Editorials

THE APPEAL TO REASON

John B. Willis

The familiar saying that a given statement is reasonable may mean very much or very little.

"TEACH US TO PRAY"

Annie M. Knott

Students of Christian Science soon learn that in order to reach the highest results they must change their methods of thinking and doing.

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In the early experience of most Christian Scientists there comes a time when they are so wonderfully impressed with the healing work that is being done for them and for others,—when they awaken to the realization that the power of Truth to heal is available today as it was in the time of the Master and his disciples,—that they simply bubble over with enthusiasm in their happiness over this new-found faith, and are eager to right every seemingly wrong condition in health or in morals among their friends, believing that all there is to do in order to accomplish this is to tell them of what they have themselves seen and heard.

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MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE

Editor

Munsey's Magazine announces for its April number an article entitled "The Girlhood Letters of Mary Baker Eddy," together with a poem, hitherto unpublished, written by the great Leader in her school-days.

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"LEARN OF ME."

Annie M. Knott

A great thinker has said that "few men know how to live," and although this is a self-evident truth, there are perhaps not many who would be willing to apply it to themselves.

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"AS NEWBORN BABES."

John B. Willis

Among the most distinctive features of the little child are its innocency and its instinct.

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THE SIMPLE GOSPEL

Archibald McLellan

The record of the three years of Jesus' public ministry, as it is given in the four Gospels, is full of the accounts of his healing of the sick, and we get a glimpse of the real magnitude of his labors through John, who closes his account with the statement that if all the things which Jesus did should be written, "even the world itself could not contain the books.

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"THE POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE."

John B. Willis

In exalting the priesthood of Christ Jesus, the writer of the epistle to the Hebrews notes its superiority to every ecclesiastical or hereditary rank and authority, in that it manifests "the power of an endless life.

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AN ARTICLE OF FAITH

Annie M. Knott

In that wonderful story of the healing of a blind man, given in the ninth chapter of John, Jesus asked the man, soon after his healing, "Dost thou believe on the Son of God?

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A PRACTICAL RELIGION

Archibald McLellan

Much has been said and written by people quite outside the ranks of Christian Science, in commendation of the optimism and serenity of the followers of this teaching, as shown in their bearing and in their disposition; and to a large degree this commendation has been deserved, although Christian Scientists themselves have been more or less unconscious of the "outward appearance" which has attracted the attention of their friends.

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GROWTH

Annie M. Knott

Growth has very fittingly been described as one of the elements of power, and in Science and Health.

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LIGHT AFTER DARKNESS

John B. Willis

Among the many ineffaceable memories which the visitor to the Vatican galleries is destined to bring away with him is that of "The Sleeping Ariadne," an antique marble so exquisitely modeled, so instinct with glorious art, as to be universally regarded as the product of a master hand.