Editorials

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?

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"THE SENSES OF SOUL."

Annie M. Knott

In thinking upon the songs heard by the shepherds on the night of the nativity, these words of our Leader were recalled: "Divine Science reveals sound as communicated through the senses of Soul—through spiritual understanding".

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CANAL ZONE ORDER MODIFIED

Archibald McLellan

The majority of our readers have doubtless noted, through the despatches to the press, that President Taft has so modified the wording of executive order of Oct.

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"IN THE BEGINNING GOD."

John B. Willis

As New Year's day draws nigh, the traditional time for "making another start" in all good endeavor, not a few of us will be visited by the remembrances of many a good plan and undertaking earnestly entered upon in the past which has seemingly come to naught, and though we may be ready and glad to reenlist for the cause of this and that winsome ideal, we are likely to do so with more misgiving and less joy than becomes a time of good decision, and for the reason that past defeats are permitted to augur the repetition of such experience, the unhappy outcome of former undertakings are allowed to count as lessening the likelihood of overcoming in the tomorrow-trials of our faith and strength.

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"GIVE, AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO YOU"

John B. Willis

Despite all the joys and pleasures of the Christmastime, most sensitive people soon come to realize that its giving is far from ideal.