Editorials

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WAR AND PEACE

John B. Willis

Though named in prophecy "The Prince of Peace," and thus heralded at his birth by angelic choirs, Christ Jesus frankly declared that he came "not to send peace, but a sword;" and with his own trial and crucifixion there was inaugurated a world-strife which has left its record upon every page of history, and which today is seething to a tidal crest whose threatenings can but seem alarming to the timid and tired of heart.
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A SURFEIT OF CIRCULARS

Archibald McLellan

We are frequently asked by our friends in the field to write editorials dealing with this or that subject of general or special interest.
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"YE ARE GODS"

John B. Willis

Nothing of all Jesus said was more irritating to the Jews than his self-identification with God, and though manifestly impelled in their cruel determinations by pride and prejudice, this was their avowed reason to Pilate for demanding his crucifixion.
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TRUTH RETAINED

Annie M. Knott

It needs but little argument to convince a truly thoughtful man or woman that those experiences alone are worth remembering which lift us above the mortal sense of things with gleams of light that hint at immortal realities, and it matters little what these "gleams of glory" cost us in the mental throes which prepare us to see the light.
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IMMORTALITY

Archibald McLellan

No greater hope dwells in the breast of mankind than that of immortality, and no clearer statement of the possibility and modus of immortality was ever made than is afforded by the words of Christ Jesus when he said, "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
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THE LORD'S PRAYER

Annie M. Knott

There are no Christian people who give greater prominence to the Lord's Prayer in their devotions than do Christian Scientists, and respecting it their Leader says that it "covers all human needs".
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THE TRUTH THAT SAVES

John B. Willis

Christ Jesus effectively portrayed both the privilege and the need of mankind in his teaching that freedom and well-being are to be gained by increase of knowledge.
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A RESTORER OF HEALTH

Archibald McLellan

We note in the January Twentieth Century Magasine a short article by Dr.
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THE CHRISTIAN GENTLE-MAN

John B. Willis

He who said that "the true priest and prophet today must be every inch a man and a gentleman," expressed a clear discernment of the world's forever need.
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SPIRITUAL WORSHIP

Annie M. Knott

There are many who wonder why so long a period should have been given to the moral and spiritual education of the Hebrew nation by means of forms, ceremonies, and sacrifices.
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"WHICH GIVETH US THE VICTORY"

Archibald McLellan

Christian Science teaches unequivocally that sin, disease, and death are but different phases of the one evil against which its followers have enlisted, and that, therefore, these would-be destroyers of the peace and happiness of mankind are not to be submitted to, but that a vigorous warfare is to be waged against them to their ultimate overcoming; that this victory is not to be won by the weapons of material warfare, but through spiritual means, through consistent and persistent adherence to the truth of God's omnipotence and allness and an equally forceful denial of any and all claims of evil to place or power.
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"LIKENESS"

Annie M. Knott

Not so many years ago, there were not many religious people who ever thought that man's likeness to God was other than a bodily likeness; in fact, they argued that inasmuch as man's likeness to God is declared in the first chapter of Genesis, God must be corporeal, because mortals are so.