Editorials

TWENTIETH CENTURY MAGAZINE

Editor

Our readers will be interested to note that, beginning with the February number, the Twentieth Century Magazine is to publish a series of articles on the life and work of Mrs.

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LOVE'S MINISTRY

John B. Willis

One's experience with men leads him speedily to divide them into two classes, those who are ever planning to get and those who are ever planning to give.

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"LIVES OF GREAT MEN"

Annie M. Knott

It is scarcely possible to overestimate the influence upon others of the records of great characters, whether these records are found in Holy Writ or in secular history.

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Self-extenuating excuses never seem more out of keeping than when offered by Christian apologists, in an attempted justification of those educated opinions which are at variance with the plain statements of the Master and which are fully accounted for by the abiding disposition of mortal thought to adjust its philosophy to its acquired habits.

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THE DEMANDS OF TRUTH

Annie M. Knott

There are many who have a peculiar and quite unwarranted concept of Christ Jesus' moral teachings.

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WHEREFORE?

MARY BAKER EDDY

Our faithful laborers in the field of Science have been told, through the alert editor-in-chief of the Christian Science Sentinel and Journal, that "Mrs.

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OBEY THE LAW

Mary Baker Eddy

The following, from the pen of the Rev.

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"GUARD THE LIPS"

Annie M. Knott

The psalmist prayed, "Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips," and surely without divine aid no mortal can avoid doing himself harm through unguarded utterance.

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PREJUDGMENT

John B. Willis

When one thinks of the unspeakable wrong which in all the ages has attended judgments that have been formed and expressed "without due examination," he no longer wonders at the abrupt, unqualified finality of the ninth commandment.

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A LIVING FAITH

Archibald McLellan

The one great question in which Christian Scientists are supremely interested, the one which should interest every professed follower of the Master, the one which, however long delayed or ignored, comes home at last to every thoughtful man and woman with the sharp thrust of fear or despair, is the one which was asked of Paul and Silas by the Roman jailer; namely, "What must I do to be saved?

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THE REDEMPTIVE IDEA

John B. Willis

Nothing becomes more manifest, as one studies the Master's life, than that from the beginning he was entirely sure of the adequacy of the remedy he offered for the healing of the ills of humanity, and that the impress of his words and works upon the open-minded about him was such as to beget in them the same positive assurance.

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ILLUMINATION

Annie M. Knott

All through the Scriptures light is presented as a symbol of the divine manifestation, from the flat, "Let there be light," up to the statement in the Apocalypse that the city of God had no need of sun or moon, "for the glory of God did lighten it.