter, "Animal Magnetism Unmasked," in Science and Health, on page 102, Mrs.

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OUR ADEQUATE SUPPORT

John B. Willis

Basic truths are always universal, they refuse to be compassed by the specific.

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TRUTH'S STANDARD

Annie M. Knott

A man may think he can choose his own standard of living, as to right or wrong doing, with some popular virtues to balance certain vices deemed necessary adjuncts of mortal existence; yet this can never satisfy any one, for the simple reason that an inflexible standard always has existed and always will, and Christ Jesus stated it in unequivocal terms when he said, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

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"TREASURE IN HEAVEN."

Archibald McLellan

When Christ Jesus said, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," he doubtless recognized that he was setting a standard of conduct which only the greatest measure of love, goodness, wisdom, intelligence, and understanding could look forward to as the manifestation of man in the image and likeness of God.

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INSPIRATION, HOW GAINED

Annie M. Knott

In the book of Job we are told that "the inspiration of the Almighty" giveth men understanding, and Christian Science would add that no true understanding can be gained in any other way than by divine inspiration.

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AS MASTERS, NOT SERVANTS

John B. Willis

Christ Jesus lived the ideally free life.

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"AND BE YE THANKFUL."

Archibald McLellan

At the annual meeting of The Mother Church, held this week, it was stated by the clerk, in his report, that the number of persons admitted to membership in the church during the year just closed was greater than ever before in any year of its history; also, that the number admitted at the semiannual admission of members on May 30 of this year was the largest number received at any one time since the church was formed.

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ATTENTION

Editor

Will our readers kindly bear in mind that the work at headquarters is necessarily divided into departments, and that correspondence properly addressed will avoid delay.

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MANHOOD'S CALL

John B. Willis

The greatest word of prophecy was not the forecast of future events, not the commendation or condemnation of conduct, but the disclosure of the nature and ministry of man as God's image and representative.