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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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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.

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THE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE

John B. Willis

In studying the Old Testament one is impressed with the frequency with which sacrifice is referred to as a giving up of good for God.

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THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Archibald McLellan

A few weeks ago the News-Democrat of Canton, Ohio, did a fine and helpful thing—something that most newspapers would think could not be done in these days when "business is business" and the material rather than the spiritual is thought by so many to be of most importance.

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LOVE'S EXALTATION

John B. Willis

In his thrice-repeated inquiry of Peter, "Lovest thou me?

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MISUNDERSTANDINGS HEALED

Annie M. Knott

The earliest record of misunderstandings which we have is that found in Genesis, where we read that the people were building a tower, intended to reach heaven, and that the Lord came from the sky to see what they were doing and said, "Let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

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"LOVE ONE ANOTHER."

Archibald McLellan

It is quite as difficult today to reconcile the differences which sometimes seem to exist between those of the same "household of faith," in family, business, social, or church relations, with their attitude of professed Christians, as it must have been for the apostle John when he penned the keen rebuke we find in his first epistle: "If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?