Editorials

Editorial

A SOLEMN OBLIGATION

Annie M. Knott

It is required of the teachers in our Christian Science Sunday Schools to teach all the pupils under their care the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation as found in Science and Health.
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READERS OF BRANCH CHURCHES

Archibald McLellan

There is a question of "supply" which seems to confront many branch churches when it comes to the choice of those who shall fill the important office of Readers, and within the last few weeks there have come to us from various parts of the field requests to "say something in the Sentinel" on this particular phase of the problem.
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THE DERELICT

John B. Willis

We had passed the doldrums with their characteristic rain and fog and fluffy winds, and had entered the southeast trades, a region of sunny seas and steady sails, well named "The Sailor's Delight.
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PLENITUDE VS. POVERTY

Annie M. Knott

A careful study of the Bible reveals a widely different concept of poverty and riches than that popularly entertained, a truly metaphysical sense of these terms and others related to them, indicating mental rather than material conditions.
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THE KINGDOM WITHIN

Archibald McLellan

One cannot progress very far in the investigation and study of Christian Science without perceiving how closely it adheres in its teaching and demonstration to the truth the Master sought to convey to the self-seeking Pharisees, when they demanded of him the time the "kingdom of God" of which he had spoken should come.
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"THE POWER, AND THE GLORY."

Annie M. Knott

All religious teaching has emphasized the power of God, even to the extent of what has been termed "special intervention" in the affairs of men, but it remained for the Discoverer of Christian Science to make the startling statement that there is in reality no other power than the divine, and that this power is absolutely good.
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"THE EXACTIONS OF SCIENCE."

John B. Willis

There is nothing so uncompromising as the truth, which never sways in the slightest degree from the standard of its own integrity.
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THE ORGANIZATION OF BRANCH CHURCHES

Archibald McLellan

Primarily a Church of Christ, Scientist, stands for the promulgation of Christ's Christianity,—the preaching of the Word, and the healing of the sick through the demonstration of the teachings of the Master, whose "great commission" to his disciples is the authority and the standard for his followers in all ages.
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THE DIVINE NEARNESS

John B. Willis

We were visiting a normal school, and had observed here and there blackboard sketches which were illustrative of the varied topics of study, and which clearly betrayed the touch of an artist.
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THE EVERLASTING COVENANT

Annie M. Knott

In the fiftieth chapter of the prophecy of Jeremiah we read that in the latter days people would seek after God with their whole heart, and say, "Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
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THE TEST OF ENDURANCE

Archibald McLellan

That there is a steady increase in the number of branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, and in the number of those who attend our services, is well exemplified in a press despatch from Chicago which we print in another column.
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"CHILDREN OF THE RESURRECTION."

Annie M. Knott

In the brief period between the raising of Lazarus by Christ Jesus and his own crucifixion, he gave some of his most vital teachings, the truth of which had already been proved in his mighty works.