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OPINION VS. DEMONSTRATION

Annie M. Knott

In Science and Health we find this clear-cut statement: "In Christian Science mere opinion is valueless," to which Mrs.

Each year, in the month of September, by common consent the activities of the board of lectureship of The Mother Church, in the exercise of its mission to mankind, are again set in motion, and the great good which the work of this board is accomplishing again becomes apparent to Christian Scientists.

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TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS

Annie M. Knott

It is sometimes asked whether Mind is ever unconscious in its operations, and there need be no difficulty in answering this question if the Mind which is God is understood to be the only Mind, as we learn in Christian Science.

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SEEKING FOR ORIGIN

John B. Willis

Every-day experience has to do in large part with things as human sense finds them, and the great majority even of professed Christians accept the so-called common-sense, materialistic view of substance, and contentedly trudge along in this "broad" mortal way.

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"BE NOT AFRAID."

Archibald McLellan

How often, when seemingly overwhelmed by threatening danger, the terror-stricken one has longed to hear spoken to him those words of glad assurance that came to the little group of disciples in the ship, as they watched in the dawning light one who was approaching them across the tossing waters.

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"HAVING DONE ALL, TO STAND."

John B. Willis

Literature presents no finer appeal to schooled manliness than that found in the sixth chapter of St.

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ERROR UNREAL

Annie M. Knott

It is now very well known that the fundamental proposition of Mrs.

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HEALING A CHRISTIAN DUTY

Archibald McLellan

One of our contemporaries—an organ of one of the oldest religious bodies—recently said, in a discussion of the works of spiritual healing which are being done outside the pale of such religious organizations as the one it represents: "None of these cults have any ecclesiastical sanction, and yet they are undertaking to do what the church in the earlier days carried forward as a part of the gospel mission, bringing healing to the body as well as peace to the mind, and salvation to the soul, and so promoting a 'wholeness without which no man shall see the Lord.

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TODAY'S BLESSINGS

ANNIE M. KNOTT

In the Lamentations of Jeremiah, we find in the midst of his sorrowful musings a declaration that the divine mercy and compassion are "new every morning," a statement which recalls the oft-quoted words of our revered Leader that open the Preface to Science and Health: "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

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"IF IT BE OF GOD.'

ARCHIBALD MCLELLAN

Thanks to the wide-spread publicity which is today accorded to Christian Science, both by its friends and quite unintentionally by its opponents, it is only occasionally that this practical and demonstrable religion is mistakenly denominated as "neither Christian nor scientific.

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THE UNFAILING STREAM

JOHN B. WILLIS

Few subjects are more frequently mentioned today by those interested in the welfare of mankind, than that of irrigation, since for many and vast regions of the earth it means the possible change of uninhabitable stretches of sand into luxuriant farms and gardens.

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LOVE AND LAW

John B. Willis

The first and most important thing for every little one to learn, is the unyielding nature of true love, and the future of the child whose parents are not wise enough or not strong enough to impart this lesson, is apt to bring him unhappiness if not defeat.