Editorials

"SINCERITY AND TRUTH"

Annie M. Knott

The apostle Paul directs thought away from creed and ritual, even from that which meant so much to his coreligionists, namely, the passover, with its unleavened bread; and he tells them of a better way to keep the feast, which is to get rid of the "leaven of malice and wickedness," and to partake of "the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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"REAL STRENGTH"

Archibald McLellan

In every movement, whether it be religious or otherwise, there is a tendency to gage its success wholly from the material standpoint, that is, to measure its importance by its numerical, social, or financial strength; and this all too common tendency, so far as it has a bearing on Christianity, is recognized and rebuked in a recent issue of the British Congregationalist, from which we quote the following paragraph:—

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UNDERSTANDING

Annie M. Knott

ALL through the Scriptures great emphasis is laid upon the need of understanding, the fervent prayer of the psalmist, "Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart," being specially worthy of our consideration.

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ORDER AND SOVEREIGNTY

John B. Willis

UPON the material plane there can be no pearl without an oyster; the little jelly-like animal seems absolutely necessary to the production of this gently-lighted gem.

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CIVIC DUTY

Archibald McLellan

IN these days when things political seem to loom largely in the national horizon, the welfare of the people at large rightly commands something more than a passing interest from every good citizen, a class from which Christian Scientists are by no means excluded, as throughout Mrs.

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SERVICE AND AT-ONE-MENT

John B. Willis

The statement by an earnest Christian Scientist that he thought of himself only as the conductor through which "the water of life" reached his patients, expressed in a forcefully commonplace fashion his faith in God as the only healer, and his joyous realization of the abundance of that living stream of which if a man drink he "shall never thirst.

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REMISSION

Annie M. Knott

There are some who fail to understand the teaching of Christian Science relative to sin, and who therefore quarrel with their own misconceptions; but all honest seekers after truth soon discover that Christian Science declares sin and all discord to be unreal because God is not their author, and St.

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"FEED MY SHEEP"

Archibald McLellan

The coincidence and correlation of profession and practise was insisted upon by the Master from the very beginning of his ministry, and he himself set an example in this respect which, had it been consistently followed in the succeeding centuries, could but have long since revolutionized the world and redeemed it both physically and morally.

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BUILDING

Annie M. Knott

As one goes through the streets of any of the older American cities at this period, he cannot help noticing the work which is being done in the removal of certain buildings to make way for other and presumably better structures.

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HEROISM AND SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION

John B. Willis

So much of history and of personal experience witnesses to the sordid commonplaceness of men, their apparently contented absorption in selfish satisfactions, that it is not difficult to account for the cynical skepticism which accepts the naturalness of the ignoble, and acts habitually on the assumption that "every man has his price.

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TRUTH'S SUPREMACY

Archibald McLellan

One of the most common and yet in a way most unexplainable misunderstandings of Christian Science, in view of its continued and multiplying demonstrations of the truth it teaches, is that it is but a system of mind-cure, in which the healing is supposedly effected by "concentrating" the thought of the practitioner, and correspondingly "distracting" the thought of the patient.

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DEATHLESS LIFE

John B. Willis

Speaking of the heresy of death-worship as having supplanted the doctrine of the resurrection with very many Christian believers, a prominent American clergyman is reported to have said recently: "The Scripture teaches that 'we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; but it does not therefore thrust its writ of ejection into our hands as our greatest consolation.